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Euroclear promotes Eliet and Haegeman
21 October 2026 Europe
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The appointments have been ratified by the Euroclear SA/NV and Euroclear Holding Boards, with Guillaume Eliet and Marie-Anne Haegeman expected to take up their roles of CEO and chief risk officer respectively from 1 January 2027

Ebury Institutional adds escrow and paying agent capabilities
21 October 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The service allows Ebury Institutional to act as an independent intermediary, holding funds securely until all conditions of a deal are met

Standard Chartered to acquire Zodia Custody
21 October 2026 UK
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

Following the acceptance of its non-binding offer, and subject to regulatory approvals, Standard Chartered announces it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Zodia Custody

ESMA specifies requirements on post-trade risk reduction services
21 October 2026 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Meeting these conditions allows for certain OTC derivative transactions to be exempt from the clearing obligation under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation 3

SimCorp adds Fiera Capital as Axioma client
21 October 2026 Canada
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

Fiera Capital, an asset management firm, has selected SimCorp’s Axioma Risk and Axioma Portfolio Optimizer to support risk analytics and enhance portfolio construction

Velocity Clearing bolsters Global Markets leadership
21 October 2026 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Dante Ferrarie will lead Global Markets distribution, as well as equities and derivatives outsourced trading, while Michael Capelli will lead global trading product management

Canoe and Landytech partner to automate data delivery
21 October 2026 UK
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

The partnership eliminates manual data entry and delivers structured private markets data into Landytech’s Sesame platform for family offices, trust companies, private banks, and asset managers

Generali Investments launches natively tokenised class of MMF
21 October 2026 Italy
Reporter: Matthew Challis

The fund class has been introduced for deployment within Generali Group’s investment activities, making it the first step in the development of a broader tokenised investment offering

SEC and AMF enter into supervisory MOU
21 October 2026 US
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

The Commission and the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding designed for collaboration between the regulators

UniCredit advances securities services internationalisation
20 October 2026 Italy
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

The firm welcomes 54 securities services specialists from Societe Generale Securities Services in Italy to UniCredit, effective from January 2027

TaxTec Group welcomes Gibson
20 October 2026 US
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

The firm appoints William Gibson as president of its US entity TaxTec Inc., who brings over 45 years of experience across the global financial services industry and investment management

Versana and Allvue partner
20 October 2026 US
Reporter: Madison Hendrickson

By connecting Versana’s centralised digital data platform with Allvue’s trade order management and investment accounting solutions, the firms aim to transform interoperability