Jeff Mehlman has joined Foliage Software Systems as Industry Practice Director, Financial Services. Mehlman has 20 years of consulting experience involving strategy, operations, information technology, and organizational change. During Mehlman's career in large scale financial industry information systems development and
Mutual Fund Technologies (MFT), the global transfer agency system provider, has announced that Schroders' Luxembourg has signed a new systems contract that extends Schroders' use of MFT's GFAS transfer agency platform. The new deal confirms GFAS as one of Europe's
State Street Corporation has announced the appointment of Simone Vroegop to its Netherlands sales team. Vroegop will report to Rod Ringrow, senior vice president and managing director of State Street's investor services business in the Netherlands. Prior to joining State
Telekurs Financial and CSK Software have developed a solution to enable banks, fund managers and broker dealers to integrate the Valordata Feed (VDF) reference data feed into their internal processing machinery. VDF is one of the most popular sources of
Investors in Mexico now will be able to buy or sell a mutual fund linked to the performance of the Dow Jones STOXX 50 Index, after STOXX Ltd. issued its first license in Mexico to Santander Serfin, Mexico's third largest
As new Anti Money Laundering legislation comes into force in the UK, a survey of regulatory literacy among City of London practitioners has found a shocking level of ignorance about the risks of wrongdoing. 11 per cent of respondents were
Treasury systems vendor Trema has acquired the assets, including all copyrights and intellectual property, of Alterna Technologies Group. Alterna's liquidity management platform will be integrated into Trema's treasury, risk, cash and asset management product suite. "A resourceful corporate treasury has
Gibraltar based Helvetic Fund Administration has bought the ICON fund accounting platform from Linedata Services. Established in Gibraltar in 1998, Helvetic Fund provides third party mutual fund administration and accounting services to 45 offshore funds with a total asset value
The Japanese Ministry of Finance has published the outcome of the auction of the first series of index linked JGBs. The bonds, which have a ten year tenor (they are due 10 March 2014) carry a nominal coupon of 1.2
Broadstone Capital Group has completed its acquisition of Harvest Global Asset Management, a Dublin based active investment manager which has a significant Life and Pensions business. Founded in 1992, Harvest has over Euros 150 million under management. The Irish Financial