Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

The fortitude of the Microsoft capital markets team was on display in the English Channel on July 13, when Craig Saint-Amour, director of U.S. Capital Markets swam across the channel as part of a relay team with his daughters Melissa Saint-Amour and Roberta Saint-Amour, both of whom also have careers in the financial industry. The trio ... Full story

  Mark Abbott discussed how Raymond James is focusing on providing better customer facing services for its financial advisors and at the same time providing operational efficiencies and costs savings. Microsoft is a key partner in this strategic effort through their implementation of CRM/SharePoint/BI. Participants in the Wealth Management CEO Breakfast Roundtable: Natalia Tchetchoulina, Vice President, Barclays Bank Dennis Layden, Pershing Joe Giglia, Market Executive, Wells Fargo / Wachovia Frank Minerva, ... Full story

Microsoft's New GM of U.S. Financial Services Colleen Healy Sees Big Opportunities for Financial Firms in Lean Times Last year, when Colleen Healy was Microsoft’s general manager of investor relations and spending lots of time every day with portfolio managers, she spent much time talking with analysts about risky asset-backed instruments issued by U.S.-based financial ... Full story

The markets are fragmenting, transactional volumes are exploding, costs are rising and so too are clients’ demands as firms confront regulatory demands, new technologies, whether to build, buy or outsource – and now there’s cross-asset trading. Through it all, reference data at its core continues to be about descriptive transactional information. For senior reference ... Full story