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State Street Appoints Finbarr Downing as New Head of Compliance for State Street International Ireland
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced the appointment of Finbarr Downing to head of compliance for State Street International Ireland. Finbarr joins State Street from Northern Trust where he served as head of fund and regulatory compliance. As head of compliance for State Street’s…
SEC Enforcement Division Produces Record Results in Safeguarding Investors and Markets
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the agency filed a record 735 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ended September 30. This record number includes many cases involving highly complex products, transactions, and market practices, including those related to the financial crisis as well as insider trading by market professionals. “We continue…
Leading Russian Investment Bank, VTB Capital, Selects Quantifi for OTC Analytics, Pricing and Portfolio Valuation
Quantifi, a leading provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global OTC markets, today announced that VTB Capital has licensed Quantifi XL as their front-office tool for OTC analytics, pricing and portfolio valuation. VTB Capital, the investment business of VTB Group, is a leader in global investment banking. VTB Capital offers a…
Talend’s New Community Coders Program Highlights Vendor’s Open Source Contributions
Talend , a global open source software leader, today announced the Community Coders Program, an initiative to provide a single source of information on all contributions made by Talend to open source community projects. Launched at ApacheCon North America 2011, the program allows community members and contributors to engage and discuss their work on open…
Virginie’s Blog – Making Threats and Opportunities
This week’s FIMA conference in London as usual saw industry practitioners discussing their recurring bugbears – IP rights within the vendor community, a lack of budget for more strategic data management projects (outside of those tied to compliance) and coping with the cost cutting exercises sweeping the financial services community – but it also involved…
GoldenSource’s Engdahl Elaborates on M&G Investments’ Platform Upgrade
Earlier this week, GoldenSource indicated that longstanding client M&G Investments has upgraded its implementation of the EDM vendor’s platform. Steve Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy at the vendor, explains how the upgrade fitted into M&G’s Solvency II compliance preparations. The European asset management firm first bought the GoldenSource solution back in 2003 in…
Ahead of the Low-Latency Summit, Here’s Some Background Reading
Unless you’ve been living on Mars (and sadly it looks like a Russian space probe will not be visiting soon), then you’ll know that next Thursday I am hosting the Low-Latency Summit in New York City. If you are in fact a Mars resident, then you’ve just a few days to register online (it closes…
Interactive Data Nabs Doe for Trading Solutions
While it’s not exactly shouting about it, Interactive Data Corp.’s 3rd quarter financial results announcement noted that Emmanuel Doe has joined the company to run its Trading Solutions business. Until recently, Doe was a global business manager at Thomson Reuters, focusing on high frequency trading. At Interactive Data – which he joined at the end…
FIA Replay: Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?
A few weeks ago, I was in Chicago for the FIA Expo, and the nice people at CFN Services asked me to moderate a panel on “Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?” Of course, I said yes. For those wondering, event driven trading means trading on news, as opposed to market prices that…
M&G Upgrades GoldenSource EDM Platform
M&G Investments (M&G), one of Europe’s leading investment managers with £200 billion of assets under management, completed an upgrade to GoldenSource EDM version 8 in May 2011. Along with the upgrade, M&G extended GoldenSource’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform to utilize the derivatives capabilities, doubling instrument volumes and delivering trusted, consistent information to power key…