Financial technology solutions provider Etrading Software has expanded its management team by appointing James Haskell as Chief Operating Officer and David Lane as Chief Technology Officer. Both will join the board. Haskell, who steps up from his role as Business Operations Officer at the company, previously spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs in various senior roles. Lane, earlier in his career, served at NatWest Markets, RBS and ABN Amro.
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. With financial institutions acquiring international businesses – whether through mergers-and-acquisitions activity or organic growth – cross- border trading and investment has become the norm. But with it comes a new level of complexity, as firms grapple to deal with multiple regulatory regimes, market conventions...
In another burst of corporate activity, Vela Trading Technologies has agreed to buy Object Trading, a provider of Direct Market Access (DMA), pre-trade risk, and analytical applications. The deal follows hot on the heels of Vela’s recent acquisition of OptionsCity and adds to Vela’s portfolio of high-performance trading and market data offerings. In particular, Object...
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 European corporate actions market could be the stage of some pretty heavy duty discussions regarding standards going forward, particularly with regards to the adoption of both XBRL tagging and ISO 20022 messaging. The region’s issuer community, for one, is not going to be easy to convince of the benefits of XBRL tags, given the...