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Accuity Appoints Wilson CEO
David Wilson will be responsible for delivering solutions for payments, risk and compliance, as well as developing new partnerships and overseeing client services.
Coleman Taps FactSet Vet Suppelsa for Research Management Biz
Suppelsa spent 21 years at FactSet before co-founding evaluated prices provider Best Credit Data.
Northern Trust Aims to Automate Institutional Transfer Agency
This year the bank will roll out a new platform that uses an event-driven architecture to automate workflows in transfer agency.
Esma Calls for Unified Crypto Rules in Europe
The EU's market cops have urged the adoption of a unified approach to crypto assets across member states.
Cinnober Shareholders Approve Nasdaq Takeover
The US exchange group is to acquire the Swedish financial technology firm after submitting a revised offer.
Crypto Exchange BTSE Plans Futures Trading
The new features are designed around feedback from clients and will be available from next month.
UiPath Hires HP Exec Myers as New Finance Chief
Marie Myers joins the robotic process automation company from HP.
DTCC Trade Repository Receives Swiss Green Light
The trade reporting provider will have authorization to serve Switzerland's derivatives market.
Startup Crypto Custodian Koine Taps FinTech Vet Hughes for Chairman, CEO
Hughes has spent more than 30 years in senior positions in the banking and financial technology industries.
Third Country Benchmark Administrators Struggle Ahead of BMR
Failure to comply by 2020 will result in EU supervised entities’ inability to invest in products that reference benchmarks not approved by Esma.
Concannon Trades Cboe for MarketAxess
Former Bats exec will take on chief ops and president role at fixed-income venue.
Coinfloor Spins Off Physically Delivered Bitcoin Futures Exchange
CoinFLEX users will be able to use trading tools provided by Trading Technologies.
DNB Unveils Data Science, Big Data Strategy
The bank is one-third of the way through a three-year project to re-engineer its data management processes to become a more data-driven business.
Blackstone Promotes Andersson
Market data veteran Cornelia Andersson now heads research and market data teams for all of Blackstone Group.
Data, Analytics Vet Manton Returns to SAS
Manton, who has spent two decades working in data management, analytics, and visualization technologies, rejoins SAS 20 years after his first stint at the vendor.
Northern Trust Plans Wider Blockchain Rollout in 2019
The bank currently has two blockchain projects in train, for private equity and clearing.
Waters USA: Meld Man and Machine to Guide Data’s ‘Digital Transformation’
At the recent Waters USA event, experts discussed how firms can leverage technology innovation to guide the data digitization process, and where human intervention remains important.
FISD Parent SIIA Gets New CEO, Wasch Retires
Joseph has spent 20 years in strategic communications roles at industry associations, including the Consumer Technology Association and Biotech Industry Organization.
StatPro Pushes Forward with Investor Analytics, UBS Delta Integrations
The performance and risk measurement specialist is also using machine learning to help drill into value-at-risk calculations.
BondCliq to Launch Consolidated Quote Screen for Dealers
Corporate bond market data provider is also adding data visualization to its post-trade product.
Cinnober Shareholders to Mull Revised Nasdaq Offer
US exchange group’s offer rejected by holdout investors who deemed Swedish fintech firm undervalued.
ISITC Taps Fiserv’s Iagatta for 2019-2020 Chair
Iagatta has spent more than 25 years in the finance and financial technology industries, at both investment firms and technology providers.
Hamilton Trades Derivatives for Digital Currency
Steve Hamilton joins the crypto start-up ahead of its digital securities exchange launch next year.
Waters USA: Plenty of Alpha Left in Alt Data, if Firms Use AI, ML to Harness Value
At the recent Waters USA conference, panelists discussed the current wave of alternative datasets, and how getting the most out of them requires new tools and technologies.