BondWave, a fixed income solutions provider, and DbCom Inc., a financial technology company, have integrated BondWave’s pre-trade and post-trade transaction analytics with DbCom’s business and compliance platform, EQube, officials say. The new integration will be delivered via BondWave’s Effi application programming interface (API) to offer trade surveillance in support of “best execution, fair pricing, and… Read More >>
BondWave Bolsters Liquidity Access to ICE Bonds & Other News
BondWave Builds New Links to ICE Bonds Fixed income solutions vendor BondWave reports that has much more tightly integrated its Effi Markets with the transaction platforms of ICE Bonds, part of the Intercontinental Exchange, so that Effi users can have better access to liquidity pools and execution protocols. “BondWave and ICE Bonds have enjoyed a… Read More >>
CFTC’s Division of Enforcement Issues First Manual
Manual Brings New Transparency to DOE In a first for the CFTC, the regulator’s Division of Enforcement (DOE) is publishing and distributing an Enforcement Manual that provides an overview of the CFTC and DOE. The manual is also intended to establish general policies and procedures to guide the work of DOE staff in “detecting, investigating,… Read More >>
FINRA Appoints a New President-CEO
New FINRA Exec from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) reports that its board has named Robert W. Cook as its president and chief executive officer, “effective the second half of 2016.” He succeeds Richard G. Ketchum, chairman and CEO since 2009. Cook joins from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton… Read More >>
SmartStream Names New CEO as Philippe Chambadal Becomes President
Post-trade systems vendor SmartStream Technologies has a new CEO, Haytham Kaddoura, who will be working with Philippe Chambadal, who has left the CEO post to become president of the company, vendor officials announced this week. Kaddoura has served as an advisor to the board of directors of SmartStream, and is a member of the board… Read More >>