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SunGard Confirms Departure of Marketing Chief Paul Wilson
It has emerged that Paul Wilson has left the role of chief marketing officer (CMO) at SunGard Financial Systems after working at the company for a total of nearly 14 years. Wilson joined SunGard in 1999, initially leading the marketing of two international business segments before being promoted to lead corporate marketing in EMEA and…
US Senate Names Former Morgan Stanley Economist Berner as OFR Director
The US Senate has named former Morgan Stanley executive Richard Berner as the first director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR). The OFR was set up under the Dodd-Frank legislation within the US Treasury Department and charged with tasks such as the development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system that will improve…
Mark Davies Takes Role of CEO at Avox as Ken Price Steps Down
Ken Price has left his role as CEO of Avox, making way for DTCC business development head Mark Davies to take the CEO’s role at the reference data company. UK-based Avox was co-founded by Price and acquired by DTCC in July 2010, at which time Price said he would leave the company once it had…
Carney to Continue as Chair of Financial Stability Board
Mark Carney will continue his role as chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) when he steps down as governor of the Bank of Canada on June 1, 2013, and fills the same role at the Bank of England just a month later following the retirement of governor Mervyn King. Carney was appointed as chair…
Chris Bannocks Joins Barclays to Head Up Global Reference Data
Chris Bannocks has moved on from the role of managing director, global head of enterprise data management at Nomura International to head up reference data at Barclays. Bannocks joined Barclays in London this week and takes the title managing director, global head of reference data. His responsibility is reference data on a global basis across…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: NYSE Tech Bags Robson – What Next?
It was with a mix of satisfaction and relief that I read the press release confirming the appointment of former Thomson Reuters Enterprise group president Jon Robson as CEO of NYSE Technologies. You, of course, read it here first. The question now is what it means for our marketplace. Doubtless our colleagues over at sister…
Andrew’s Blog – Musical Chairs (Part 94)
A couple of months ago, I was surprised to learn while on a Greek mountainside of Stanley Young’s appointment as head of the Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions division. At the time, we speculated that more activity may be afoot, suggesting that Young may be to NYSE Technologies and Bloomberg what Jon Robson was to…
Dalglish to UBS as CTO of Group Data
Tom Dalglish has joined UBS as CTO, Group Data. In this role he will be “Making it easier to access reference data for the enterprise.” Dalglish was previously director and chief information architect, Equities at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and also held positions at JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Summit Systems. He is also…
Andrew’s Blog – NYSE’s Schaedel Heads for the Beach
I was sad to hear of Mark Schaedel’s departure from NYSE Euronext, where he has been head of market data for the past several years. Schaedel, based in Amsterdam, has been leading a bunch of innovative projects there, aiming to tap into the wealth of meta-data the exchange generates as a byproduct of its ‘market’…
Roderick Manzie Joins 3d Innovations as COO to Further the Data Management Consultancy’s Growth
3d Innovations, the data management consultancy specialising in market, reference and derived/computational data,today announced the appointment of Roderick Manzie, as Chief Operating Officer. Roderick joins the Board and will manage the legal, commercial and financial aspects of the company to build an infrastructure for growth. The appointment marks a point of significant growth for 3d…