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Asset Control Recruits Martijn Groot to Lead Product Strategy Including Data Service Manager
Martijn Groot has left Euroclear and rejoined Asset Control to lead the company’s product strategy. His initial responsibility is Data Service Manager, a product that is designed to help financial institutions improve the timeliness and quality of their market, reference and risk data services. It is also Asset Control’s first significant product release since it…
Bloomberg Hires Richard Robinson to Promote the FIGI
Bloomberg has added former Wipro Technologies executive Richard Robinson to its open symbology team. Robinson was hired this month and will work alongside Chris Pickles to raise awareness of the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier, that Bloomberg is promoting as a global standard for securities identification. Robinson has stepped into…
Brendan Beith Joins Rimes Technologies
Brendan Beith has joined Rimes Technologies, a provider of managed data services, as head of sales, world ex Americas. He took up the post this month after leaving his role as managing director, pricing and reference data, EMEA at Interactive Data in September 2014. Beith was appointed to this role in 2010 having been European…
Eagle Investment Systems Promotes Cullen to CEO, Lehner Becomes Chairman
Eagle Investment Systems has promoted Mal Cullen to the role of CEO, replacing John Lehner who becomes chairman of the company. Cullen joined Eagle in 2001 as head of Canadian operations and most recently served as head of the Americas and Eagle Access, the company’s secure private cloud. Under Cullen’s leadership, Eagle Access has grown…
Barry Raskin to Leave SIX Financial Information
Barry Raskin is leaving his role as president of SIX Financial Information USA at the end of this month after nearly 28 years with the company. He joined Telekurs (North America) in 1987 as chief financial officer and became managing director in 1995. In 2008, the SIX Group was formed through the merger of Telekurs,…
Chris Pickles Takes a Leading Role in Bloomberg’s FIGI Campaign
Bloomberg is continuing its campaign to make the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), the world’s primary security identifier with plans to push the FIGI through the ISO standardisation process and showcase organisations benefitting from the use of the identifier. The campaign is being led by Chris Pickles, former head…
People Moves: Alacra, Capco, BGC Partners, Thomson Reuters and more
Some industry people moves, courtesy of Áine Hall at Hawk Search Alacra announced three new additions to its management team, with the appointments of Alan Samuels, Kelvin Dickenson and Kevin Kollar. (Alacra press release.) Capco announced the appointment of Jonathan Rose as a partner in their UK team. (Capco press release.) BGC Partners announced the…
Markit | Genpact KYC Services Builds Out Offer and Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec Jon May as CEO
Markit | Genpact KYC Services has marked six months of operation with the appointment of former Goldman Sachs executive Jon May as CEO, the registration of more than 600 buy-side firms and corporations with its Know Your Customer (KYC) service, and the development of workflows that allow large asset managers operating thousands of funds to…
People Moves: Smartstream, Statpro, Thomson Reuters, CME, AIMA and more
Some industry people moves, courtesy of Áine Hall at Hawk Search SmartStream appointed Richard Nicholas as director of professional services, APAC. (Smartstream press release.) StatPro announced Dr Ian Thompson has joined the group as client integration director. (StatPro press release.) Liquid Holdings Group announced the appointments of financial services industry veterans Jeremy Shaw, Richard Boesch…
Lou Eccleston, former S&P Capital IQ chief, to head Toronto Exchange Group
Former S&P Capital IQ chief Lou Eccleston is heading to Canada to join TMX Group as its new chief executive officer. In this role he’ll oversee a range of multi-asset class exchanges in Canada, including the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Canadian Depository for Securities, and the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corp. amongst others. Prior to S&P,…