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Broadridge announces acquisition
22 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Broadridge has signed an agreement with Thomson Reuters to acquire the Fiduciary Services and Competitive Intelligence unit from Thomson Reuters Lipper...

SWIFT Institue focuses on Europe
22 May 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Stephen Durham

European mutual funds have embraced outsourcing different types of services, according to new research from the SWIFT Institute...

Barclays promotes Rickards
22 May 2015 Isle of Man
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Barclays has appointed Steve Rickards as head of offshore funds...

Daiwa goes live with Torstone’s Inferno
21 May 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Torstone Technology and Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong (Daiwa HK) have transferred onto Torstone’s post-trade processing platform, Inferno...

AIFMD burden hurting European investment
21 May 2015 Guernsey
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Some fund managers are passing up European investment opportunities in a bid to avoid the AIFMD, according to a panel discussion at the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015...

NSD ‘broadly’ compliant with PFMIs
20 May 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The National Settlement Depository’s (NSD’s), Russia’s central securities depositary, is ‘broadly’ observant overall of the CPMI IOSCO PFMIs, according to an independent third-party review by Thomas Murray...

ENSO expands executive team
20 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Hedge funds service provider Enso Financial Analytics (ENSO) has hired Julian Pittam as head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Stephen Caplen as global COO...

Smaller private equity firms can deliver Alpha
20 May 2015 Guernsey
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Private equity firms should go "back to the future" to deliver on investor demands for Alpha returns, according to chairman and chief investment officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners, Guy Hands...

SocGen Prime Services improves portfolio margining
20 May 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Societe Generale Prime Services has launched a portfolio margining service for clients trading on the CME Group exchange...

NSD’s data project steaming ahead
19 May 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The NSD, Russia’s central securities depository, has completed the latest stage in its project to increase opportunities for users to receive, store and process corporate data...

Euroclear: Collateral is a new currency
19 May 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Collateral mobility and the pricing of collateral assets are the biggest challenges for effectively managing collateral, according to a Euroclear survey...

Cinnober selected for cryptocurrency clearing
19 May 2015 Stockholm
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Financial technology company Cinnober has been selected to provide turnkey solutions for a new cryptocurrency exchange and clearinghouse...