ACA Group, a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions provider, is moving into the Middle East via the acquisition of the Effecta Compliance Group, a regulatory consultancy with financial services clients in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), officials say. Effecta specializes in providing authorization, advisory, and regulatory project management services… Read More >>
Northern Trust & SimCorp to Build Custody Data Links
Northern Trust and investment management solutions vendor SimCorp report that they are collaborating to facilitate an integrated exchange of data for clients of the custodian that also use the SimCorp Dimension platform. The collaboration leverages SimCorp’s software “with pre-established connectivity and Northern Trust’s support for data management,” says James Wright, head of asset owners, EMEA at… Read More >>
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Target Margining Rules
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Begin Collaboration OpenGamma, which characterizes itself as a margin optimization provider, reports a new collaboration with IHS Markit, which characterizes itself as a provider of critical securities information, analytics and solutions. The vendors are jointly offering a system for mutual clients looking to reduce the cost of margin management. Their offering… Read More >>
Liquidnet Names Head of Technology for EMEA
Liquidnet Creates New Technology Role Liquidnet reports the appointment of Patrick Strobel as head of technology for EMEA, which the institutional trading network calls a “newly formed role.” Stroebel joins Liquidnet’s global technology group, reporting to Bob Garrett, head of technology. Strobel will be responsible for “building out Liquidnet’s strategic IT architecture in EMEA… Read More >>
ESMA Leaves Key OTC Questions Unanswered
Although the latest edict from the European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) was supposed to clarify the concept of “traded on a trading venue” (TOTV), there is still some uncertainty around the over the counter (OTC) component of securities transactions. The objective of ESMA’s opinion is to help market participants better understand under which circumstances transactions… Read More >>
Barclays to Lay Off 1,000 in Investment Banking
Barclays will be shrinking its investment banking staff in Asia and elsewhere by 1,000 or so as a result of the bank’s decision to exit markets that are proving to be a challenge for global financial services firms. Overall, the investment bank of Barclays “will continue to focus on its two home markets in the… Read More >>
Deutsche Bank Hires from Goldman Sachs for Head of New CIB Group
Deutsche Bank Appoints Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for EMEA Deutsche Bank reports that Alasdair Warren from Goldman Sachs has been named head of corporate and investment banking (CIB) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective spring 2016. CIB itself will be created by combining the corporate finance business in corporate banking… Read More >>
FIX Lines Up Subgroups to Tackle MiFID II
The FIX Trading Community, the standards body for the Financial Information eXchange electronic trading protocol, has formed six new subgroups focused on addressing several aspects of compliance with the upcoming Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) regulations in Europe, officials say. The new subgroups will focus on clock synchronization, reference data, transparency, best… Read More >>
Deutsche AWM Goes Live with Eagle Solution
Vendor Eagle Investment Systems, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, reports that its data management solution has gone live at Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management, where it will support the firm’s EMEA and Asia-Pacific operations, officials say. “Deutsche AWM, with €1.039 billion of assets under management (AUM), is among the 10 largest bank-owned asset and wealth… Read More >>
Wolters Kluwer Taps Daiwa to Fill EMEA Post
Professional services vendor Wolters Kluwer has hired Paul Lyon from Daiwa Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of Japan’s Daiwa Securities Group, to fill the newly created role of director of corporate communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), officials say. Lyon will be based in London and asked to “develop and execute… Read More >>
