Neale Vernon âBuzzyâ Rossman, window washer, water skier, golfer and well-known Key West character succumbed to a long battle with heart disease on Feb. 20, 2021, at hospice in Jacksonville. He was 76 years old.
Buzzy was born in Salem, New Jersey on May 1, 1944. âHome of the tomato,â he would proudly tell folks. Of his Garden State upbringing, he said he got the water boiling before he picked the corn.
Following a stint in Vietnam as a radio technician during the war, he ventured down to Coconut Grove and eventually Key West. In the mid 1970sâ he became the sole employee of Wistarburg Window Wipers. His office was a tall pink bicycle with a big white box on the back for the tools of his trade. His kickstand was a squeegee pole extender that ran through a fishing rod holder and slid up and down with a clamp. He kept the windows of Duval Street clean and ate free at most of his restaurant accounts. He had a knack for getting the deal, little or no rent, at t
Your guide to 2021 in securities services part four: Technology
Global Custodian has compiled a series of predictions for 2021 from some of the leading voices in the securities services industry, part four focuses on
technology.
Mark Wootton, regional head of local custody and clearing in APAC, BNP Paribas Securities Services
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) remains firmly on the agenda for 2021 and we expect to see projects continue with renewed vigour following some inevitable delays during the COVID-19 pandemic. Across APAC, we are seeing an increasing number of organisations complete small-scale projects to proof the technology, using this as a building block for further development. A lot has been said about infrastructure replacements, but it is in these tactical executions we will see DLT utilised to reduce stop points, or manual interventions in processing, which will help boost efficiency and reduce risk. We also expect to see further growth in smart contracts, as