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I was sad to hear of Mark Schaedel’s departure from NYSE Euronext, where he has been head of market data for the past several years. Schaedel, based in Amsterdam, has been leading a bunch of innovative projects there, aiming to tap into the wealth of meta-data the exchange generates as a byproduct of its ‘market’ pricing and reference data.
Michele Spong, until last October Executive Director, Global Information Services at Nomura International in London, has emerged as part of the research team at FTSE international. Spong spent almost 20 years working with market data at Nomura, having joined the firm in 1992.
John Bottega has left the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he was chief data officer of its Markets Division, to join Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a similar role. Bottega is one of a handful of visible chief data officers, and his arrival at the Fed was hailed as industry recognition of the need for a keeper of an institution’s data assets.
Just when you thought it was safe, and Thomson Reuters had seen the worst of the organisational turmoil that has beset it since the departure of Markets CEO Devin Wenig in the summer, the company has announced the new, flatter organisation it will adopt on January 1. There is no place for CEO Tom Glocer, who is retiring.



















Before we were rudely interrupted by the Christmas holidays – lovely, thanks, and you? – we were speculating about the emerging structure and population of the executive ranks within president David Craig’s new Financial & Risk operating unit of Thomson Reuters, in essence the successor to the former Thomson Reuters Markets. At least some dust has settled since Craig’s December 19 publication of an organisation chart for his group, so we are able to offer some of the highlights.
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