Interview
Retiring, But Not Shy
After 40 years at Interactive Data and its prior incarnations-including eight years at its helm-president and chief executive Stuart Clark recently announced his intention to retire next year. As he prepares to pass the tiller to his as-yet unidentified…
Chief Thinking
There are two types of CDOs. One is currently being met with scepticism in certain investor communities. But the other - the chief data officer - is growing in popularity. As data management matures as a discipline, management structures and people…
Spotlight on Richard Balarkas
Richard Balarkas, the man who played a key role taking CSFB electronic, is heading up Instinet's European operations. He talks with Stewart Eisenhart about the agency broker's goals and challenges in a post-Mifid landscape, as well as how a distinctly…
Learning from the buy side
Udayan Goyal, a managing director at Deutsche Bank and part of Deutsche's Global Financial Technology Advisory Practice, believes the sell side has a lot to learn from the buy side when it comes to identifying, developing, and deploying technologies to…
Quality Counts
UBS's Sean Taylor talks to Carla Mangado about how data quality is still in the spotlight when it comes to counterparty data and compliance
Spotlight on Dan Bukowski
After a 22-year stint on the buy side, most recently as chief information officer (CIO) at Citigroup Asset Management, Dan Bukowski has opted to head up research at equity analytics technology developer Quantitative Services Group (QSG). He discusses the…
Falling into place
Like so many other buy-side practitioners with closely married business and technology remits, Damian Debellotte 'fell' into the position as head of investment management systems at Newton Investment Management after completing a technology…
Nasdaq: The Magnificent Seventh?
As of March 31, Nasdaq entered the highly competitive US options markets, and is gradually rolling out contracts. Inside Market Data talks with Adam Nunes, vice president of Nasdaq Transaction Services and head of the Nasdaq Options Market, to discuss…
A Year of Opportunity
After eight weeks as head of Telekurs UK, Martin Cole gives an exclusive interview to IRD, discussing his top priorities this year and the uncertainties in the market
Spotlight on Mark Froese
Sky Road, the Illinois-based financial technology developer that first made a name for itself by rolling out an ASP version of Calypso Technology's trading and risk platform in 2006, has now launched its own pre-trade analytics and research application,…
Coastal move
Roger Hartley made the move from Putnam Lovell to Coast Asset Management some three months ago, landing the fund's chief operating officer role. He talks to Victor Anderson about his reasons for his sell-side- to buy-side move, the benefits of working…
The Carletti Equation: 2+2=5
Since joining Telekurs Financial as chief executive in February last year, Marc Carletti-former managing director for Reuters France-has presided over one of the busiest periods in the vendor's history, overseeing the acquisition of French vendor Fininfo…
Independence Day
Competitive pressures are constantly prompting vendors to review their offerings and look for new opportunities. One such vendor is Knowledge Technology Solutions and the Arcontech business it bought last year, which is not only deciding the best way to…
A Life WithBasel II
Citigroup's customer data veteran Julia Sutton talks to Carla Mangado about the complexities of Basel II and why regulation is essential if the industry is to move forward
Developing diversity
Phil Sturgess, chief operations officer of Cadiz African Harvest Asset Management, made the move to the buy side ten years ago after a lengthy career in the corporate world. He speaks with Victor Anderson about Cadiz's growth during the past decade, the…
BT's Fragmentation Fighters
As regulatory initiatives such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and market forces prompt new trading venues and data sources, the European financial markets can expect to see a fragmented trading landscape in 2008. With network providers…
Diving into Data
Tine Thoresen talks to Bank of Scotland's Ross Gourlay about his new "data lifestyle" within the group
Big interview: Talking shortt
It is no secret that a number of the sharpest business and IT minds in the financial services industry are firmly ensconced within top-tier investment banks. It follows, therefore, that some of the industry’s most advanced trading and risk management…
Bringing Color to European Equities
Data is expected to become a key battleground for trading market share as multilateral trading facilities emerge across Europe to shake up the equities trading market. Eli Lederman, a former managing director and head of electronic trading at Morgan…
Downto theCore
After five years as chief information officer of Swiss American Securities, Christian Hudson tells Inside Reference Data how he has managed to improve data management processes with a lean workforce. Reference data is at the core of the business, he says
A Woman of Actions
IRD talks to Natalie O'Connell about automation, notification standards and proxy voting in the corporate actions arena
Spotlight on Tejpal Chadha
Starting over in the financial technology industry carries plenty of risks, but Tejpal Chadha has done just that. The former co-founder and chief technology officer of Vhayu has joined a new hedge fund technology platform developer, Nirvana Financial…
Learning on the job
Brian Mitchell, head of dealing and portfolio control at Baring Asset Management, is proof that you don't need an Oxford or MIT education to rise through the buy-side ranks. Victor Anderson speaks with him about how Barings formalised its execution…
Spotlight on Andrew Howieson
The Tabb Group has set up camp in Europe, and has tapped Andrew Howieson to lead the effort. Howieson, who spent 13 years as an executive at State Street, discusses his erstwhile initiatives at that firm automating investment operations and services, as…