Coexis has promoted Sunil Shah from chief operating officer to chief executive officer, taking the place of Terry Williams. Williams has become chairman as the company aims to establish a presence in the U.S. and expand into the Far East. The former chairman Barty Smith has stepped down to become a non-executive director. Congratulations to the team for raising £100,000 for Sense International by doing sponsored trek up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
The EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II is set to be top of the trading technology agenda for 2016. It’s impact will be more granular, prescriptive and onerous than the original MiFID regulation, raising business and technology challenges for those financial institutions affected, which need to be resolved within a tight deadline. Listen...
ASX Limited (ASX) has entered into an underwriting agreement to sell its 18.6% stake in IRESS Limited (IRESS), terminating an eighteen-year long investment. The sale has been underwritten at a fixed price of $11.95 per share and is expected to realise gross proceeds of $385 million. UBS AG, Australia Branch will act as sole lead...
Now in its 10th year, RegTech Summit London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to innovate the compliance function and response.
Bombarded by a barrage of incoming regulations, data managers in Europe are looking for the ‘golden copy’ of regulatory requirements: the compliance solution that will give them most bang for the buck in meeting the demands of the rest of the regulations they are faced with. Solvency II may come close as this ‘golden regulation’:...