Dublin based Cognotec, a provider of automated dealing technology to the forex and money markets, has formed a partnership with Hotspot FXi, a multi bank spot forex marketplace. The partnership will develop a so called Cognotec HotspotFXi CONNECT adaptor, which
One of the side effects of the merger between J.P. Morgan and Bank One is the creation of a giant mutual fund management company with over $205 billion in assets enough to make it the fourth biggest US fund manager,
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Agency (PBGC), the US federal government agency that rescues troubled corporate pension funds, ended 2003 with a deficit of $11.2 billion three times its size at the end of 2002. The PBGC, which insures the pensions
Demand for compliance officers in the US mutual fund industry is soaring in the wake of the series of scandals that have afflicted the business, say headhunters Russell Reynolds, in a study to be published tomorrow. The study also predicts
Sterling Commerce, a provider of business integration solutions, has been awarded the Help Desk Institute (HDI) certificate in recognition of its world class customer support. This follows the earlier recognition of its level of customer support when Sterling Commerce received
Funds under management in China will increase ten fold over the next six years to a total of $1,600 billion in 2010. Or so predicts a study by Hong Kong based research house, Matrix Services. The Chinese capital markets, and
UK life and pensions provider Legal & General is to distribute term life assurance through the J Sainsbury supermarket chain. It follows a similar distribution deal between rivals Norwich Union and Tesco. The products will be sold not only in
Aon Consulting has been chosen by the Trustees of Kellogg's (Great Britain) Pension Fund to manage the administration of their UK pension scheme. Aon Consulting will take over officially from incumbents Watson Wyatt on 1 April 2004. "This appointment is
Russell Mellon CAPS says that Kieger AG an investment consultancy firm based in Lugano, Switzerland has signed up to use its AMI fund manager database as part of its research process. Kieger has recently expanded its operations into the Italian
Xenomorph, a financial data management and analytics supplier, has appointed Greg Johnson as director of sales and marketing. Johnson has spent more than 20 years in sales and marketing roles in financial IT. Having started his career with Burroughs, where