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State Street Appoints Craig Butterworth to Head of Fixed Income Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced the appointment of Craig Butterworth to head of fixed income sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Butterworth will lead State Street Global Market’s fixed income sales team and will be responsible for expanding its rates business with…
Hitchon of Deutsche Bank Named to DTCC Board
Jonathan Hitchon, co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Prime Finance business, has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Hitchon was elected to the board replacing Robert Kaplan of State Street Bank and Trust, whose term had expired. All other members of the board were reelected, except for…
Stuffed with Standards
Last week witnessed the continuing evolution of a new standard for the identification of legal entities across the financial markets with the publication of the Sifma led coalition of associations’ feedback on the subject to the Office of Financial Research (OFR). But will it be just another standard to add to the many that the…
Profidata Group: Gunther Glabbatz New Regional Director for Germany and Austria
Profidata Group, a provider of investment and wealth management software, has announced the hire of Gunther Glabbatz. Glabbatz will take responsibility for business development in Germany and Austria. Prior to joining Profidata, Glabbatz held a similar role at SimCorp. Glabbatz has a broad experience with IT-implementation projects in the asset management, banking and insurance business….
Credit Suisse Hires Roger Lehman as Head of CMBS Research
Credit Suisse has hired Roger Lehman as managing director and head of Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Research, responsible for research and analysis that will support the bank’s re-entry into CMBS origination as well as its secondary trading desk. He will report to Dale Westhoff, global head of Securitized Products Research, and will join the Credit…
Hudson Bay Capital’s Black Discusses Bloomberg Vault Implementation, Cost Saving Benefits of Cloud-Based Data Storage
The expanded registration requirements under Dodd Frank for firms that once fell under exemptions have resulted in many more firms being compelled to invest in data storage solutions in order to ease the data retrieval process and keep costs down. One such firm is buy side firm Hudson Bay Capital Management, which has recently rolled out…
Seeing Colt Through a Different ‘Prizm
While it may not be the biggest transaction, Colt’s agreement to acquire a majority stake in MarketPrizm, which finally materialised this week after months of speculation, gives the UK telecom services provider some teeth with which it hopes to bite off a larger chunk of the trading connectivity marketplace. No cash will change hands as…
Swift Selects Sword FircoSoft to Support New Centralised Sanctions Screening Service
Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, has selected Sword FircoSoft to provide components of its new centralised Sanctions Screening service. Economic sanctions are growing in importance as a tool to fight financial crime. As a consequence, complying with evolving sanctions regulations and frequently updated lists…
Financial Industry Trade Associations Coalition Releases Framework for a Global Legal Entity Identifier System
A coalition of financial-services trade associations today released a comprehensive set of requirements for establishing a legal entity identifier (LEI) system to aid regulators and industry in monitoring systemic risk. The Trade Associations note that the requirements document released today is meant to be an evolving solution that will be refined as others participate in…
Sifma Led Financial Association Coalition Provides OFR with a Wish List for the LEI, Sets 30 May Deadline
The 13 strong, Sifma led coalition of industry associations involved in providing feedback to the regulatory community regarding the establishment of a new global legal entity identification standard has finally produced its comprehensive list of requirements for the ID. The group has also set a deadline of the end of this month (30 May) for…