The Boston Options Exchange will take votes from its board members on executive and compensation committee appointments electronically.
J.P. Morgan Treasury Services has appointed Daniel Cotti its global trade services executive in charge of setting and executing global strategy for trade and supply chain offerings.
RBC Wealth Management recently hired Tim Cowdrey as branch director of its Scottsdale, Ariz., office.
UBS has hired Jonathan Golub as a managing director and equities strategist in the Strategy & Valuation group.
Wells Fargo Advisors has hired Andrew Lewis from UBS Wealth Management. He will be based in the Vienna, Va., office.
Options brokerages expect the symbol consolidation process, scheduled to take place after the full symbology transition on Feb. 12, to go smoothly.
The Options Clearing Corp. may be more open to the possibility of delaying the implementation of an expanded industry-wide options symbology.
Broadridge Financial Solutions, a provider of technology-based outsourcing solutions, is preparing to launch its Global Corporate Actions Solution platform with its first client in the third quarter.
Omgeo, the joint venture between the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. and Thomson Reuters, is readying a set of enhancements to its Omgeo Alert platform that should improve settlement between brokers and investment managers.
The International Securities Lending Association expects to release a final version of the global master securities lending agreement in the next few months.
Acupay, a tax reclaim services company, has expanded the platform to cover more countries.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has made pricing securities at market value optional in guidance from March.
A switch to international financial reporting standards is being backed by many U.S. companies in spite of the fact that plans to make the move appear to be struggling.
SimCorp StrategyLab is looking at operational and cost issues in its next round of research reports.
BNP Paribas Securities Services is preparing to expand its global clearing services into Hong Kong, Singapore and India.
Nasdaq Stock Market plans to launch a pilot program for real-time quotation data as an alternative to consolidated Level 1 data.