GlobalCustodian Blogs
A collection of blogs from journalists at Global Custodian
and experts within the financial services industry
Blogs
Case Blog
A blog from the executive's chair, by Jim Casella, CEO of Asset International
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Editor-in-Chief's Letter
A blog by Dominic Hobson, Editor-in-Chief, Global Custodian
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Marianne Brown
A blog by Marianne Brown, CEO at Omgeo
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New Order
A blog by Tony Freeman, Executive Director, Omgeo, keeping track of Europe’s future supervisory and regulatory framework
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Kevin Ng's Blog
Kevin Ng is the Senior Managing Director of Retirement and Variable Annuity Research at Strategic Insight
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Cook Comments
A blog from Geoff Cook, Chief Executive, Jersey Finance
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Blindly Guessing in the Dark
A blog by Kip McDaniel, Editor-in-Chief of ai5000 at Asset International
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Shaun McGee's Blog
A blog by Shaun McGee, Senior Product Manager Investment Services at Fiserv
How to kill a zombie
Submitted by Dominic Hobson on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 14:17.
Age is rich in disappointments. One is resignation to the immunity of all institutional contrivances to uncongenial ideas. Only this explains why the same solutions to the same problems recur in every generation, despite their proven ineffectiveness. Keynes famously said that the true source of institutional conservatism was not vested interest but the longevity of bad ideas.
Building a High Performance Culture
Submitted by Jim Casella on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 15:45.
Asset International continues to grow through organic growth of our core businesses and brands as well as through acquisition. As we expand, it remains important that the senior management team continues to provide a culture that allows both individuals and teams to perform at a high level and deliver on the goals we have established for the company.
Communities and Global Issues
Submitted by Jim Casella on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 10:36.
In Retirement & Energy Independence: Two Issues to Be Addressed, I called for both political parties to raise the level of discourse to longer term issues that are global in nature and move beyond the rhetoric that one finds during the duratio
A collision with reality
Submitted by Dominic Hobson on Wed, 03/28/2012 - 11:55.
“The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be interest in the means?
European Commission's CSD Proposal
Submitted by Tony Freeman on Wed, 03/07/2012 - 12:48.
Today, the European Commission published its proposal for improving securities settlement and access to central securities depositories (CSDs), the entities that operate settlement systems.
