Thomson Financial has named Mark Howarth managing director of Asia-Pacific operations based in Hong Kong. Howarth comes from a nine year stint at Instinet, where he was most recently managing director, Asia ex-Japan. He reports to Donal Smith, president, Europe and Asia, Thomson Financial.
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Much has been made of the initiative to create a global standard legal entity identifier (LEI). Its backers have taken great pains to explain how the new identifier will improve transparency and contribute to the ongoing regulatory war against systemic risk. After months of...
Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and 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 US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year. But with the exception of a few modifications, the legislation remains in place and starts to comes into force in earnest...