XcitekSolutionsPlus last month hired Steve Thoma as senior client administrator within the client services team in Birmingham, AL., to provide production support and implementation of XSP within North America. Thoma was previously corporate action reorganization manager at Fifth Third Bank, and corporate action specialist at Bank One Trust. Further expansion in Birmingham, New York and London is expected.
Financial fraud and crime continue to escalate causing significant damage to companies, countries and the global economy despite enormous efforts by firms and organisations in the financial services sector to identify and expel bad actors. As these bad actors use increasingly sophisticated techniques to break into financial institutions and extract both money and data, so...
Frank Piraino has joined Xcitek as senior vice president with responsibility for managing client relationships and sales operations for the company’s flagship corporate actions software solution in New York. He was previously vice president of global sales operations and marketing for GoldenSource Corp.
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.
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...
