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Guernsey funds increase year-on-year

28 September 2016 St Peter Port
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The net asset value of all funds under management and administration in Guernsey stood at £247.1 billion at the end of June 2016, an increase of £9.1 billion since the end of March, according to the GFSC...

Russia’s NSD earns first ‘premier' status from SWIFT

21 September 2016 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository, has become the first Eastern European bureau to earn SWIFT’s 'premier' certification status...

CUSIP raises the gold bar

19 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

CUSIP Global Services has paired up with the Delaware Depository to apply its security identifiers used for tracking and trading in the equities and fixed-income markets to gold bars...

KCG closes Neonet acquisition

19 September 2016 Stockholm
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

KCG has completed its acquisition of Swedish agency broker and insurance firm Neonet Securities...

Gibraltar exchange gains HMRC recognition

16 September 2016 Gibraltar
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange has been acknowledged by the board of the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs as a ‘recognised stock exchange’...

T2S wave three must be a success, says BNY Mellon

12 September 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The third wave of T2S implementation will be the tipping point that decides whether the project justifies the investment in the platform, according to BNY Mellon’s Tom Casteleyn...

SEC charges ARCP executives

09 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Shirley Fehr Rodriguez

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged two former accounting executives with overstating the financial performance of a real estate investment trust...

Brazilian exchange joins R3

07 September 2016 São Paulo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Brazil’s BM&FBovespa has become the first exchange to join the R3 network to pursue market uses of distributed ledger technology.

BNP Paribas commits to responsible investment

07 September 2016 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

BNP Paribas Securities Services has signed up to the principles for responsible investment (PRI)...

FIMA: Data governance ‘vital’ for regulation

30 August 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Data governance is ‘vital’, particularly with regards to risk management and regulation, according to a survey of data managers by FIMA and GoldenSource...

DNB and Nordea combine forces for Baltics

25 August 2016 Riga
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Nordea and DNB are set to combine their operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a bid to create a new bank in the Baltics with strong Nordic roots...

Bank of Japan: Fintech the future for financial services

24 August 2016 Tokyo
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) are likely to play a large part in financial services in the future, according to the governor of the Bank of Japan...

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