Digital Asset Board Chairman to Be Acting CEO Digital Asset, a provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT), reports that Blythe Masters, the company’s CEO since 2015, will step down, for unspecified personal reasons. AG Gangadhar, who joined the company’s board of directors in April of this year, has been named board chairman and will serve… Read More >>
Executives Need to Drive Diversity at Firms: Q&A
(Cheryl Nash, president of Fiserv Investment Services, is the recipient of the Editor’s Choice Award for 2018, a top honor of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. This interview is a follow-up to a Q&A done in the spring when Nash gave the closing keynote address at the ISITC 24th Annual Securities Operations Summit. Nash… Read More >>
Change Management Can Help Uproot Manual Systems
(Cheryl Nash, president of Fiserv Investment Services, gave the closing keynote address last month at the ISITC 24th Annual Securities Operations Summit, and her talk focused on the inevitability of change. Nash has been serving in her current post for more than six years, and her expertise includes the development of “multiple strategy portfolios, known… Read More >>
RIA to Use Fiserv’s Portfolio Accounting & Trading System
Capital Wealth Planning to Deploy Fiserv Platform Capital Wealth Planning, a registered investment advisor (RIA), will be deploying the Unified Wealth Platform from Fiserv for portfolio accounting and trading in order to supports its growth path. The firm, based in Naples, Fla., chose the Fiserv to help it “achieve greater productivity and efficiency in our… Read More >>
Four Women Nominated for Top Ops Prize of FTF Awards
Four women have made the list of nominees for the Ops Business Person of the Year category of the 2017 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, reports Financial Technologies Forum (FTF), owner of online news service FTF News and FTF Focus magazine. In addition, FTF reports that it has finalized the list of nominees and has… Read More >>
Fiserv’s Unified Wealth Platform Embraces the Robot
(Editor’s note: A provider of an array of financial technology solutions, Fiserv is partnering with Marstone, a New York-based digital advisory firm, to provide the Powered by Marstone suite of digital investment advice solutions. The suite will be offered via Fiserv’s Wealth Management Network. FTF News was lucky to get time with Cheryl Nash, president… Read More >>
State Street Fills Key SSGA and APAC Posts
SSGA Appoints U.K. Head of SPDR ETF Business State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation, reports the appointment of Claire Perryman as head of its SPDR exchange traded funds (ETF) business in the United Kingdom. Perryman will be based in London and report to Rory Tobin, co-head of the… Read More >>
SEC Fills Key Post for Enforcement Division
SEC Appoints Associate Director for SEC Division Melissa Hodgman has been named associate director in the SEC’s enforcement division, succeeding Stephen L. Cohen, who left in June, the SEC reports. Hodgman began in the division in 2008 as a staff attorney, according to a statement, which notes also that she joined the market abuse unit… Read More >>
Rabobank, D&H Complete Blockchain Proof-of-Concept Project
The Project’s Success Bodes Well for Other DLT Applications DH Corp., a provider of technology solutions to financial institutions globally, and Dutch bank Rabobank announced that they have successfully completed a proof of concept for blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) that supports D+H’s payments services hub, and paves the way for other applications of DLT…. Read More >>
RNC Genter Deploys Single-Point Access to Fiserv Network
Firm to Use Fiserv’s Asset Manager Connect Asset manager RNC Genter Capital Management is using Asset Manager Connect from Fiserv to “increase access to managed account sponsors and grow their client base,” officials say. The Asset Manager Connect links lets firms easily communicate with managed-account sponsors across the Wealth Management Network from Fiserv, officials say…. Read More >>
