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Penson Futures Names Steve Leone Chief Operating Officer
Penson Futures, a member of the Penson Worldwide group of companies and a Futures Commission Merchant that provides execution and clearing services on the world’s major exchanges, announced today that it has named Steve Leone as Chief Operating Officer (COO), a new position. As COO, Mr. Leone will have responsibilities over Global Clearing, Information Technology,…
Thomson Reuters Markets: Biff, Bang, Pow(ell)
No sooner had the ink dried – metaphorically speaking – on Shanker Ramamurthy’s appointment as head of Thomson Reuters Markets’ Sales & Trading group, than news wafted its way across the Atlantic of Roseann Palmieri’s departure as head of Enterprise content. Palmieri, you’ll remember, was hired as part of Thomson Reuters’ drive to bring those…
How Buying Fixnetix Is Truly a Risky Business
Hot on the heels of Colt’s protracted courtship of MarketPrizm comes yet another corporate action in our beloved low-latency infrastructure segment. This one caught us by surprise, but not because it was unexpected. It’s been expected for so long that we’d forgotten about it, to be honest. That Fixnetix was ‘for sale’ has been a…
High Volume, Low Anxiety
In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, approximately 10,000 equity orders and quotes will be sent to the main European equity venues. Approximately 75% of those messages, according to the Financial Times, will be high-frequency trades: short-term positions held for a period of milliseconds or, at most, seconds, and every one…
Leading Global Insurance Company Selects XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced today that it has signed a new client, a leading global Insurance company, to implement the XSP v5 platform for automated global Corporate Actions processing. This new client has licensed the XSP Data Management & Scrubbing module, Web-based eTRAN module for automated notifications, response…
Brown Brothers Harriman Names Scott McLaren Head of Relationship Management and Sales for Asia
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) announced today that it has hired Scott McLaren as Head of Relationship Management and Sales for Asia to strengthen its services and business development in the region. In his new position, Mr. McLaren reports to Bill Rosensweig, Managing Director for Brown Brothers Harriman (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr. McLaren joins BBH from…
Xtrakter and SIX Telekurs Agree to Expand Pricing Data
Xtrakter, a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, welcomes SIX Telekurs as the first data vendor to access Xtrakter’s Mark-to-Market valuation service, known as XM2M. SIX Telekurs clients now have pricing data on over 45,000 domestic and international fixed-income instruments, including illiquid instruments such as asset-backed securities. Bid and…
Thomson Reuters Delivers Transparency to Collateralised Loans Market with Launch of LPC Collateral
Thomson Reuters today announced that it has launched LPC Collateral, a data and analysis-driven solution designed to dramatically improve transparency in the Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) market. The product links Thomson Reuters market-leading loan end-of-day data to the underlying assets held in CLO portfolios to provide powerful, personalized insight and analysis to CLO traders and…
XSP Promotes John Kehoe to Managing Director of Global Sales and Account Relationship Management
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced the promotion of John Kehoe to Managing Director of Global Sales and Account Relationship Management. “John has been a key part of our success and we are delighted to promote him to Managing Director,” said, Brendan P. Farrell, Jr., Chief Executive Officer at XSP….
Desjardins Implements Eagle’s Investment Accounting and Data Management Solutions
Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, today announced that Desjardins Asset Management, the investment management specialist of Desjardins Group, the leading cooperative financial group in Canada and the sixth largest in the world, has implemented its data management solutions on Eagle ACCESSSM for its…