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AlixPartners Appoint Rob Hornby as Managing Director
AlixPartners, the global business advisory firm, has appointed Rob Hornby as Managing Director. Hornby was formerly CIO of Old Mutual Wealth Management Group. Stefano Aversa, co-President and head of AlixPartners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said, “Companies who are undergoing major, fast-paced changes look at ways technology can help solving their business problems,…
Teradata’s Krishna Champions Data and IT Focused Amendments to OFR’s Structure, Talks up Big Data
Data warehousing solution vendor Teradata has thrown its hat into the ring to act as a key technology partner to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) and Dilip Krishna, vice president of financial services at the vendor, testified during last week’s government organised roundtable on systemic risk about the benefits of a big data…
Credit Suisse Strengthens Asia Pacific Global Markets Solutions Group Management And China Investment Banking Coverage
Credit Suisse today announced the appointments of Carl Bautista, Mervyn Chow and George Pavey as Co-heads of its Global Markets Solutions Group (GMSG) for Asia Pacific and the appointment of Zeth Hung as Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking Department and GMSG for Greater China. The appointments, announced today by Vikram Malhotra and Helman Sitohang,…
Misra Exits Algo Technologies
According to an email he circulated earlier today, Hirander Misra has resigned as CEO of Algo Technologies, a vendor of low-latency data management and connectivity, and matching engines. Misra gave no reason for the resignation, but said he would remain a board director and shareholder in the company. As for his immediate future, Misra said…
Broadridge and CTI Form Strategic Alliance to Provide Advanced Tax Reporting and Compliance Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions and Compliance Technologies International (CTI) jointly announce that they have entered into a partnership that integrates Broadridge’s Tax Managed Services (TMS) with CTI’s Tax Withholding software. This alliance offers broker-dealers comprehensive tax reporting and compliance capabilities designed to meet the increasingly complex tax processing and withholding needs of financial services firms. Through…
Serious Scientific Task Awaits the OFR and FSOC, Says Systemic Risk Focused Academic Liechty
As well as the data standardisation challenge, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) also face the “significant scientific task” of understanding how to use this data, according to academic John Liechty, professor of marketing and statistics at Smeal College of Business for Penn State University and director for…
Black Swan Author Taleb Highlights the Potential Negative Side Effects of the OFR and Centralised Risk Management
By taking a naïve view of how to measure risk in an unpredictable market environment, the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) could potentially carry on the negative side effects of the financial crisis, according to epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is most famous for his book on unpredictability The Black Swan. Speaking as a…
OFR’s Ref Data Could be a Cyber Attack Target, Warns Sans Institute’s Paller
As well as coming under attack for its central theory of collecting data for systemic risk analysis during a government organised roundtable last week (see more on which here), the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) also came under fire for the potential information security threat it could pose. Alan Paller, founder and research director…
New Chairman of the ABFA
The Asset Based Finance Association has announced the appointment of its new chairman, John Bevan, head of Trade and Working Capital UK & Ireland at Barclays Corporate. John has worked in the invoice finance industry for the past 16 years and been at Barclays Corporate since 2007 where he is responsible for growing the trade…
Deutsche Bank’s Scott and Northern Trust’s Chapman Highlight the Regulatory Deluge Facing Ops Teams in 2012
There are so many regulations facing the corporate actions and securities operations sector that back office teams may be hard pushed to get on with their day job, said Justin Chapman, global head of industry management, operations and technology at Northern Trust, at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London. Nick Scott, managing director and…