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New Dubai office for eVestment
25 September 2014 Dubai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Analytics provider eVestment is to open a new Dubai office to meet growing investor interest in traditional, alternative managers in the Middle East and Africa region...

DTCC and FS-ISAC tackle cyber threats
24 September 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

A joint venture has been created between the FS-ISAC and the DTCC, to develop and market automation solutions that advance cyber security capabilities...

Industry must engage to meet RDR needs
24 September 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

According to a new study by the ALFI and Fundscape, the most important lesson to be learned from the UK’s experience of the RDR is that positive engagement between all parties creates easier processes...

Barclays fined for failing to protect assets
24 September 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Barclays Bank has been fined nearly £38 million by the Financial Conduct Authority for failing to properly protect clients’ custody assets, worth £16.5 billion...

SmartStream wins TLM Reconciliations SEC contract
23 September 2014 Washington DC
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

SmartStream has been awarded a contract by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to furnish SmartStream’s TLM Reconciliations Premium solution to the SEC’s office of compliance inspection and examinations (OCIE)...

Euroclear and SIX partner for Swiss clients
23 September 2014 Zurich
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

SIX Securities Services and Euroclear Bank have joined forces in a co-operation initiative to provide more cost- and risk-efficient fund services to Swiss investors...

Role expansion for Bravura's Stevens
23 September 2014 Melbourne
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Bravura Solutions’ global director of strategy, Darren Stevens, is getting an expanded role to director, product management and strategy for global wealth management...

Sparinvest automates with SunGard
23 September 2014 Copenhagen
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Denmark-based asset manager, Sparinvest, has selected SunGard’s XSPrisa to automate its global corporate actions processing...

NSD launches pre-LEI website
23 September 2014 Moscow
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Russia’s central securities depositary, the National Settlement Depository (NSD), has launched a pre-legal entity identifier (LEI) website...

Japanese bank switches to Lombard's REPORTER
23 September 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Lombard Risk Management has announced that a large Japanese bank has switched from rFrame to Lombard Risk’s REPORTER service for Bank of England regulatory reporting and compliance...

Enhanced service for UK pension funds
23 September 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

BNY Mellon and Redington are teaming up to offer Redington’s pension fund clients an enhanced asset and liability risk reporting service...

Europe expected to produce most client growth
22 September 2014 Boston
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

In a recent survey, Aite Group has shown Europe is expected to produce the most client growth for asset servicing firms over the next 3 years...