Thomson Financial has selected COO Sharon Rowlands to succeed Dave Shaffer as chief executive. Rowlands, who joined Thomson Financial from FT Information – now FT Interactive Data – retains the role of president. Shaffer, who has been CEO since 2002, moves back to Thomson corporate, continuing to report to Richard J. Harrington, president and chief executive officer of parent company Thomson Corp.
The 2018 regulatory agenda is probably the most onerous ever faced by financial institutions, with everything from Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) to Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Packaged Retail and Insurance based Investment Products (PRIIPs) and Benchmarks Regulation coming into play. Add the January 2019 deadline...
With regulators placing an ever-greater focus on best execution, firms across the buy and sell side are making increasing use of transaction cost analysis (TCA) to demonstrate to customers how their execution performance measures up against various benchmarks. But TCA is not just a regulatory tool. Real-time TCA can also be an incredibly useful resource...
Now in its 9th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
Corporate actions has been a popular topic of discussion over the last few months, with the DTCC’s plans for XBRL and ISO interoperability, as well as the launch of Swift’s new self-testing service for corporate actions messaging, STaQS, among others. However, it has not been a good start to the year for many of the...
