EBS BrokerTec, interdealer-broker ICAP’s electronic foreign exchange and fixed income business, has announced that it’s made significant strides in combining the businesses of EBS and BrokerTec since they merged divisions six months ago, officials say. EBS BrokerTec has combined its sales, support and on-boarding teams, allowing “the business to leverage its scale and reach more… Read More >>
ISE Board Adds Members from Barclays, Morgan Stanley
The International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. (ISE) announced the addition of Eric Levine and Tyler Sorba to the boards of directors of its two exchanges. Levine, a director and head trader of Barclays’ automated volatility trading group, was appointed to represent ISE’s Competitive Market Makers (CMMs), officials say. Levine joined Barclays in 2008 through its… Read More >>
LCH.Clearnet Appoints Global Head of Sales
LCH.Clearnet Group reports that Ali Hackett has been named to the newly created position of global head of sales and relationship management. She will be responsible for “maximizing the value, reach and range of the Group’s existing customer relationships whilst pursuing new member and client business opportunities,” according to a statement. Hackett, who will be… Read More >>
The Fed Hits Six Banks with Record Fines
The Federal Reserve has imposed $1.8 billion in fines, “among the largest ever assessed,” against UBS, Barclays Bank, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Bank of America Corp. (BofA) for what Fed officials call “their unsafe and unsound practices in the foreign exchange (FX) markets.” The dollar amounts for… Read More >>
Sell Side Adapts to FIX for Confirmations, Affirmations
It appears that sell-side firms are becoming more comfortable with the extension of the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading protocol for post-trade purposes as 75 percent of broker/dealer respondents in a new survey say they use FIX for confirmation/affirmation workflows. The FIX Trading Community, the standards body for the protocol, conducted the Global Post-Trade Survey… Read More >>
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Picks Thomson Reuters KYC Service
Thomson Reuters, an information company, reports that the venerable Stifel Nicolaus Europe investment management firm has picked the Org ID KYC managed service to streamline Stifel’s know-your-customer (KYC) process. Specifically, Stifel Nicolaus Europe will be using the Thomson Reuters Org ID service to “onboard their European legal entities. The adoption of the Org ID global… Read More >>
CME, KOFIA to Collaborate on Education, Training
CME Group, the derivatives marketplace headquartered in Chicago, and Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA), report that they have signed a letter of intent to explore market education and training collaboration. A letter-of- intent signing ceremony was held in Seoul, where Christopher Mead, managing director, marketing, CME Group, and Sang-Hun Chun, managing director, KOFIA, were the signatories,… Read More >>
ITG to Aide Buy-Side to Buy-Side Trades via Bondcube
Bondcube, a fixed income trading platform, has appointed execution broker ITG as a U.S. trading intermediary for Bondcube’s buy-side to buy-side trades, officials say. For the new role, ITG will facilitate the settlement of trades between buy-side participants. In addition, the partnership will increase the probability of a match for clients of ITG and Bondcube… Read More >>
eClerx Partners with Comply Exchange
Business process support vendor eClerx has partnered with Comply Exchange, a tax compliance and reporting services provide, to “form an end-to-end solution for tax reporting,” according to an official statement. The partnership aims to provide financial entities with a scalable tax reporting solution to “support the many cumbersome activities associated with customer segmentation, client outreach, data… Read More >>
Alliance Bernstein’s Alex Shafran: Centralize Vendor Management
Shafran, who is vice president, global head of performance and head of global analytics at Alliance Bernstein, says the centralization of processes is essential to good vendor management, and offers tips on controlling the quality of data sent to vendors. Eugene Grygo, chief content editor for FTF News, conducted the interview during the Performance Measurement… Read More >>
