Etrali Trading Solutions, a communication and turret services integrator for trading, has named Brad Gorton managing director of the United Kingdom and Ireland and Paul Klebinder managing director of France and Italy. Both men report directly to CEO Lionel Grosclaude. The new appointments are meant to “to showcase global growth and support expansion plans across… Read More >>
SEC Official to Exit Analytics and Research Group
The SEC has announced that Gregg E. Berman, associate director of the Office of Analytics and Research in the Division of Trading and Markets, is leaving the regulator later this month. Established in 2012, the Office of Analytics and Research conducts quantitative research and data analysis to inform the commission’s policies on markets and market… Read More >>
Swiss Firm Deploys Collateral Management Solution
European wealth and asset manager Banque Pictet & Cie SA has gone live with capital markets software vendor Calypso Technology’s collateral management solution, officials say. Banque Pictet will use Calypso’s platform to “consolidate all collateral activities across its many businesses on a single platform,” according to the vendor. The platform is a “standalone, centralized collateral… Read More >>
SEC’s Head of Examinations to Leave
Andrew “Drew” Bowden, the director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), will step down by the end of this month and will return to the private sector, according to the SEC. Bowden’s time with the SEC began in November 2011 when he joined the regulator to serve as OCIE’s National Associate for… Read More >>
CFTC Launches Fraud Awareness Campaign
April is Financial Literacy Month, and for its part the CFTC is urging Americans to look into the background of their financial professionals, officials say. By highlighting the regulator’s SmartCheck.gov tool with an awareness campaign dubbed (SmartCheck Week), the CFTC aims to increase awareness of both the tool itself and the importance of due diligence… Read More >>
Eckelmann Rejoins SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc., a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, reports that Samuel D. Eckelmann has rejoined the Windsor, Conn.-based company, where he was previously managing director, as vice president, strategic software development. The software architect and consultant is a 30-plus-years veteran, and has “performed numerous engagements for the world’s top financial… Read More >>
Compliance Science Names David Eisner to Board
Compliance Science, a provider of governance, risk management and compliance solutions, has appointed David Eisner to its board of directors, officials say. Eisner is a financial services industry veteran, who, at separate times in his career, founded and was CEO of TheMarkets.com and of iExchange.com, according to a vendor statement. “Previously, he held the positon… Read More >>
Wolters Kluwer Taps Daiwa to Fill EMEA Post
Professional services vendor Wolters Kluwer has hired Paul Lyon from Daiwa Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of Japan’s Daiwa Securities Group, to fill the newly created role of director of corporate communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), officials say. Lyon will be based in London and asked to “develop and execute… Read More >>
CLO ‘Diva’ to Fight SEC Over Fraud Charges
The self-styled “Diva of Distressed” Lynn Tilton is hitting back. After federal regulators announced Monday that Tilton’s private equity firm Patriarch Partners was being charged with defrauding investors, Tilton and Patriarch filed suit against the SEC on Wednesday. The SEC filed its charges in an internal administrative court, meaning the case would be decided there… Read More >>
Glass-Steagall Redux?
First, I know that the name of Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, makes Wall Street’s collective blood boil. In fact, blood pressure levels must be rising this week as Warren makes the rounds again in part to promote the paperback version of her book “A Fighting Chance.” In interviews on TV and radio,… Read More >>
