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Progress Made, But More Needed For Difficult, Dull, Deadly CAs
Difficult, dull and deadly – that was how corporate actions were described at a breakfast seminar held by CityCompass earlier this month. Of course, we don’t necessarily agree with the full statement, but difficult they certainly can be. Progress is being made, however, towards the automation of corporate actions processing, reported participants of the event….
London Exchange Engages Firms In Counterparty Data Utility Pilot
The market for counterparty data solutions is heating up, as the London Stock Exchange becomes latest in a slew of firms becoming active in the space. The Exchange is working with six participating financial institutions for an upcoming pilot of a counterparty data utility. Says the exchange’s head of reference data, Mark Husler, “We are…
EUSD: Are You Ready? By Gary Wright, MSI, Managing Director, CityCompass Research
For those not quite up to speed, EUSD stands for the European Union Savings Directive and it impacts just about all financial services firms who act as collecting or paying agents in capital markets within the European Union. These paying agents – including banks, building societies, corporations issuing bonds that pay interest on certain instruments…
GoldenSource Hires Zill From CheckFree
GoldenSource – formerly known as Financial Technologies Inc (FTI) – has hired Mark Zill as executive vice president, with responsibilities including leadership and development of software operations for product management and development, customer care and international operations. Zill, based in New York. was previously with CheckFree Financial and Compliance Solutions through its acquisition of HelioGraph…
Perry Moves on From BearingPoint
After a brief stint at BearingPoint, Derek Perry has left to pursue other opportunities. Perry joined BearingPoint last year from Capco where he worked on reference data services.
Capco Adds Chelliah, Bennett to Team
Capco has brought onboard two new executives. Gopi Chelliah has been named partner and executive vice president, business process outsourcing and sourcing development, based in London. He will also be a key member of Capco’s Executive Management Committee and the Capco Transformation client services team. Chelliah joins from Deutsche Bank where he was managing director,…
Fortis Restructuring Sees Deschênes Named CIO
As part of Belgium-based Fortis’ restructuring, Alain Deschênes has been appointed chief information officer, responsible for providing vision, strategy, leadership and management to information systems and technology across Fortis’ banking and insurance operations. He will report to Herman Verwilst, deputy CEO and chief operating officer. Joining his team is Jean-Pierre Cardinael as chief technology officer,…
Shipperlee Rejoins S&P as European MD for Risk Solutions
Stuart Shipperlee is rejoining Standard & Poor’s as its new European managing director for the Risk Solutions division, based in London. Shipperlee, who will report to Gary Kearns, global leader for Credit Risk Services, was previously managing director of European operations for U.S. insurance ratings agency AM Best, and before that spent 10 years at…
Kennedy, Leichsenring, Join GoldenSource in Newly Created Roles
Paul Kennedy, formerly head of content and news at Reuters, and Peter Leichsenring, previously director alliances and channels financial services at Tibco Software, have both joined the recently renamed GoldenSource (known before as Financial Technologies Inc. FTI). Both join in newly created roles. Kennedy has been named vice president of product management based in London….
XcitekSolutionsPlus Hires CA Specialist Thoma for Client Services
XcitekSolutionsPlus last month hired Steve Thoma as senior client administrator within the client services team in Birmingham, AL., to provide production support and implementation of XSP within North America. Thoma was previously corporate action reorganization manager at Fifth Third Bank, and corporate action specialist at Bank One Trust. Further expansion in Birmingham, New York and…