DST Global Solutions’ Harries Discusses His New Risk Management and OTC Derivatives Focused Role

Geoff Harries DST Following the appointment of Geoff Harries as the new global head of asset servicing for its Investment Management Solutions (IMS) business earlier this month (see here), DST Global Solutions is hoping that the ex-Fiserv exec will bring his experience to bear on his new OTC derivatives and risk management focused role. Harries speaks to A-Team Insight 20 days into his new role, which involves responsibility for the vendor’s product strategy for its investment accounting platform HiPortfolio and its OTC Lifecycle Manager solution.

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12 Mar 2010
 
Kinetic Partners Recruits Szylar from RBS, Focuses on Modular Approach to Enterprise Risk Management

Christian Szylar Kinetic Partners Kinetic Partners has added a new face to its team, ex-RBS Portfolio Risk Services MD Christian Szylar, to lead the vendor’s efforts in the risk modelling and valuations space. The vendor has been stepping up its approach to the market by touting its modular approach to risk management as a more practical way to meet new regulatory requirements, such as those under UCITS IV, and is hopeful that Szylar will boost its chances of success.

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04 Mar 2010
 
Standard Bank Establishes Data Governance Board, Puts Data Management on Agenda

South Africa’s Standard Bank is at the start of its data management journey and has recently set up a data governance board to focus on the pertinent issues, according to Andy Simpson, head of international reference data at the bank. The reference data management function is now part of the bank’s operations team and although it has the responsibility to understand the usage of the data, it has not yet been put in charge of managing the data centrally.

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22 Feb 2010
 
BarCap Adds ABN Amro’s Thomas to Entity Data Role and Nagle as New Head of Data Quality

Barclays Capital has promoted ex-project manager for global reference data Llew Nagle to the brand new position of head of data quality for the bank and added ex-ABN Amro entity data specialist David Thomas as a vice president in charge of client data. In their new roles, Nagle is responsible for the management of data quality for the investment bank and Thomas is responsible for client data.

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18 Feb 2010
 
Sophis Promotes Simiu to Sales Manager for France, Belgium, the Netherlands and North Africa

Following last week’s appointment of ex-asset manager Marc Bothwell to its product development team (see here), risk management and valuations solution vendor Sophis has promoted another exec, Edgar Simiu, to strengthen its sales efforts in key European markets and new markets in North Africa. Simiu, who is currently a professional services manager for the vendor’s valuations solution, Value, will take on the role of sales manager for France, Belgium and the Netherlands and will also be responsible for targeting new markets in North Africa.

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02 Feb 2010
 
HSBC’s EDM Head Hinds Departs for Pastures New

HSBC’s data management champion and regular FIMA speaker Sally Hinds is leaving the bank this week after more than four years as global head of EDM of HSBC Global Banking & Markets. Although she has not yet indicated where she will resurface, it is likely she will continue her career in the data management world.

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28 Jan 2010
 
IASC Foundation Issues IFRS Taxonomy for XBRL Format

The end of last year saw the publication of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) Foundation’s International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Taxonomy 2010 Architecture Draft, which details the XBRL architecture and design rationale for the taxonomy. The comment period on the draft has ended and the final release date for the taxonomy that will provide the backbone for financial reporting in the XBRL format will be April this year.

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21 Jan 2010
 

 
 

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