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 data management challenges of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are significant and must be tackled soon to ensure compliance in just over a year on 25 May 2018. The regulation makes many extensions to existing European data privacy rules, adds new obligations and pitches fines for non-compliance at up to 4% of turnover. Listen...
Cryptocurrency is all the rage in capital markets, but how does it differ from other asset classes, how will it be regulated and what are its challenges and opportunities for trading firms and exchanges? A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City answered these questions and more, looking at both the...
A-Team Group’s Digital Assets & Tokenisation Summit spotlights how global financial leaders are rapidly embracing programmable tokenised assets and DLT networks to achieve real-time, 24/7 peer-to-peer transactions.
After what looked like a slow start to the summer, the initiative to establish a global standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) took a series of significant leaps forward during August, that appears to have put the project firmly back on track. If the marketplace felt a little reticent in June and July, it could...