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ESMA to focus on risks and fair fees in 2015
17 February 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

ESMA will prioritise minimising systemic risk for credit rating agencies in 2015 and 16, while investigating data quality and fees charged by trade repositories...

95% of asset managers confident about 3-year growth
17 February 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset management company CEOs expect revenue growth in the near future, with 88 percent feeling confident about growth in 2015, and 95 percent saying they are confident about the next three years...

IOSCO to sign MOU with Russia
17 February 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions will sign a multilateral memorandum of understanding with Russia, regarding interactions in the financial market...

Hack highlights holes in cyber security
17 February 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

A string of cyber attacks that saw about $1 billion stolen from banks affected 100 banks, e-payment systems and other organisations in a two-year period, according to an investigation by Kaspersky Lab...

Allen & Overy expands Frankfurt team
16 February 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Allen & Overy has further expanded its German capital markets practice with the hire of Christoph Enderstein who will join as partner...

Leap in broker fees imminent, says Catalyst
16 February 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Banks may be forced to increase their capital broker fees from the typical 1-2 percent to 14 to 15 percent under increasing regulations around leverage ratio...

GEPF chooses Standard Bank
16 February 2015 Pretoria
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The South African Government Employees Pension Fund has chosen Standard Bank to provide custody and recordkeeping services for its 1.5 trillion rand of assets under management...

BNP Paribas names new head of Australia and NZ
16 February 2015 Australia
Reporter: Becky Butcher

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed David Braga as head of Australia and New Zealand...

Eurex launches new futures contracts
16 February 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The international derivatives market Eurex Exchange has launched 31 new single stock dividend futures contracts to enhance its derivatives product suite...

ASEAN Exchange to build online presence
16 February 2015 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The CEOs of the ASEAN Exchange members met with the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in Kuala Lumpar to discuss greater digitalisation and social media...

First birthday celebrations for KDPW
13 February 2015 Warsaw
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The KDPW Polish trade repository accepted more than 105 million reports of 25.5 million trades in derivatives in its first year in business...

Finland state pension fund selects Danske Bank
13 February 2015 Copenhagen
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Danske Bank PLC has been appointed as custodian for Finland’s state pension fund...