Rolfe & Nolan has added Gavin Parker to its European sales team, with a focus on order management solutions. He was previously managing director at Real Time Trading Systems and was IT director at Fortis Bank. Parker will report to Bill Herder, senior vice president, order management, and will be based in London.
Data quality is critical to capital markets processes from identifying counterparties to building customer relationships, regulatory reporting, and ultimately improving the bottom line. It can also be extremely difficult to achieve. One solution is a data quality control framework that includes an automated and systematic process that monitors the state of data quality and ensures...
Wachovia Corp. has licensed Xcitek CostBasis’s XCB solution to calculate cost allocation factors and tax opinions on corporate actions. XCB is an automated solution for supplying cost basis and tax data. Susan Lane, managing director, securities servicing, Wachovia, says the product is user-friendly and cost effective in supporting the bank’s trust account base. “It provided...
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 US corporate actions market has long been characterised as paper-based and manually intensive, but it seems that much progress is being made of late to tackle the lack of automation due to the introduction of four little letters: XBRL. According to a survey by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and standards...