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Will NYSE Tussle Turn NASD?

Keeping abreast of the to’ing and fro’ing between the various entities vying for control of NYSE Euronext has added a certain piquancy to simultaneously hosting a panel discussion on Optimising Latency in a Fragmented World at our Business & Technology of Low Latency Trading events this month in London and New York. Assessing the connectivity…

RBC Dexia Strengthens Client Relations in Switzerland With New Director

RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Corinne Vitte as director of relationship management in Switzerland, starting 2 May 2011. Vitte will further strengthen RBC Dexia’s relationships with its existing client base in Switzerland and Luxembourg, adding to the appointment of Andreas Schmid to a similar role earlier this year. She will report to Marco Siero,…

Interactive Data’s Williams Heads to Rival SIX Telekurs for Senior US Sales Role

Following the post-acquisition management shake-up at Interactive Data, former president of institutional sales Cort Williams has jumped ship to join data vendor rival SIX Telekurs as its new executive vice president for sales and business development in the Americas region. Williams, who has been with Interactive Data since 1996, will focus on direct and redistributor…

IMS Group Boosts Consultancy Practice

The IMS Group (IMS), a provider of global regulatory compliance consulting and integrated business support to the asset management and securities industry, has further bolstered its consultancy offering with the hires of Jonathan Mott, Oksana Selezneva and Claire Carpenter. IMS has seen a year of rapid growth, including the acquisition of compliance consultancy MMS in…

Breaking News: Ex-Morgan Stanley Economist Berner Takes Over US Treasury and OFR Role from Alexander

Following on from the recent departure of Lewis Alexander from the US Treasury, the regulator has appointed former Morgan Stanley chief economist Richard Berner to take over Alexander’s role as advisor on domestic financial matters to Treasury secretary Tim Geithner. A key part of this job is helping the Treasury to establish the new Office…

A Low Latency Cocktail from The Brewery

Last week, I chaired A-Team’s first Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading event – #BTLLT for the twittersphere – at The Brewery (a former Whitbread Brewery, it’s now an established events venue), and these are a few geeky highlights from my day. Starting with the toy I wanted for Easter … it’s called RoboTrader from…

Euroclear’s Kuhnel on ANNA’s Potential as a Registration Authority, What to Expect this Year on Legal Entity IDs

As elaborated upon by WMDatenservice’s Markus Heer earlier this year, the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is pitching itself as a suitable registration authority for the new legal entity identification (LEI) standard underlying the US Office of Financial Research (OFR). Dan Kuhnel, chairman of ANNA and director for primary markets and international fixed income…

Data Quality on the Brain

The last thing I expected to hear during a panel on low latency technology deployment at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (catchily dubbed BTLLT by fellow A-Teamers) conference in London was speakers talking about reference data quality. But that’s what happened. Everywhere I go people are talking about data quality. They might…

Would Google Really Buy Thomson Reuters Markets?

The idea that Google would be interested in – and is indeed seeking to – acquire Thomson Reuters Markets first came to my attention at the London Stock Exchange, oddly enough. I was there for a function, and after a panel discussion about the future of the exchange marketplace, I got chatting with a gentleman…

Princeton Financial Systems appoints Christian Farber as Head of Global Sales and Marketing

Princeton Financial Systems (PFS), a provider of investment accounting, investment compliance, data management, performance measurement, and reporting solutions to the global investment industry, today announced that it has appointed Christian Farber as senior vice president and head of global sales and marketing. “PFS has the key elements that I was seeking in a company: people,…