London-based financial software and services provider City Networks has hired Andy Gershon as sales manager for Asia in the company’s Hong Kong office. Gershon joins a team of 30 staff based in Hong Kong. He moves from Misys’ trading and risk management software division MKI, where he was regional sales manager for the Greater China region, based in Hong Kong. City Networks says it expects to make more appointments in Hong Kong in the near future.
Adding cloud to high performance trading infrastructure offers the benefits of scalability, faster development, and lower capex costs – but can it meet required speeds of data delivery, does it limit the extent of available data, and how can low-latency data be sourced in the cloud? Still more, is it feasible to run a complete...
Telekurs Financial has signed an agreement with Vaerdipapircentralen (VP), Denmark’s Central Security Administration, to take on the clients of VP Financial Information products in the Nordic markets. VP has so far acted as a partner of Telekurs Financial in the Nordic markets. This will now be handled by Telekurs-owned SIX AB. Since 2002, Vaerdipapircentralen (VP)...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
The industry breathed a sigh of relief when the deadline for reporting under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) was pushed back to July 1, 2014. But what’s starting to look like perhaps the most significant regulation of the next 12 months may start to impact our marketplace sooner than we think, especially...