Robson Takes CEO Post at NYSE Technologies
Market data industry veteran Jon Robson has left his position as president of the Enterprise Division at Thomson Reuters to become the next CEO of NYSE Technologies, say officials at NYSE Euronext.
As CEO, Robson will oversee the connectivity, transaction and data services business of the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext. Robson will be based in New York and will report to Dominique Cerutti, president and deputy CEO, NYSE Euronext.
“Jon will help us further define and execute the next phase of this mission in close partnership with our customers and the financial technology community,” Cerutti says in a prepared statement.
In addition to his years at Thomson Reuters, Robson was a founder of Moneyline, an Internet-based real-time financial services company and was CEO of Moneyline Telerate. He also held senior positions with Dow Jones & Co. and BIS Banking Systems.
Among its offerings, NYSE Technologies provides products, services and solutions to the buy side, including order routing, liquidity discovery and access to more than 630 broker-dealers.
Robson replaces Stanley Young who left NYSE Technologies earlier this year to serve as CEO of the enterprise products and solutions division of Bloomberg, which includes PolarLake, an enterprise data management (EDM) provider acquired by Bloomberg.
GFI Group to Open Office in Mexico City
Mark A. Sandomeno,
head of derivatives, Mexico,
GFI
Interdealer broker GFI Group Inc. is slated to open an office for 20 to 30 employees in Mexico City by mid-October, says Mark A. Sandomeno, head of the Mexican derivatives desk at GFI.
For the past decade, GFI has been using its hybrid model of brokers and trading technology to help its institutional clients access key instruments in the Mexican market, including interest rate swaps, forwards; cross-currency basis swaps; inflation-based index swaps, and Mexican interest rate options. The firm has been working in the Mexican markets with staff based in New York where GFI is headquartered.
“The world is becoming an increasingly smaller place,” Sandomeno says. Given the regulatory changes underway in the U.S and Mexico, the firm hopes to help “extend [the Dodd Frank mandates] to Mexico to increase the efficiency and transparency of our markets,” he says.
“The plan is to hire locally. We’re also going to have some space available for the comings and goings of staff from New York to Mexico,” Sandomeno says. “They can work during the day and see customers in the afternoon.
GFI’s product mix will not be changing with the opening of the Mexico City office. “We plan on sticking to our knitting from the beginning,” Sandomeno says. “Once we get the lay of the land, then we can reassess for different opportunities.”
Citigroup Picks Head of North American Treasury and Trade
Citigroup has tapped Andrew Gelb to be the head of North America Treasury and Trade Solutions, succeeding Amol Gupte who has been named Asia Pacific region head for Citi Transaction Services, officials say. Gelb will be based in New York.
Gelb has worked in Citi’s transaction banking business for 15 years in locations including London, New York and Tokyo. His most recent position was regional head of Citi’s Securities and Fund Services (SFS) business for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to that post, Gelb was located in New York where he was the global head of SFS Intermediary Services (Direct Custody and Clearing), a direct custody business with a 50-plus country network, officials say.
Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, a business unit of Citi Transaction Services, provides integrated cash management and trade finance services to multinational corporations, financial institutions and public sector organizations.
MoneyMate Names SVP for North American Sales
Jason Schwarz,
senior VP, North American sales,
MoneyMate
MoneyMate, a specialist provider of investment data management solutions, has hired Jason Schwarz to be its senior vice president of North American sales, officials say. Schwarz has held sales positions with Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s over the past 10 years.
Schwarz will be tasked with expanding the current client base within North America and will establish new partnerships and opportunities for asset managers to implement MoneyMate’s core solution, Fund ProductMaster, officials say. The core offering helps global asset managers to deliver fund product information to the markets.
Most recently, Schwarz was with Moody’s Analytics, and managed a team responsible for developing an existing business worth $15 million in annual revenue, officials say. During his time at Standard & Poor’s, he managed the sales process for evaluated security pricing and reference data.
Information Mosaic Adds Office in Australia
Information Mosaic, a post-trade automation solutions provider has opened a sales and support office in Melbourne, Australia, officials say. The new office is an expansion of Information Mosaic’s presence in the region, adding to its existing offices in India, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Deirdre Jennings, Information Mosaic’s head of business development for Asia, will transfer from the vendor’s Singapore office to run the new Melbourne location. Information Mosaic will also be hiring locally, officials say.
“Information Mosaic is building on the success we have already established in Australia, and our commitment to the region is evidenced by the establishment of this office in Melbourne and the development of a local team,” Jennings says in a prepared statement.
Digital Reasoning Taps Cristóbal Conde for its Board
Cristóbal Conde,
board of directors,
Digital Reasoning
Former president and CEO of SunGard Cristóbal Conde has joined the board of directors for Digital Reasoning, a provider of analytics for unstructured data.
In his role as director, Conde will help the company as it moves into financial services from serving U.S. intelligence agencies.
Digital Reasoning offers its Synthesys platform for making sense of unstructured data. The Synthesys platform reads, resolves and reasons across hundreds of millions of documents to automatically understand and isolate critical information such as risks, opportunities and anomalies, officials say. Digital Reasoning is based near Nashville, Tenn., and has offices in Washington, D.C., and New York.
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