One in two (49 per cent) financial services organisations plan to recruit for growth in Q3 this year, the highest proportion in two years, and a figure up 13 percentage points on the previous quarter. A further 43 per cent
Michael LaBranche, chairman, CEO, and president of LaBranche & Co. Inc., has been appointed to the board of directors of the Securities Industry Association. LaBranche replaces Myles Gillespie of Fleet Specialist, who resigned. "Mike's experience both working as a specialist
Citisoft has appointed Valerie Nott to work with its management team on new business development and client relationship management. Prior to joining Citisoft, Nott was the Account Director at COR STPS and Group Business Director at 110 (One Ten) where
Richard Eichen has joined Smartstream as General Manager of US Solution Services, based in New York and reporting to Lou Longhi, US Managing Director. Smartstream says Eichen's appointment is "a key services component in the roll out of the company's
MTS has appointed Carlos San Basilio Pardo as Head of Participation and member of the Committee of the CEO of MTS S.p.A. and Chief Executive Officer of MTS Spain. "We are very pleased to welcome Carlos San Basilio Pardo as
BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Jennifer Bertie as Head of its New Zealand Branch, based in Wellington. She will start work on 1 October 2004, reporting to Gail Burke, Head of BNP Paribas Securities Services for Australia and New
State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street, has appointed Ryan Shea as a senior market strategist. Ryan was previously an international economist and currency strategist at Lehman Brothers and Banc One. He joins the
MTS France has appointed Marie Hlne Crtu as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining MTS France, she was with Chase Manhattan Bank and at Cargill Investor Services for ten years in various roles, most recently as Cargill's Chief Executive Officer
Insight Investment has created a new board level risk management role with the appointment of Keith Lovett as chief risk officer. The company claims it is one of very few board level risk appointments in asset management companies and reflects
SunGard Securities Processing has appointed William McLemore vice president of product development for SunGard's Phase3. Phase3 is SunGard's real time securities processing solution for broker dealers and correspondent clearing firms, delivered in an application service provider (ASP) environment. With 22