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Basel II Plan Under Attack for Impact on Costs, Funding

The draft Basel II proposals on risk regulation have been attacked by two industry bodies in the past month. First, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) expressed concern about the potential...
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Wall Street Systems Hires Longden as European Head

Wall Street Systems has hired Chris Longden as regional managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, with responsibility for the company’s sales and delivery operations. Longden was...
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Ex-Reuters STP Executive Smith Emerges at TradeWeb

TradeWeb, the institutional transaction portal for fixed income securities, has named Chris Smith to lead its European straight-through-processing initiative. In the face of continuing competition in...
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IFDS Names Carpenter to Lead U.K. Sales

International Financial Data Services (IFDS) has hired Daniel Carpenter as head of U.K. sales, reporting to managing director Paul Roberts. IFDS is a transfer agency joint venture between DST Systems...
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SmartStream Technologies Continues Hiring Bonanza

SmartStream Technologies has recruited Steve Lewis from Capco and Tim Collins from Mercator following its acquisition of messaging and business processes management specialist Connextive. Collins...
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Evans to Head Risk at eFunds

Robert Evans has joined eFunds as managing director of risk management solutions. He was previously director of product management, development and marketing at remittance processing and content...
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Xcitek Takes Stokes from Telekurs

Gary Stokes has joined the London office of XcitekSolutionsPlus, a developer of corporate actions automation solutions, as sales executive. He will focus on expanding the U.S.-based company’s...
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New COO for Wilco North America

ADP Wilco, a subsidiary of Automatic Data Processing, has promoted Ivar Eilertsen to the post of chief operating officer for North America. In his new role at ADP Wilco, Eilertsen has responsibility...
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New RDUG Chairman Plom Joins REDAC Committee

John Gubert of HSBC has stepped down as chairman of the Reference Data User Group, and has been replaced as chair by Alan Plom of Gartmore Investment Management. Plom has also been appointed to sit...
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FISD to Brief London Community On REDAC/RDUG Progress

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) will use its forthcoming meeting in London on September 3 to inform members of its...

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