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BNY Mellon Asset Servicing appoints Sue Baines as Head of Sales for EMEA
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has announced the appointment of Sue Baines as head of sales for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Baines will have responsibility for asset servicing sales and marketing across the EMEA region. She will be based in London, reporting to Frank Froud, head of EMEA for the Asset Servicing business. Baines…
SIX Telekurs Partners with Inforex to Increase its Market Presence in Greece
SIX Telekurs and Inforex, an official data vendor of the Athens Stock Exchange, have signed an agreement to pursue a common growth strategy in the Greek market. The agreement enables Inforex to offer international financial market data drawn from the products and the unique database of SIX Telekurs. Elena Pateropoulou, managing director of Inforex, comments,…
Xenomorph Extends Local Technical Support Capability in Asia Pacific
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solution provider to global financial institutions, extends local technical support capability to Australia and the Asia Pacific time zone with the relocation of two senior employees from the UK to Australia. Chris Budgen, chief technical architect and founding director, and Irina Taran, senior developer, have moved to Melbourne and…
Broadridge Achieves a Record Year in 2010 for Fixed Income Processing Platform Implementations
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that 2010 was a record year for client implementations of its fixed income securities processing platform. Eleven new banks and brokerage firms chose Broadridge because of the expansiveness of its fixed income processing platform, the speed and efficiency with which Broadridge brings clients onto the system, and its enhanced data…
Regulators Should Begin Work With the Data and Formats Already Being Reported, Says ICFR’s Ridpath
A lot has been said on the subject of systemic risk monitoring and the collection of macroprudential data over the last year or so (just look at the developments in the US around the Office of Financial Research for proof) and the International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) is aiming to play its part in…
US Continues to Drag its Heels with Regards to a Decision on the Move to IFRS
In spite of the noises made last year by US regulators with regards to moving towards adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the US regulatory community has thus far failed to commit to a timeline for adoption or even indicate whether it is likely to move to the international accounting standards at all. In June…
DTCC’s MD of Corp Comms Goldstein Makes His Exit
After nearly 20 years with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) communications team, current managing director of corporate communications and public affairs Stuart Goldstein is due to depart for pastures unknown. Goldstein’s departure was announced in a recent intra-company memo and comes at a time when DTCC is raising its public profile in order…
Wall Street FPGA Applies Hardware Acceleration to FIX
Well, FIX Cancel messages, to be precise. A just-released white paper from Wall Street FPGA – a company whose focus is pretty self explanatory from its name – details how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (or FPGAs) can be used along with the open source QuickFIX engine to rapidly fire off cancel messages to matching engines….
Profidata Group Opens London Office
Profidata Group, a provider of investment and wealth management systems, has expanded its operations by opening a London office to serve the UK and Ireland region. This expansion comes at a time of sustained growth for the company. Christian Widmer, CEO of Profidata Group, said: “As well as growing our business across Northern Europe we…
Information Mosaic Americas Hires Sigrid Wiley As Product Specialist
Information Mosaic, a post-trade automation solutions vendor, announced today that it has hired Sigrid Wiley as a product specialist for the Americas region. In this role, Wiley will perform business analysis and consulting tasks, as well as deliver pre-sales support to the Americas sales team. She will also provide input to regional product direction. Wiley…