Symbiont Names New Chairman and President Symbiont, which specializes in smart contracts and distributed ledgers in financial markets, reports the appointment of Caitlin Long, former managing director in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley, as president and chairman of the board of directors. Long will be responsible for “commercializing” Symbiont’s blockchain technology, which the company… Read More >>
EBS BrokerTec Bids Farewell to a CEO
EBS BrokerTec Also Names Jim Iorio as Global Sales Head Interdealer broker and post-trade services vendor ICAP is searching for a new CEO for its subsidiary EBS BrokerTec as Gil Mandelzis, the current CEO, has decided to step down “and will be leaving the company in due course,” officials say. “We now begin the search… Read More >>
Agency-Broker Launches Portal for Order Inspection
Dash Financial Debuts a Transparency Portal An agency broker-dealer, Dash Financial has launched DROP360, a real-time, drop-copy facility that provides transparency into “order routing behavior, execution behavior, costs and performance” for options and equities, and relays the information in a machine readable format that uses the FIX electronic trading protocol. Essentially, the DROP360 service is… Read More >>
SmartStream Fills Strategic Account Management Post
SmartStream Names Strategic Account Management Head SmartStream Technologies, which characterizes itself as a transaction lifecycle management specialist, reports the appointment of Naren Patel to head strategic account management for its Corona business unit, based in London. Patel will report to Marcus von Rahden, head of sales Europe for Corona, and will be responsible for all… Read More >>
Speakerbus Partners with Westcon for EMEA Distribution
Speakerbus Expects Deal to Boost Growth Speakerbus, a specialist provider of voice solutions, has signed an agreement with Westcon Group, a distributor of products and professional services for converged telecommunications solutions, to distribute Speakerbus’ offerings in the EMEA region, say Speakerbus officials. The partnership is expected to help Speakerbus grow. Speakerbus offers “advanced telephony, hoot… Read More >>
Barclays Bids Farewell to its IB CEO and Welcomes New COO
Barclays Also Welcomes a New Chief Operating Officer Tom King, the CEO of the Investment Bank at Barclays, will retire on March 4, 2016, after overseeing “a period of extraordinary change,” Barclays officials announced late last week. “After nearly 25 years in my career, and having now seen the Investment Bank through a period of… Read More >>
Deutsche Bank Creates Combined IT/Ops Head Positions
Deutsche Bank Creates Combined Post to Oversee Corporate and Investment Banking Deutsche Bank reports that Pascal Boillat will join in the newly created post of chief information officer and head of operations to oversee corporate and investment banking. The appointment is effective February 1, 2016, bank officials say. In another combined post, Boillat will report… Read More >>
Clarus and Compliance Science Add Staff in Europe
Clarus Financial Technology Opening Belfast R&D Center Clarus Financial Technology, a London-based fintech company, is establishing a research and development center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which it says will create 15 new jobs. As part of the Belfast project, Invest Northern Ireland has made a £75,000 ($115,449.97) employment grant to Clarus. “The 15 new jobs will… Read More >>
Former MF Global SVP Joins RJO as Gresham Launches NYC Office
Ex-MF Global SVP to be R.J. O’Brien’s MD for New York Chicago-based futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) has appointed Kevin J. Hall, a former senior vice president at MF Global, as managing director, sales and head of the firm’s New York office, officials say. Hall, who has more than three… Read More >>
