Securities industry standards organization ISITC has named industry veteran Karla McKenna as the 2020 recipient of the ISITC Standard of Excellence Award for her many efforts to bring standardization and efficiency to trading operations. McKenna received the award during ISITC’s virtual conference, ISITC Week 2020, Sept 14-17. McKenna is also the 2017 recipient of the… Read More >>
FTF Awards Q&A: Winner of the Editor’s Choice Award
(Editor’s note: The following Q&A is with the 2017 winner of the Editor’s Choice Award for Operational Excellence Karla McKenna who is a director at Citi and the head of standards for the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). A specialist in financial standards, McKenna has been facilitating the development of GLEIF standards and is… Read More >>
FTF Announces 2017 Award Winners
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has just announced the winners in its awards competition for post-trade securities operations, which turned out to include a nod to the emerging technology of blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT). Approved industry participants and a not a panel of judges selected the winners for the 2017 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, reports… Read More >>
Q&A: ‘The Ambition Is to Make the LEI System Valuable’
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) recently appointed Karla McKenna of Citigroup as its new head of standards. The GLEIF is responsible for issuing Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for firms operating in the financial markets, and in her new role McKenna will be responsible for “facilitating the development and implementation of GLEIF standards and… Read More >>
Forging IT Leadership in the Regulation Decade
A keynote speaker for the19th ISITC Annual Industry Forum and Vendor Show in Boston this week focused on the industry trade group’s raison d’être when he urged those in attendance to take on the “big challenges” such as driving a consensus to make standards reality such as the push for wider usage of ISO 20022-based… Read More >>
