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David
Easthope is a senior analyst in Celent’s securities and investments practice
and is based in the firm’s Boston office. He is a Chartered Financial
Analyst (CFA) and member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.
Mr. Easthope’s expertise lies in
securities trading and post-trade systems, including straight-through
processing systems, execution management systems, and corporate
actions processing. He also covers emerging trading topics such as
commission practices and algorithmic trading.
He
is the author of Celent's Corporate Actions Automation vendor report and
has written widely on straight-through processing issues for
broker-dealers.
He has also co-written a report with Octavio Marenzi on the impact
of Reg NMS on ECNs.
His recent consulting work involves advising CIOs and IT planning
teams on issues ranging from electronic trading and the effect on
post-trade systems to spending trends among ECNs.
Mr.
Easthope has been widely quoted in the press, including the Financial
Times (FT Mandate), Reuters, CNN Money, and CNBC.
He
has been a presenter at industry conferences in the US and Canada,
including those sponsored by Financial Markets World, the Securities
Operations Forum, and the UBS Unbundling Conference in Hong Kong. He presented at Omgeo’s 2005 STP Partners Conference
in New York and SmartStream’s Annual User Conference in Boston.
Before joining Celent, Mr. Easthope was a
strategy consultant at Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton and Graves, an
institutional broker-dealer. In this role he led senior management–level
strategic projects, including competitive positioning, development of a
strategic business plan, and customer profiling.
Before joining Detwiler, Mr. Easthope was
an associate financial analyst at Friedman Billings, Ramsey Group,
where he researched financial technology firms for investment
opportunities. He has also served as a senior equity research associate at
Raymond James & Associates covering the financial technology
sector.
Mr.
Easthope received his MBA and BA from Vanderbilt University. He is
fluent in English and proficient in Spanish.
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