Jeremy Anderson is the new Chairman of KPMG's Global Financial Services practice. He succeeds Brendan Nelson, who retired from KPMG on March 31 to become a non-executive director at Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc.
VERMEG, announced today, the publication of its latest commissioned white paper. The research conducted by B.I.S.S. Research, states that custody systems have fallen well behind other business needs, due to ongoing regulatory demands.
Atrium Network recently announced that ICF Systems AG, located in Frankfurt and Amsterdam, will extend its use of Atrium Network to access the NYSE Liffe UTP Derivatives platform when the service goes鈥恖ive in July 2010.
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and the National Depository for Securities (NDS) have published the necessary amendments to their Rules in order to allow short selling in the Polish market, effective from July 1, 2010.
J.P. Morgan recently announced further expansion plans for its Treasury & Securities Services businesses which will see the recruitment of 100 additional staff across Australia and New Zealand and establishment of a new Australian headquarters.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued a Regulatory Notice soliciting comments on a rule proposal designed to enhance oversight of broker-dealers' "back-office" operations by expanding registration requirements.
Following a very successful US conference, 'The Securities Financing Forum' which took place yesterday, May 26th at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, Data Explorers, today released some interesting survey findings.
SunGard has launched MarketMap, a multi-asset, market data, analysis and information services solution in the U.S. MarketMap is a global solution providing data from 160 global exchanges, news feeds and over-the-counter (OTC) sources.
Data Explorers, today announced that its industry standard reference book is available through a Creative Commons license. This allows anyone to copy, distribute and remix the work for non-commercial uses. To view go to LongShortReport.com
4sight has signed four new customers for its Securities 麻豆影视传媒 software. The new client wins mean 4sight has now increased its client base to thirty financial institutions and new sales revenue has grown 150% year on year as a result.
Prime Fund Solutions (PFS), the brokerage arm of Fortis Bank Nederland soon to be Credit Suisse has made a number of new hires across its global network of offices. New members of the team include; Jay Moghe, Martin Lui, Jason Ganz and Stephen Kane.
A quick snapshot of some of the companies attracting interest from the industry at present. For more information, graphs or statistics contact Data Explorers.