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People Moves: ASX, Northern Trust, MSCI, Asifma, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Jonathan Cross (pictured), who joins LiquidityBook as general manager for EMEA.
Kaizen Lands Lee for SFTR Business
Lee has a background in regulatory reporting and SFTR, including leading an ICMA taskforce on SFTR.
Morgan Stanley Moves Beaton to Head US Trade and Transaction Reporting
Beaton brings to the new role 15 years of expertise in financial services program management, regulatory and risk oversight, and audit trail recovery and management.
Former Barclays Electronic Trading Director Joins Big XYT
Mark Montgomery will hold a key role in strategy and business development.
Data Head Jones Departs BarCap
Jones spent a combined 22 years at Barclays and UBS in data and technology management roles.
Bloomberg Updates on BRAIS Index ‘Evolution,’ Preps Customizable Indexes
Since buying the BRAIS index and analytics suite from Barclays last year, Bloomberg has been hard at work creating an integrated platform for data, analytics and indexes, while developing plans for expanding the indexes. Joanne Faulkner reports on the…
Truths and Myths of Machine Learning
ETAS panel dismisses common perceptions about artificial intelligence and machine learning, asking for business cases to take off.
Barclays Launches Online Portal for Order Handling
Specs enables buy-side traders to view, verify and request changes to equities order-handling settings.
Bloomberg Point/Port Apprehensions Are Not Going Away
Surveys of fixed-income market participants not showing any increased optimism over Bloomberg’s acquisition of Barclays Point risk analytics platform.
Open Access Derivatives Project CurveGlobal Goes Live
CurveGlobal is an interest rates derivatives venture that will offer low fees and no market data charges
LSE Hires Ex-Barclays Index CEO Samad to Lead Multi-Asset Benchmarks
Samad was previously CEO of the Barclays Risk Analytics and Index Solutions business, prior to its recent sale to Bloomberg.
Point to Port: Bloomberg Looks to Ease Concerns Following Completion of BRAIS Acquisition
Barclays support of the Point platform will end in 18 months.
Bloomberg Vows to Expand Barclays Index Unit Post-Acquisition, Keep Index Data Free
The vendor says it has been talking with clients to address any concerns about the transition of the index assets acquired from Barclays.
FINRA Fines BarCap $1.3M for Reporting ‘Failures'
The failures included missing or duplicate reports, and erroneous data for timestamps and execution quantities, among other data fields.
UPDATE: Fixnetix Adds Sales, Tech Execs
Lopez Lansdowne and Salmon continue the vendor's hiring this year to bolster its sales and technical expertise.
TMX Taps Ex-ICE, NYSE Tech Exec Rajarathinam as CIO
In a career spanning almost 20 years, Rajarathinam has worked at exchanges, banks and technology vendors.
OptionMetrics Adds Staff to Support Growth
Kim and Villanueva are two of a number of new hires appointed to support the company's growth after experiencing three quarters of record revenue.
The Buy Side’s KYC Moment
When it comes to KYC demands, while the sell side still has it the roughest, over the last two years, the buy side has had to take on a greater share of the burden.
OpenFin Names Account Director, Europe COO
Harvey and Ruiz have backgrounds in bank technology operations management and fixed income e-trading.
NAFIS 2016: ‘Partner' with Vendors for Mutual Gains
If consumer firms and suppliers wotk as true business partners rather than just on a buyer-seller basis, users can get better deals, and vendors can leverage licensing opportunities.
Barclays Point Fixed-Income Users Worry About Bloomberg Port Conversion
A recent survey found that the fixed-income community has major concerns about the sunsetting of Barclays' Point platform.