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Olivier Birgel joins BI-SAM as Business Development Director Europe
BI-SAM, the company behind B-One, the global award winning data management, performance and risk attribution, GIPS composites administration and client reporting solution, announced the appointment of Olivier Birgel as Business Development Director Europe. With 15 years of experience within the Asset Management industry, Olivier has been responsible for the development of business in several territories…
State Street Launches Mobile App for iPad
State Street, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced a new mobile application for the iPad, State Street Springboard, which will be available in the Apple App Store this fall. State Street Springboard allows clients to view essential portfolio information that is specifically designed for mobile users and…
Standardisation of Issuer Announcements and Key Dates are Central to Tackling Corporate Actions Efficiency, Says AFME’s Frey
The two key success factors to effectively tackling the basic inefficiencies of the corporate actions space are ensuring that issuer announcements are submitted in a standardised format and that corporate actions events are compliant with key dates and these are in the correct sequence, said Werner Frey, managing director of the Association for Financial Markets…
State Street Global Advisors Announces Key Appointments to Fixed Income Leadership Team
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street today announced the appointment of Bill Street as global head of Fixed Income Alpha Strategies, reporting to Kevin Anderson, global chief investment officer for Fixed Income and Currency. Street, who is based in London, was previously co-head of Active Fixed Income, alongside William…
Pricing Partners Delivers Models for Stochastic Dividends
Pricing Partners announced today that its derivatives pricing library, Price-it library, now contains models for stochastic dividends. Products on dividends, like options on non accrued Euro Stoxx 50 dividends, were actively promoted by Eurex for the two consecutive years. Indeed, the current crisis pushed derivatives towards simplicity in terms of payoff, meanwhile, introduced new underlyings….
BNY Mellon Extends Hedge Fund Middle Office Platform to North America and Asia
BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has announced a global expansion of its middle office outsourcing service for hedge funds, extending what was largely a Europe-only offering and rolling it out to select clients and prospects in North America and Asia. Building on its Dublin-based operation over the past 12…
Deutsche Börse Introduces New Benchmark for Interest Rate Swaps
Deutsche Börse – Market Data & Analytics is expanding its range of information products with “Eurex ICAP Swap Spreads”. The new data product, which aims to serve as a neutral benchmark for Euro interest rate swaps, was developed jointly with interdealer broker ICAP. Eurex ICAP Swap Spreads provides yield spreads between exchange-traded futures and interest…
Safer Data Handling Tops Boardroom Agenda In The Age Of The Mobile Device
Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance, announced today that it is launching BoardLink, a secure portal for the online exchange and execution of board business, such as compiling and sharing board books, to companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Companies around the globe face increasing challenges when it comes to handling sensitive data,…
LCH.Clearnet Appoints Susan Milligan as Head of US Public Affairs
LCH.Clearnet has appointed Susan Milligan head of US public affairs. Based in Washington D.C., Susan will be responsible for representing LCH.Clearnet Group with the US Congress and the federal agencies and will liaise with the US media. Susan joins LCH.Clearnet from the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), where she managed federal government relations and all corporate…
New Research Points to Systemic Failure of Spreadsheet Risk Management Within UK Organisations
A new survey* from ClusterSeven, an international provider of strategic spreadsheet and data management software, shows that 56.5% of spreadsheet users have never received formal training on the spreadsheet package they use. Worryingly, 47% have never even been offered spreadsheet training. Of those surveyed by ClusterSeven, 72% admitted that no internal department checks their spreadsheets…