BNY Mellon, an investment management and investment services provider, has promoted Donald J. Heberle to be the new CEO of BNY Mellon Wealth Management, succeeding current CEO Lawrence Hughes who is retiring on June 30, officials say. Hughes, who is leaving after 24 years with BNY Mellon, will continue with BNY Mellon in an advisory… Read More >>
Daiwa Capital Markets Deploys Torstone for Hong Kong
Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong, the investment banking arm of Daiwa Securities Group, has gone live with securities and derivatives processing software vendor Torstone Technology’s Inferno post-trade processing platform, officials say. The switch marks “the latest phase of a long-term collaboration to implement best-of-breed back-office technology across multiple asset classes at Daiwa HK,” according to… Read More >>
EBS and BrokerTec Make Strides in Merging Businesses
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 >>
SEC Hit with High-Profile Departures
SEC Chair Mary Jo White will be losing her chief of staff at the end of June, the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the regulator. Lona Nallengara, who has served as White’s chief of staff for the past two years, recently announced his intention to leave the agency. He was responsible for… Read More >>
Olivetree Group Taps CRT Capital for Top U.S. Post
Agency broker Olivetree Group has appointed Chris Pilder as the new CEO of its U.S. business, alongside two other new hires for the U.S. business, officials say. Pilder has more than 27 years of experience in the financial services industry and comes to Olivetree from a decade at CRT Capital Group, where he most recently… Read More >>
Pioneer Names Head of Equity Research, U.S.
Pioneer Investments reports that Craig D. Sterling has joined as senior vice president, head of equity research, U.S. In this post, “he is responsible for managing Pioneer Investments’ team of 14 U.S. equity research analysts based in Boston,” the company says, adding that the analyst “team supports a wide range of equity strategies with approximately… Read More >>
Family Affair: SEC Alleges Father-Son Insider Trading Scheme
The SEC has charged a father-son team with conducting “a serial insider trading scheme,” in which the son tipped off his father about lucrative merger and acquisition deals and the father communicated the information to a trader using golf terminology, officials say. The SEC alleges that Sean R. Stewart, an employee at Perella Weinberg Partners,… 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 >>
