Hegarty, managing director and global head of market structure at Thomson Reuters, was previously responsible for strategy at DTCC and before that was an analyst at TowerGroup, so he has an unusually broad view of market direction.

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Thomson Reuters is also changing up its organizational and leadership structure, so that the company will be organized into five divisions, each with a president reporting to Smith.

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