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Swift Sanctions Screening Service Falls Below Big Bank Grade
Swift’s sanctions screening service, which is due to go live in December this year, failed to win interest from large financial services organisations when first mooted and has instead been geared towards small and medium sized banks. Brigitte De Wilde, head of anti-money laundering and sanctions for Swift, explains to Reference Data Review that a study of…
Andrew’s Blog – Thomson Reuters Finally Fills S&T Top Slot
Filling a longstanding void at the top of its Sales & Trading business unit, Thomson Reuters has named former IBM general manager for banking and financial markets Shanker Ramamurthy as president, Sales & Trading, effective June 20. The top slot at Thomson Reuters’ largest operating unit, with revenues of $3.5 billion and 2,700 staff, had…
With New Switches, Cisco Weaves a Low-Latency Trading Fabric
Moving up the value chain from networking provider to low-latency solutions partner, Cisco Systems will tomorrow announce its “High-Performance Trading Fabric” initiative, which provides reference architectures for “each step of an automated trade” for financial markets participants. Cisco’s architectures combine networking, compute and storage, and are based on the company’s recently introduced Nexus 3064 and…
Thomson Reuters Finally Fills S&T Top Slot
Filling a longstanding void at the top of its Sales & Trading business unit, Thomson Reuters has named former IBM general manager for banking and financial markets Shanker Ramamurthy as president, Sales & Trading, effective June 20. The top slot at Thomson Reuters’ largest operating unit, with revenues of $3.5 billion and 2,700 staff, had…
SIX Telekurs Continues to Expand its Evaluated Pricing Team
SIX Telekurs continues to build up its core team of experts to further expand its Evaluated Pricing. The business unit has brought five new members on board in the last few months to both develop the service further, and to respond to its popularity amongst customers. SIX Telekurs has expanded its Evaluated Pricing team in…
Netik Acquires CorrectNet
Netik LLC, a Symphony Technology Group (STG) portfolio company and leading global financial information management provider, announced today the acquisition of CorrectNet, the market leader in managed client communications and delivery. The union of CorrectNet with Netik’s information management products and services is highly complementary and unique to the market place. STG provided the capital…
SunGard Announces Chief Executive Officer Transition
SunGard, one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies, today announced that Russell Fradin will succeed Cristóbal Conde as SunGard’s chief executive officer on May 31, 2011. Mr. Fradin will also become a member of SunGard’s Board of Directors. Mr. Fradin joins SunGard after serving as chairman and chief executive officer of Aon…
State Street Appoints Global Head of Sales for Alternative Investment Solutions Business
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, announced today that it has appointed Maria Cantillon as global head of sales for State Street’s Alternative Investment Solutions business. Based in London, Cantillon, reports to Scott FitzGerald, head of sales for State Street’s Global Services Americas business. Cantillon was…
Schroders Builds Out its Global Investment Management & Research Platform
Schroders is today announcing the appointment of Kate Jones as Head of Investment Services, taking investment responsibility for developing the next generation global investment operating platform. Kate joins from BlackRock where she was Head of Structured Solutions Portfolio Management for Europe. In this capacity, she was responsible for Portfolio Management of Liability Driven Investment, Asset…
EFAMA Calls on the EU Commission to Protect European Data Users in the ISIN Case and Finds S&P’s Commitments Insufficient
Today, the European Commission published Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) commitments to settle the ISIN dispute pending before the Commission since 2008. The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) believes that the complainants primary goal is now within reach, this is that the use of ISINs issued by S&P to end users in Europe becomes…