McPartland Leaves BlackRock for Greenwich Associates
Kevin McPartland, principal, Greenwich Associates
Kevin McPartland has left asset manager BlackRock, where he was a director in the electronic trading and market structure group for little over a year, and joined Greenwich Associates as principal to lead a new market structure and technology advisory service, say officials at the market research firm.The new research service will “leverage our existing data store and our ability to collect statistically relevant data to dig deeply into today’s most pressing market structure issues, from swap execution facilities to data management,” McPartland says in a prepared statement.
Prior to BlackRock, McPartland was a principal at market research firm, the TABB Group, where he founded and ran the fixed income research practice. McPartland’s 15-year career also includes posts at JPMorgan, UBS and Deutsche Bank and experience in fixed income, over-the-counter derivatives trading and financial services technology. Over the years, McPartland has testified before the Senate Banking Committee and the CFTC on OTC derivatives reform and been quote by major media outlets.
ACTIV Hires from Morningstar for EMEA Sales Director
Ben Collins, EMEA Sales Director , ACTIV Financial
ACTIV Financial has hired Ben Collins, the former global sales and marketing director for Morningstar’s Real Time Data Business, to be its director of sales for EMEA and help the financial market data and solutions vendor expand globally, say company officials. Collins will join ACTIV’s London-based team and among his responsibilities will be to support ACTIV’s expansion into Asian markets.
At Morningstar, Collins managed sales and marketing teams in London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago. He joined Morningstar via its 2008 acquisition of UK-based Tenfore Systems Ltd. where he was global head of sales. Before Tenfore, Collins had sales management roles at Thomson Financial, Bloomberg and Informa.
“In line with our mission of global expansion, we identified the need to appoint senior management in Europe to drive ACTIV’s growth in the EMEA region,” says Frank Piasecki, president and co-founder for ACTIV.
Gresham Opens New Headquarters in London
Reconciliation vendor Gresham Computing has moved into new corporate headquarters in London, following “a record first six months and impressive growth” for its on-boarding and real-time recs business, say Gresham officials.
The vendor recently opened its new corporate headquarters at 10 – 15 Queen Street, City of London, officials say. Gresham also expanded into Asia Pacific earlier this year with a new regional headquarters in Sydney and a new office in Singapore. The company also has grown its UK development center via additional facilities for new developers, client-facing workshops and training.
Gresham’s flagship Clareti Transaction Control solution targets banks, financial institutions and corporates globally.
FINRA Fills out Board of Governors
FINRA members have elected two industry governors to the regulatory authority’s board of governors while FINRA named a new public governor to the board, according to officials. The voting took place at the 2013 annual meeting in Washington, DC.
The FINRA by-laws specify that member firms elect two governors, one from among the small firms and one from among the large firms, say officials. Governors are appointed or elected to three-year terms and may not serve more than two consecutive terms.
The small firm governor is Robert Keenan, CEO of St. Bernard Financial Services, while the large firm governor is James D. Weddle, managing partner, Edward Jones. Weddle has served as the large firm governor for the past three years, officials say.
The public governor is Shelly Lazarus, former chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather. Lazarus replaces FINRA board member Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, who had served as a public governor on the board since FINRA’s inception in 2007.
FINRA also reappointed four governors to the board, including three public members. The investment company affiliate is John J. Brennan at the Vanguard Group, while the public governors are: William H. Heyman, The Travelers Companies, Inc.; John W. Schmidlin, retired; and Gary H. Stern, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minn.
A 22-person board of governors oversees FINRA, with 11 seats held by public governors and 10 by industry governors. FINRA’s CEO has the remaining seat.
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