http://www.rulefinancial.com Rule Financial Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:20:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   A new face at Rule is that of LARRY MINDEL, leader of the company's new Payments practice. Larry has previously held leadership positions with IBM, JP Morgan, Royal Bank of Canada, Gemini Consulting, Capco and EDS. He's a specialist in business transformation – merging banks, transforming their banking operations, devising and ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/mindel-launches-payments-practice/ Rule Financial hosted a seminar at the City of London Club last month where leading members of the City’s collateral management community gathered to hear guest speakers compare experiences and enjoy rooftop refreshments on a delightful May evening - just before the last mini-heatwave before this one broke. Michael Cyrus, Co-Managing ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/rule-seminar-sparks-collateral-initiative/ Rule Financial moved from its previous home at New Broad Street at the end of March and we are now in our newly refurbished office at 101 Moorgate. The move team, led by Finance Director Patrick Gracey, featured Michael Wood (Project Manager) and Rob Collins (IT) who were aided by other Rule staff along with the fit-out contractors ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/rulemoorgate/ Matthew Harrison, founder of the Martini trading platform for bond and equity securities financing, has joined the securities finance practice at Rule Financial.   Harrison returns to the Securities Finance arena after a 3-year sabbatical following the sale of Martini to Sungard. Announcing the appointment, Rule Financial’s Head of Securities Finance, David Little, ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/martini-founder-joins-rule/ Managing Consultant Justin Richards is leading a major project at one of our clients which borders on the positively epic. The system we’re developing will handle every derivative trade across multiple asset classes, and every traded loan in the bank, as well as many of the cash trades. At any one time this can ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/rule-expertise-saves-client-millions-of-euros/ Rule Financial is on course to smash its 2007 target by taking turnover past the £18m mark,  as the company's growth rate soars in excess of 80%, it was announced recently. At Rule’s regular half-yearly evening meeting hosted in the elegant surroundings of the National Liberal Club at 1, Whitehall Place, CEO and founder Marcus Rule presented figures ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/on-course-for-18-million/ Rule Financial has been recognised as a Certified Implementation Partner by Linedata Services, whose Beauchamp software suite offers hedge funds and alternative investment traders a highly configurable and scalable portfolio management system. This recognition follows Rule's successful implementation of Beauchamp systems in four European hedge funds, with several more currently in ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/rule-financial-recognised-as-certified-implementation-partner/ Hong Kong's securities watchdog has committed itself to simplifying the licensing requirements for overseas hedge fund managers looking to set up in the former British colony. Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said the changes include speeding up the licensing process for some U.S. and UK-registered hedge fund managers, and exempting ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/hong-kong-continues-to-cut-red-tape/   Blue Riband Rabobank, from left to right: Darren Smith, Dave Taylor, James Matthews, Sarah Bailey, Ella Kempster, Kerry Peacock, and Jason Millard. A fiendishly talented team from Rule's clients Rabobank are celebrating their greatly improved performance at this year's Microsoft UK Challenge event. Careful study of the photograph above shows that having ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/rule-sponsors-top-40-team/ Rule Financial raced clear of the field in Securities Finance IT consultancy with the arrival last month of Alec Nelson.  Alec has been an authority on the development of Stock Borrow Loan systems since the earliest days of the securities finance sector.   After nearly two decades with investment bank Morgan Stanley,  most recently as a distinguished Head of International Securities Lending, his decision to join Rule delivers extra ... http://www.rulefinancial.com/nelson-comes-aboard/