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SWIFT appoints new head of market initiatives
12 March 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT has appointed David Lefferts as managing director of market initiatives for the Americas...

RBC Investor & Treasury appoint Andrea Cecchini
12 March 2015 Milan
Reporter: Becky Butcher

RBC Investor & Treasury Services, part of Royal Bank of Canada, has appointed Andrea Cecchini as managing director in Italy...

Deutsche Börse and BSE improve overseas connectivity
12 March 2015 Mumbai
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Deutsche Börse, Eurex and the Bombay Stock Exchange have extended their strategic cooperation to offer connectivity services to market participants overseas...

IntReal and Bouwfonds select CACEIS as depository
12 March 2015 Germany
Reporter: Becky Butcher

International Real Estate Capital Management has selected CACEIS in Germany to handle the depository functions for its real estate fund within the framework of the German Capital Investment Act...

First accounts move to Ireland’s ICAV funds
12 March 2015 Dublin
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Permal Group is moving some of its British Virgin Island accounts to Ireland, after the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (ICAV) was signed in to law last week...

BNP Paribas to assist French insurer
12 March 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

BNP Paribas Securities Services today has provided CNP Assurances with a first set of look-through reports to assist the insurance company with its Solvency II requirements...

NEPC selects pControl processing platform
12 March 2015 Boston
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Investment consultant NEPC has chosen Milestone Group’s pControl as its core platform to provide end-to-end account processing for its growing discretionary business...

CPMI and IOSCO start stress testing review
12 March 2015 Madrid
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions have begun a review of stress testing by CCPs...

SS&C GlobeOp’s hedge funds make February advance
12 March 2015 Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SS&C GlobeOp has confirmed that the gross return of its Hedge Fund Performance Index for February 2015 measured 2.19 percent, up from 1.18 percent in the previous month...

SGSS secures French insurance mandate
12 March 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Societe Generale Securities Services has been selected by French insurance company IP Valmy to provide custody, depository and valuation services for about €800 million in assets under custody...

OpenGamma reaches out to OTC derivatives industry
11 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Structure solutions provider OpenGamma is partnering up with dealers and other participants in the over-the-counter derivatives market to deliver an open-source solution for bilateral margin...

SunGard moves in to managed investments space
11 March 2015 Minneapolis, MN
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SunGard has launched its new integrated managed investments solution for banks and other wealth advisors, and has implemented it in Minnesota’s community bank, Union Bank & Trust...