Mizuho International, a subsidiary of one of the largest financial institutions in Japan, has gone live with a security master application from reference data vendor GoldenSource, officials say. The deployment of the Securities & Products application follows the investment bank’s January deployment of GoldenSource’s entity master application, dubbed Customers & Counterparties, officials say. Integrated on… Read More >>
It’s Time for T+2 and FTF Focus Magazine
A very warm spring has come to the New York City area this week and coincidentally we are debuting a new online magazine from FTF News (a printed version is also available). To underscore our new commitment to magazine journalism, we have renamed the publication “FTF Focus,” and for this special edition, we took on… Read More >>
Finpacific Joins Misys Partner Program
Finpacific Treasury Systems, an Australian treasury, risk and cash flow management vendor, has partnered with financial software vendor Misys and joined Misys’ InFusion Partner Program, officials say. Finpacific has more than 10 years of experience working with banks in the Asia Pacific region and has “deep expertise in application development and deployment, managed services, training… Read More >>
I-Star Gets Option access to Osaka Exchange
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI), a consulting and system solutions vendor, has added a “weekly option dealing” component to the I-Star securities back-office solution, officials say. The new component provides access to new options on the Nikkei Stock Average, contracted by the Osaka Exchange. The new component is scheduled to be made available via the… Read More >>
ICAP Veteran Appointed to Virtu Financial Board
Market maker Virtu Financial has appointed John D. Nixon, the former group executive director for Americas at interdealer broker ICAP (US), to its board of directors effective immediately, officials say. Nixon recently announced that he will retire from the ICAP board of directors March 31 of this year, a position he held since May 2008…. Read More >>
Startup OpenFin Fills Key Posts
OpenFin, a startup provider of HTML5 runtime technology for financial services firms, recently announced the hiring of Jen Collet as chief operating officer (COO) Europe; Steve Greenblatt as vice president of North American sales; and the appointments of Paul Humphrey and Aron Miodwonik as strategic advisors. Collet was COO of post-trade risk at interdealer broker… Read More >>
Former Disney VP Joins Vestmark as CFO
Advisory solutions and wealth management IT vendor Vestmark has hired Tiffany Freitas as its new chief financial officer (CFO), officials say. In her new role, Freitas will oversee the financial planning, corporate development, accounting, and investor relations groups, reporting to the CEO, officials say. The moves comes as Vestmark is on a “tremendous growth trajectory… Read More >>
UnaVista Hires from Axiom SL
UnaVista, the London Stock Exchange Group’s matching, reconciliation and regulatory reporting platform, reports that Robert Grant has joined as head of business development, software for Americas. Grant has 25 years of industry experience and most recently served as senior vice president of sales at Axiom Software Laboratories, “where he also led marketing and business development… Read More >>
BNP Paribas Names Deputy COO
Thierry Laborde has been appointed deputy chief operating officer (COO) of BNP Paribas, in charge of domestic markets, officials say. Laborde succeeds François Villeroy de Galhau at the Paris, France-based bank and financial services company, “who has been entrusted by the French prime minister with an assignment on investment in France and in Europe,” according… Read More >>
Exchange for Carbon Trading Launches in U.S.
Is carbon trading making a comeback? Officials at the Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX), an electronic spot trading exchange for global carbon credits, hope so. CTX has just launched a platform to buy and sell allowances from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), officials say. RGGI is the first mandatory cap-and-trade program in the United States… Read More >>
