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SEC Division of Investment Management Names Robert Plaze as Deputy Director and Diane Blizzard as Managing Executive
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Robert E. Plaze has been named Deputy Director in the Division of Investment Management and Diane C. Blizzard has been named Managing Executive of the Division. As Deputy Director, Mr. Plaze will play an integral role in the Division’s regulatory program under the Investment Company and Investment…
Broadridge Strengthens Team as Market Demand to Streamline Processing Operations Increases
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced the appointment of two new executives to expand and grow its business in line with industry demand. As financial services firms are increasingly looking for solutions which can streamline processing operations and offer faster routes to market, Broadridge has hired Simon Bennett as Managing Director, Sales, for Broadridge City Networks…
Princeton Financial Systems Announces Christian Kuechler as Managing Director
Princeton Financial Systems announced that Christian Küchler has taken over the role of the Managing Director. Christian Küchler, who has been working with the company for eleven years, will now have responsibility for Professional Services, Sales and Marketing activities within Princeton Financial Systems GmbH. He will work together with Linda Kane who is Managing Director…
UK FSA Highlights “Serious Weaknesses” Within Firms’ AML and Customer Data Management Practices
As part of its crackdown on the industry’s systems and controls around anti-money laundering (AML) data, especially for politically exposed persons (PEPs), which it stepped up last year, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has released the findings of a survey of these practices across the industry that highlights “serious weaknesses” in “many” firms. The…
Andrew’s Blog – The Problem with Standards?
Every few years I feel the compulsion to write a rant – known these days as a blog – about the problem with standards, and in particular standards relating to financial information. Usually, this is sparked by some new initiative to get competing vendors to live together peacefully so the marketplace can reap the benefits…
EFETnet’s and DTCC Selected by Industry to Develop Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository
EFETnet and DTCC Deriv/SERV (DTCC), announced that the two at-cost, user governed industry cooperatives are collaborating with market participants in the commodities industry to establish a global Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository. The proposed new repository, which will be domiciled in Europe and jointly owned by DTCC and EFETnet, follows EFETnet and DTCC being selected by…
Latest SAS Risk Management Offerings for Banking, Insurance Help Address Regulations, Risk
To address evolving risk management practices and regulatory requirements, such as Basel III and Solvency II, SAS has ramped up risk management solutions for both banking and insurance with enhancements to SAS Risk Management for Banking and SAS Risk Management for Insurance. Leading organizations relying on enterprise risk solutions from SAS, the leader in business…
GoldenSource Helps Buy and Sell Side Institutions Achieve a Consolidated View of Risk with EDM 8.3.1
For financial firms looking to keep up with recent regulatory reform, GoldenSource Corporation, a leading enterprise data management solutions provider, has today announced the generally available release of EDM Suite version 8.3.1 (EDM 8.3.1). Already successfully implemented with a client through its Powered By program, EDM 8.3.1 consolidates disparate data feeds and provides increased functionality…
DST Global Solutions’ Anova Platform Now Available as a Hosted Service
DST Global Solutions, a market-leading provider of systems and services to the investment management industry, today announced that Anova, its award-winning middle office investment analytics platform, is now available as a hosted service to investment and wealth management firms globally. The Anova hosted service is provided by DST Global Solutions’ parent company DST Systems, which…
ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software Launches Data Management Solution
ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced the launch of Eze Data Management, a highly extensible, multi-asset class data repository that provides the tools for data enrichment, maintenance of “golden copy” reference data, as well as aggregation, tracking and reporting on performance and risk data. The new product seamlessly integrates with ConvergEx’s award-winning Eze…