Investment manager Brandywine Global has selected the Apex Collateral solution from SunGard Financial Systems to “help support its growing collateral management business,” according to a company statement. Some of Brandywine’s most pressing requirements when choosing the solutions were “the ability to comply with increased regulatory demands and improve the client experience by reducing counterparty risk,”… Read More >>
Bolero International Opens Singapore Office
Bolero International Ltd., an electronic trade finance solutions provider, reports that it has opened a new office in Singapore’s Raffles Place financial district. The new office will bring Bolero “closer to corporate, logistics and financial customers based in and operating out of the region,” according to a company statement. In addition, the company is “committed… Read More >>
Oulhadj Upped to COO of RJO
Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), which describes itself as the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the U.S., reports that Jamal Oulhadj, its senior managing director and chief risk officer (CRO), has been promoted to chief operating officer (COO) of RJO Holdings Corp., the firm’s holding company. Oulhadj, 50, has… Read More >>
SEC’s Salt Lake Regional Director to Retire
SEC officials have announced that Karen L. Martinez, regional director of the Salt Lake City, Utah office, will be leaving the agency and retiring this summer. Martinez joined the SEC’s Salt Lake office in 2002 as trial counsel and began supervising the office’s enforcement program in 2010 when she became assistant director, officials say. In… Read More >>
Fidessa Names Head of European Sell-Side Sales
Fidessa, the London-based electronic trading platform and services vendor, has hired Peter Holmgren as its new head of business sales for sell-side trading systems in Europe, officials say. In his new role, Holmgren will be responsible for sales across all asset classes to the European broker community, officials say. He will be based in Fidessa’s… Read More >>
Interactive Data Revamps Fixed-Income Content
Market and reference data vendor Interactive Data Corp. (IDC) has completed “an extensive upgrade to its North American fixed-income reference data content,” say company officials. The content is available on IDC’s Apex platform. “Interactive Data has invested in and enhanced our reference data platform to empower firms to reduce their total cost of ownership and… Read More >>
Finsapp and Volante to Build Solutions
Finsapp, a specialist system integrator for the SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider, and Volante Technologies, a provider of software for the integration, validation and processing of financial messages and data, report that they have entered into a partnership to build business domain solutions. The solutions will be “based on interbank, intrabank and bank… Read More >>
ISDA Takes Aim at Derivatives Reporting Roadblocks
One of the key components of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law was an effort to increase the transparency of the notoriously opaque derivatives markets, which played a major role in the Great Recession. Five years down the line and regulators have made significant progress toward achieving that goal, according to industry group International Swaps and Derivatives… Read More >>
CFTC Unveils Market Risk Advisory Committee
The CFTC has unveiled the names of the members of its new market risk advisory committee. The committee, chartered in 2014, is meant to supports efforts to “to detect and mitigate risks within the market to industry participants, consumers, and the broader financial community,” the CFTC says in a statement. “This year, the committee intends… Read More >>
Volante Hires Senior Execs, Opens Offices
Volante Technologies Inc., a provider of financial data messaging integration, validation and processing tools, reports the appointments of Nadish Lad as head of payments product and Peter McKenna as global marketing director, as well as the addition of new development and testing staff and the opening of new offices, in Jersey City, N.J., and Hyderabad,… Read More >>
