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Diamond Trust Bank

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Business-focused Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) is one of Kenya's most successful lenders of recent years and in 2008 recorded a significant profit increase despite a decline in its share price on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). DTB, along with retail-focused competitor Equity Bank, plans to expand into neighboring east African countries in 2009.
== History ==
DTB was founded in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1945 as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust with branches in Kenya and Uganda and was later split into three separate entities in 1965. In 1972 the Kenyan arm was renamed Diamond Trust of Kenya as a non-bank financial isntitution and in 1997 converted into a commercial bank and renamed Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), focusing mainly on corporate business. The bank further diversified in 2004 into the Kenyan retail banking sector.
== Recent achievements ==
DTB recently boosted its nine-month profit to September 30, 2008 by 32% year-on-year, mostly through a 42% surge in net interest income. Earnings per share grew from 3.37 Kenyan shillings (KSh) in 2007 to 4.45 KSh last year despite a 21% fall in DTB's share price on the NSE in the first nine months, although the NSE itself fell 29% over the period. The International Finance Corp., the private investment arm of the World Bank, last September invested $25 million in DTB to facilitate greater lending to small businesses in Kenya, Bloomberg reported. 
== Key People ==
DTB Chairman Mahmood Manji was appointed to the position in mid-2005 after serving as group chief executive from 1996 to 1999 and then as director until 2004, when he was appointed deputy chairman. He is also chairman of PDM (Kenya) Ltd. and a director of TPS Eastern Africa Ltd. and the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. Prior to joining DTB he was managing director of CFC Bank Ltd.
== Latest News ==
Unlike rival Equity Bank, DTB has decided to grow its new businesses in neighboring countries organically after having problems finding suitable acquisition targets, Chairman Mahmood Manji recently told Business Daily Africa. DTB is currently eyeing immediate expansion into Burundi to add to its Kenya, Ugandan and Tanzanian banking operations but intends building branches their from scratch rather than via takeovers. 
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Diamond hands

"Diamond hands" is a slang term used in the investing community, particularly among retail investors and cryptocurrency enthusiasts, to describe an investor who maintains a strong hold on their investment position despite market volatility, downturns, or pressure to sell. The term gained widespread popularity during the 2021 GameStop short squeeze and has since become a common expression in online investment forums and social media platforms.
== Origin and Usage ==
The term "diamond hands" is believed to have originated on the Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets, a community known for its aggressive trading strategies and unique investing jargon. It began gaining traction around 2018 but rose to prominence during the 2021 meme stock phenomenon.
The metaphor of "diamond hands" draws from the hardness and durability of diamonds, symbolizing an investor's unwavering resolve to hold onto their investments. This stands in contrast to "paper hands," a term used to describe investors who sell quickly at the first sign of market turbulence or potential losses.
== Cultural Significance ==
"Diamond hands" has become part of a broader internet culture surrounding investing, particularly in high-risk assets such as cryptocurrencies and meme stocks. Investors often use the term as a self-description or rallying cry, sometimes accompanied by diamond emojis or memes, to express their commitment to holding their positions despite market fluctuations.
The concept embodies a long-term investment perspective and a high tolerance for risk. Proponents of the "diamond hands" mentality often believe in the future potential of their investments, expecting significant returns over time despite short-term volatility.
== Criticism and Risks ==
While the "diamond hands" approach is often celebrated within certain investing communities, it has faced criticism from more traditional investors and financial advisors. Critics argue that this mentality can lead to significant losses if investors ignore important market signals or fail to reassess their positions in light of changing fundamentals.
The term is most commonly associated with highly volatile and speculative investments, such as cryptocurrencies and meme stocks, where the risks of substantial losses are higher. Financial experts often caution against blindly adhering to the "diamond hands" philosophy, emphasizing the importance of balanced risk management and strategic decision-making in investment practices.
== Impact on Trading Platforms ==
The popularity of the "diamond hands" mentality, along with other trends associated with the r/WallStreetBets community, has had notable effects on trading platforms. For instance, the Robinhood mobile app, which is widely used by members of these online investing communities, has had to implement feature removals and bug fixes in response to user behavior and exploitation attempts.
== References ==
Category:Investing
Category:Slang Investing Terms
Category:Robinhood
Diamondback Capital

Diamondback Capital Management, LLC is an employee-owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles and invests in the public equity markets across the globe. 
The firm employs a global macro and an emerging markets strategy as a hedging technique while making its investments. Diamondback Capital Management was founded in 2005 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
 
== History ==
In November of 2010, the offices of Level Global Investors LP and Diamondback Capital Management LLC, firms founded by alumni of SAC Capital Advisors LLC, were searched by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. FBI raids seeking documents from the three investment firms were said to be related to hedge fund insider trading investigations directed by the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
It was reported on November 30 that Diamondback Capital was served a federal grand jury subpoena about an investigation the FBI is leading into one of their employees. They are complying fully and have put the portfolio manager on leave. 
== Resources ==
LinkedIn Profile
== Key People ==
*Richard H. Schimel, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer
*Lawrence Joseph Sapanski, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer
*Timothy Michael Higgins, Treasurer
*Mark Graban Hadlock, Chief Compliance Officer 
*Andrea Feinstein, Portfolio Manager
== References ==
Category: Hedge Funds
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Diana Chan

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Diana Chan is the former chief executive officer of EuroCCP. She stepped down from the post in July of 2018 after leading the company for 10 years, handing over the title to Cecile Nagel. 
Chan will serve as senior advisor to the chairman of the supervisory board of EuroCCP. 
Chan is noted for integrating EuroCCP Ltd with EMCF after the two merged in 2013 to create EuroCCP NV, a pan-European equities clearing house with trade feed access to more than 80 percent of equity trade flows in Europe.
== Background ==
Before joining EuroCCP Ltd in 2007 and assuming the CEO role at EuroCCP NV in 2013, she served with Citi in London as managing director for market strategy, global transaction services EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and global head of market policy for securities and fund services, a position she assumed in 2005. She also has worked with Citi in Paris as managing director for direct custody and clearing, in New York as global product manager for Securities Services, Broker Dealers and Emerging Markets, and in Singapore as regional product management head, securities services, Asia.
Before joining Citi, Chan worked between 1982 and 1997 for JP Morgan and Bank of New York in Singapore and New York, as well as with Euroclear (then part of JP Morgan) in Brussels. At Euroclear, she was product manager for the U.K. and Asia, manager in Strategic Research, and head of Management Information and Profitability Analysis. From 1977 to 1979, she worked as an account executive for Computer Processing Services Ltd., in Hong Kong.
== Education ==
Chan is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong, where she majored in social sciences. She earned a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.
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Diane Côté

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Diane Fabienne Marie Côté is a risk management professional who formerly served as the chief risk officer of the London Stock Exchange Group. She was appointed to that role and joined the executive team on June 1, 2013.
She also serves as a non-executive director and member of the audit committee for Société Générale.
== Background ==
Côté is a strong supporter of gender diversity in the workplace and she was one of the founders of the London Stock Exchange Group's Women Inspired Network, for which LSEG won a 2016 Women of the Future award.
Côté was named one of the 100 most influential women in finance in 2017 by London’s Financial News.
Before assuming the role of chief risk officer of the London Stock Exchange Group in 2012, Côté was head of risk and audit at the exchange group.
She was a non-executive director and ARC chairman for Novae Syndicates Limited from 2015 to 2018.
Côté has also served as the chief finance operations officer for Aviva plc and the chief audit officer for Aviva.
She spent 10 years with Standard Life, ending as group audit director.
== Education ==
She holds a bachelors degree in Accounting from the University of Ottawa.
== References ==	
Category:Standard Life - Former Employees
Category:Risk Professionals
Diane Eastabrook

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Diane Eastabrook is a staff writer at Haymarket Media US. She is also a freelance contributor to Next Avenue, a website from PBS stations.
Previously, she was a freelance correspondent at Al Jazeera America. 
Previously, she was the Chicago bureau chief and correspondent on PBS's Nightly Business Report. She was laid off from Nightly Business Report when they closed their Chicago Bureau.
In July, 2012, she interviewed John J. Lothian on the futures industry's reaction to the bankruptcy, and subsequent missing customer funds, of the FCM PFGBest. She had been with the program since 1993 and has reported on various topics including the auto industry, manufacturing, agriculture, commodities, housing, and small business. Her features also appear on WTTW's Chicago Tonight.
== Background ==
Eastabrook started out her career in 1982, reporting as a weekend anchor and general assignment for WSAW TV in Wausau, WI. In 1986, she moved to a similar position at Peoria Illinois's WEEK-TV. Eastabrook then moved into the business reporting space when she took a job at WNYT Albany covering consumer scams, product testing and consumer financing up until her start at nightly Business report. 
== Education ==
Eastabrook received a bachelor of arts degree in Journalism from Northern Illinois University in 1982. 
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:PFGBest
Category:Nightly Business Report - Former Employeees
Category:PBS
Diane Garnick

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Diane Garnick is CEO of Clear Alternatives, a female-operated asset management firm. She formed the company in early 2012 with the hope of helping to tilt the balance of the top Wall Street jobs more in favor of women.
 
Upon its launch, the goal of the firm was to raise at least $500 million in assets under management by Dec. 31.
== Background ==
Garnick was previously an investment strategist at INVESCO. She joined the company's Worldwide Institutional team in that position on July 30, 2008.
== Education ==
She earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 
== References ==	
Category:Clear Alternatives
Category:INVESCO
Category:University of Chicago
Diane Genova

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Diane Genova is New York-based bank executive who serves as a managing director and general counsel, Investment Bank, JP Morgan Chase. She has been with the bank since 1981.
== Background ==
She also is a member of, and serves as treasurer to, the board of directors of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
Genova testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Oversight and Investigations Committee on March 28 relating to the MF Global bankruptcy and a $200 million overdraft on a London account that MF Global allegedly used customer funds to cover.
Genova told lawmakers she asked two MF Global officials, General Counsel Laurie Ferber and Deputy Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Dennis Klejna, for a letter indicating that funds transferred from customer segregated accounts to cover the shortfall did not belong to customers. She testified to the Committee that Ferber and Klejna gave verbal assurances that the transfers complied with the rules regarding protection of customer funds, but that JP Morgan never received a signed letter.
== Education ==
Genova holds a bachelor degree in linguistics from Barnard College and a doctor of law degree from Columbia University School of Law.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:ISDA Board of Directors Members
Diane Mix Birnberg

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Diane Mix Birnberg is chairman and partner Horizon Cash Management, a firm she founded in 1991 to manage the cash portfolios for managed futures funds, hedge funds, family offices and institutional investors.
== Background ==
Birnberg has been in the fixed income sector for more than 30 years, and since 1991 has presided over the growth of Horizon which, as of 2013, holds over $2 billion in assets under management. 
== Education ==
== References ==
Diane Saucier

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Diane Saucier is financial services director at Pure Storage. She joined the company in that role in May 2020. 
She was previously senior solutions marketing manager, financial services at Hitachi Vantara, a data and technology services company. 
Earlier, she was client relationship manager at Fitch Learning, based in Chicago. She joined the company in that role in October of 2015.
Earlier, Saucier was head of business development for Celoxica, a low-latency market data, order entry and pre-trade risk technology firm for automated trading firms and brokers. 
Saucier has more than 20 years experience in the capital markets, derivatives and financial technology fields. She is the president and a founding member of the board of Women in Listed Derivatives. 
She currently serves as treasurer on the board of the FIA Technology Division.
She is also a member of the advisory board for John J. Lothian & Company, Inc.
== Background ==
Saucier was an early adopter and proponent of social media. She is an active user of Twitter and has spoken on multiple industry panels on social media in the trading space.
She worked at Trading Technologies for nearly 10 years, most recently as vice president of global market development. She was responsible for expanding TT's global market access as well as for maintaining TT’s strategic relationships with the exchanges.
Saucier joined Trading Technologies in 2003 and had previously held positions at TT as director of product marketing, director of product management and product manager for X_TRADER, TT's flagship order entry product. Saucier has more than 15 years experience in the financial and software industries for both leading vendors and global financial institutions, including positions with GlobalView Software, ABN AMRO and NationsBanc-CRT (now Bank of America).
== Education ==
Saucier graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science.
== References ==	
Category:Trading Technologies - Former Employees
Category:Women in Listed Derivatives
Category:Celoxica - Former Employees
Category:ABN AMRO - Former Employees
Category:John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. - Advisory Board
Diane Schueneman

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Diane Schueneman is an independent director for Penson Worldwide, effective November 29, 2011. She replaced David A. Reed following his resignation, and also took Reed's place on the Board's audit and compensation committees.
 
== Background ==
Schueneman was previously senior vice president and head of global infrastructure solutions for BofA Merrill Lynch from 2006 to 2008. Before that, she was the head of global operations and infrastructure services from 2004 to 2006. Her rise at Merrill began in 1971 when she parlayed early jobs there into a position in fixed-income sales.
Schueneman is also a non-executive director of interdealer broker ICAP plc. She was named "one of the most powerful women of New York" by Crain's New York Business in 2007.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Penson
Diarmuid O'Hegarty

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Diarmuid O'Hegarty is former chief operating officer and deputy chief executive of the London Metal Exchange. He was appointed to that position in October of 2008. In September 2013 he announced he would step down from the post after a six-month notice period.
Diarmuid joined the LME in 1998. He became executive director of regulation & compliance in 2004 and deputy chief executive in 2008. Between 1994 and 1998 he worked in the policy and legal department of the UK Securities and Futures Authority, now part of the Financial Services Authority. 
== Background ==
Before joining LME, he worked as a solicitor in private practice both in Dublin and London. He is a solicitor admitted in England & Wales and in Ireland.
== Education ==
He was educated at Trinity College Dublin.
== References ==
Didier Bouillard

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Didier Bouillard is the chief executive officer at Adenza, a position he assumed following the July 2021 merger of Calypso Technology and AxiomSL.
== Background ==
Bouillard came to Adenza from Calypso Technology where he served as chief executive officer from 2018. 
Prior to Calypso, Didier served as CEO of ULLINK, global provider of connectivity and trading services, beginning early 2015. After revenue growth and profits ULLINK was sold to Itiviti. 
Prior to ULLINK, Bouillard was executive vice president at SunGard Financial Systems and operated a substantial part of the Capital Markets and Electronic Trading Division, playing a key role in global distribution. 
 
Bouillard began his career in the 1990s and has served in the roles of partner, managing director and CEO with (Ubitrade and Capital Fund Management) where he gained extensive knowledge of the capital market industry as well as international exposure.
== Education ==
Ingenieur Civil des Ponts et Chaussees, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees 
== References ==	
Category:Calypso Technology - Former Employee Category:ULLINK - Former Employee Category:SunGard Financial Systems - Former Employee
Didier Varlet

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Didier Varlet is founder and president of Cartesia Financial, LLC. He has over two decades of banking and capital markets experience, both in France and the United States. He has played key roles in the formation of industry firms and has performed consulting services on behalf of exchanges and financial institutions around the world. He maintains Series 4, Series 7, Series 15, Series 24 and Series 63 securities licenses. 
== Background ==
From 1976 to 1986, Varlet served as inspector and chief inspector at Inspection Générale of Société Générale.
From 1986 to 1987, he was manager of derivatives risk at Banque Indosuez Group in Paris. 
In 1987, he moved to Chicago and founded Carr Futures Group (now called Newedge). With only three people, he grew the company into a profitable global brokerage firm that employed close to 800 people worldwide. Carr Futures Group provided institutional clients with efficient access to futures, derivatives and commodity markets throughout the world. 
In 1989, while serving as CEO of Carr Futures Group, Didier realized an increasing demand from his institutional investors to find alternative risk strategies which they could incorporate into their current asset portfolio. Therefore, he developed Carr Global Advisors. This division of Carr specialized in alternative asset management investing in various hedge fund strategies, including long/short equity, special situations, distressed debt, CTA’s and emerging market. 
Carr lost a number of its employees in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, and Varlet was quoted by publications regarding the tragedy. His firm had 143 employees working out of the 92nd floor of the North Tower and about half of them were missing immediately after the tragedy. Carr set up a trust fund for families of the New York victims.
Additionally, Varlet was senior regional officer of Crédit Agricole Indosuez, North America from 2000 to 2002 and was also a member of the Executive Committee of Crédit Agricole Indosuez (now named Calyon). 
From July 2003 to December 2004, Varlet served as the chairman of Ubitrade, which provided derivatives technology for the capital markets industry and was a market leader in advanced systems for trading, risk and operations management. In December of 2004, Varlet was instrumental in the sales negotiations between Ubitrade and its purchaser, GL Trade.
 
Varlet started Cartesia Financial in 2005 as a way to facilitate investment relationships between institutional investors and hedge fund managers located throughout Europe and North America. His extensive background, which includes asset management knowledge, is the foundation for the company. Didier has over 25 years experience in the banking and capital markets both in Europe and the U.S. He is also involved in third-party marketing with Garwood Securities LLC. 
== References ==	
Category:Hedge Funds
Category:Alternative Investments
Category:Commodity Trading Advisors
Category:Commodity Pool Operators
Category:Carr Futures
Category:Carr Futures - Former Employees
Diego G. FernÃ¡ndez

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Diego G. Fernández is the CEO of Rosario Futures Exchange (ROFEX).
== Background ==
Fernandez has served in the post since 2006. He previously headed ROFEX's clearinghouse, Clearing Argentina SA and served an earlier stint as ROFEX operations manager beginning in 1998. 
== Education ==
Fernández is a graduate of the National University of Rosario and a certified public accountant (CPA).
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Exchange CEOs
Category:Rosario Futures Exchange
Diem

Diem is the name of the Facebook sponsored retail payments system that originally was named Libra. 
Missing its planned launch in 2020, the Libra project announced on December 1, 2020 that it had changed its name to Diem, "which," the project said, "denotes a new day for the project." (Diem is the accusative singular case for the Latin word for day. For perhaps obvious reasons, the troubled project did not choose the nominative singular, dies, which in Latin is pronounced "dee es.") The project said that it had strengthened its technology management with the naming of an executive committee for Diem Networks, "a critical step for Diem to operate with appropriate autonomy," according to Diem's CEO, Stuart Levey. Diem was continuing to pursue a license in Switzerland as it concentrated on becoming operationally ready for launch.
By May 12, 2021, Diem had given up on its ambitions in Switzerland and said that it would focus on the U.S. In its announcement of the shift the Diem project said that it was partnering with Silvergate Bank, a federally chartered California bank, which would be the sole issuer of Diem's U.S. dollar stablecoin. The announcement indicated that the Diem Association would move its main operations to the United States and that it was withdrawing its application to Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (or FINMA), Switzerland's financial markets regulator.
== References ==	
Category:cryptocurrency
Category:blockchain
Category:cybersecurity
Category:regulation
Category:Facebook
Category:fintech