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Lombard Risk Appoints Groetch as Director for the Americas
Lombard Risk Management has appointed John Groetch as its new regional sales director for the Americas.
Liquidnet Appoints Bob Garrett as Head of Technology
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has hired Bob Garrett as head of technology to lead the firm's technical development and for coordinating product developments between the executive team and product managers.
Data Vet Richards Starts New Advisory Firm
Data industry veteran Dale Richards has founded Island 20 Ventures, a Toronto-based advisory firm specializing in financial markets technology, including information products, Big Data, analytics and data management.
Ex-First Derivatives' Richards Starts Advisory Firm
Dale Richards, previously a data management executive and strategist at First Derivatives, has founded Island 20 Ventures, based in Toronto
Estimize Hires Product, Design Heads
Estimize, a New York-based provider of crowd-sourced earnings estimates and mergers and acquisitions predictions, recently hired Josh Dulberger as head of product and analytics, and Cynthia Koo as head of design, to support the creation of its new…
Data Tech Vet McDowell Moves to Ullink
Simon McDowell, a veteran technology and operations executive at several data technology vendors, has joined trading technology and connectivity services provider Ullink as global sales operations director.
CenturyLink Taps Misbin for Co-Lo Marketing
CenturyLink Technology Solutions (formerly Savvis) has hired Judy Misbin as a product marketing executive for the vendor's co-location services, responsible for marketing its hybrid infrastructure solutions that include co-location, managed services,…
Morningstar Promotes Holt to Lead Equity, Credit Research
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has appointed Michael Holt global head of equity and corporate credit research in Chicago, with responsibility for a global team of about 120 research analysts, reporting to Haywood Kelly,…
S&P Cap IQ Boosts Content Acquisition, Partners Unit
McGraw-Hill Financial's S&P Capital IQ division has made three senior hires to its Content Acquisition and Strategic Alliances (CASA) unit, to strengthen the team as the vendor prepares to expand its function to include oversight of content acquisition…
Infinigon Taps Watkins to Grow Sales
New York-based Infinigon Group, a provider of social media analytics aimed at traders and risk managers set up by Belzberg Technologies founders Alicia and Sid Belzberg, has hired Dan Watkins as head of global sales and marketing.
Rimes Promotes Larzillière to President, France
Benchmark and economic data provider Rimes Technologies has appointed Renaud Larzillière the new president of its Paris office.
Sussman Jumps to Liquidnet, Ready to Enter HFT Debate
Liquidnet has announced that Adam Sussman will join as its head of market structure and liquidity partnerships.
Wall Street Network Solutions Gets Another IXnet Vet
Low-latency network provider Wall Street Network Solutions has hired John Faccibene as senior vice president of enterprise solutions to support the vendor's global expansion, officials say.
Infrastructure Provider Adapt Appoints CCO, Sales and Marketing Director
UK-based managed infrastructure and co-location services provider Adapt has appointed Tom Needs as chief commercial officer and Scotty Morgan as sales and marketing director.
ANZ Loses CIO Weatherston
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has announced that its CIO, Anne Weatherston, has stepped down with immediate effect.
MarketPrizm Taps BT Vet Man for Asia Sales
Veteran data and financial network executive Richard Man joined Colt-owned trading and data infrastructure provider MarketPrizm in March as head of sales for the Asia-Pacific region.
Rimes Swipes Swinhoe for Canada Sales
Benchmark managed data provider Rimes Technologies has opened a Toronto office and has hired Paul Swinhoe as a sales manager in Canada to support the vendor's efforts in the country.
Rimes Welcomes Swinhoe to New Toronto Office
Paul Swinhoe, a business development executive with middle-office and market data experience at several service providers, has joined Rimes Technologies as sales manager in the company's new Toronto office
DTCC Adds Four to Board
Executives from Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, KCG Holdings and Goldman Sachs join the 20-member board of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
UPDATE: Canadian Data Vets Found CFSI Advisory, Development Firm; Win Activ Canadian Distribution Deal
Toronto-based startup Collaborative Financial Services Inc, a provider of services that include business development consulting for companies seeking to enter the Canadian market, and an ecosystem of integrated partner products and development…
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Taps Anderson
The fraud detection and systems surveillance provider, formerly known as BAE Systems Detica, has hired James Anderson as president for the Americas region.
Mark Forman Joins Knadel in London
Knadel, the London-based buy side-focused management and technology consultancy, has appointed Mark Forman as head of practice to lead the firm’s expansion into the retail and distribution markets.
Bank of the West Hires Goldberg
David Goldberg, a veteran of data management roles at Santander USA, BNY Mellon and JPMorgan Chase, has relocated to San Francisco from New York, to become chief data governance officer at the firm
Aquis Exchange Hires Head of Regulation
Pan-European equities exchange, Aquis Exchange, has appointed David Attew as head of regulation.