Societe Generale
Chief Data Officer: A Role Under Construction
Over the past few years, the capital markets have witnessed the promotion of data executives to the role of chief data officer (CDO), elevating data issues to the C-level. Marina Daras looks at how CDOs are making their way to the top of primarily sell…
SocGen's New Lease: CTO Bob Schmeider Prepares a Built-to-Spec New York Trading Floor
In July, Société Générale is heading east to its new home at 245 Park Avenue. With the massive infrastructural consequences in store, Americas CTO Bob Schmeider has found a project—la nouvelle maison Americaine—that is ideally fit. By Tim Bourgaize…
DTCC, ISITC, Major Firms Plan Collateral Data Processing Improvements
Lessons learned from transaction reporting, fund processing and settlement advances could prove useful in managing the growing trove of data being generated in the collateral space. Michael Shashoua uncovers the issues confronting collateral data…
Société Générale Bank & Trust Migrates to Private Cloud
Société Générale Bank & Trust (SGBT), the Luxembourg-based private banking arm of Société Générale, has completed a two-year project to migrate its core banking system to a cloud-based architecture.
For Emerging Markets, Electronic FX Trading Requires a New Mindset
Although the electronic trading of non-deliverable forwards (NDF) in emerging markets is growing, it needs higher participation and a shift in attitudes to become prevalent, panelists at FIX Protocol Limited's EMEA Trading Conference said last week.
Trad-X Launches Dollar Rate Swaps
The hybrid platform for interest rate swap (IRS) trading, jointly operated by a consortium of 11 major banks and managed by interdealer broker Tradition, is set to build off its successful launch of Euro products 18 months ago.
FX Has a Place in Emerging Markets, Too
When most people think of trading in emerging markets, they think of equities first. Equities uses well-established procedures and technology and is therefore easiest to implement. In a webcast on foreign exchange (FX) technology, though, FX specialists…
2012's Financial Crime Coups Raise Stakes, Anxiety
Global regulation was the year’s obsession, but criminal probes─from rate rigging to rogue trading; sanctions violations to insider bets─won the headlines in 2012. Not every financial crime has a ready tech fix, but with buy-side cornerstones like SAC…
Newedge Rethinks Organization in Major Restructure
Futures broker Newedge has announced plans for a wholesale reform of the way it operates its business, in light of adverse market conditions.
Multi-Bank FX Platforms More Ubiquitous, Less Popular
Foreign exchange (FX) traders are getting more comfortable with algorithms and electronic platforms, says Ugur Arslan, CEO of New York-based quant fund AienTech, at a webinar hosted by Lexington, Mass.-based complex event processing (CEP) software vendor…
SocGen Exec: Regulatory Conflict Causing Confusion at Banks
Panelists at the European Trading Architecture Summit (ETAS) in London yesterday said that the extra-territorial reach of US regulation, such as the Dodd-Frank Act and its associated rules, means that banks in other countries are facing serious issues of…
Where Next for Risk and Compliance?
While tools and trinkets are pretty, the key to proper regulatory compliance is attitude and information.
Rogue Trading: Leaving Less to Fate
The destinies of fallen traders Jérôme Kerviel and Kweku Adoboli are a matter to be settled, but what firms' compliance desks should be concerned with is clear: The more you know about a rogue trader, the more he or she begins to stand out.
Soc Gen Exec: "Fatca Is Having Considerable Impact On KYC And Reference Data"
US regulation is forcing firms to establish a more centralized view of their clients and the requirements are likely to mount, as governments around the world seek quid pro quo agreements in relation to the regulation, delegates have heard at the…
Credit Suisse Exec: "Use risk-based approach to data until single-sourcing is possible"
It may not be possible for some time to use vendor feeds as golden sources, according to speakers at this week's European Financial Information Summit in London. Instead, firms should decide which vendors they have the most confidence in for different…
NYSE Appoints Nomoto as Tokyo Chief Representative
Nomoto, who specializes in derivatives, spent previous time at Société Générale, Mizuho Securities, and Barclays.
Société Générale Implements FRSGlobal for Asian Regulations
Technology from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services automates bank's regulatory returns.
Société Générale Appoints Head of Portfolio Trading
Brian Curran joins from RBS to take over portfolio trading and quantitative distribution.
Banks Should Mandate LEI Themselves, Paris Delegates Told
Thomson Reuters' Tim Lind has called on global banks to take the lead in the legal entity identifier project by making the code a requirement for all their clients