Part of Jim McGuire’s job as chief information officer of Charles Schwab Corp. and head of Schwab Technology Services is to vet emerging technologies. He describes the task as “a combination of where do we place bets and where do we take a wait-and-see role.” CIO at the San Francisco–based firm since January 2013, McGuire, 59, is currently weighing a number of cloud computing options, intent on selecting two. “There’s not a huge difference in their technical capabilities,” he says of offerings from the likes of Amazon.com and Microsoft Corp. For Schwab, which has 9.2 million active brokerage accounts and manages $2.35 trillion in client assets, the decision hinges on “which we feel more confident with, in both security and within our regulatory environment.” Schwab itself is a cloud provider of sorts, supporting the back offices of 7,000-plus Schwab Advisor Services clients. A smartphone app launched in February allows investment advisers in the network to put their own brand names on mobile connections with their customers. McGuire, who worked at Schwab from 1997 to 2004 and returned in 2009 after a stint at eBay and its PayPal subsidiary, says cybersecurity is a never-ending battle. “Companies like ours are realizing that [100 percent security] is never going to come.”
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Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange |
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Lance Uggla Markit |
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| Robert Goldstein BlackRock |
David Craig Thomson Reuters |
Phupinder Gill CME Group |
Anna Ewing NASDAQ OMX Group |
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| Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures |
Dan Mathisson Credit Suisse |
Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings |
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| Joe Ratterman BATS Global Markets |
Dominique Cerutti Euronext |
Ron Levi GFI Group |
Gaurav Suri D.E. Shaw Group |
Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing |
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| Lou Eccleston S&P Capital IQ |
Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets |
Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings |
Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings |
Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group |
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| Christopher Perretta State Street Corp. |
Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co. |
Peter Carr Morgan Stanley |
Hauke Stars Deutsche Börse |
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| David Gershon SuperDerivatives |
Chris Corrado MSCI |
Joseph Squeri Citadel |
Tanuja Randery BT Global Services |
John Bates Software AG |
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| Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group |
David Gledhill DBS Bank |
Simon Garland Kx Systems |
Cristóbal Conde FinTech Innovation Lab |
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| Kim Fournais & Lars Seier Christensen Saxo Bank |
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Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. |
Jim Minnick eVestment |
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| Steven O’Hanlon Numerix |
Sebastián Ceria Axioma |
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