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Forestry mandate nabbed by Northern Trust
07 January 2014 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Northern Trust has snapped up a forestry pension plan mandate originally maintained by RBC Investor Services...

ALPS creates fixed income fund
07 January 2014 Colorado
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

ALPS has launched an open-end mutual fund designed to protect principal while producing high current income...

OneChicago sees record breaking results in 2013
06 January 2013 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Equity finance exchange OneChicago has confirmed a December 2013 volume of 1,174,205 and a total volume of 9,515,194 for 2013...

Eurex pays out for Taiwanese futures exchange
06 January 2014 Taiwan
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Eurex is acquiring a $47 million stake in theTaiwanese futures exchange TAIFEX, in a step forward for Deutsche Börse Group’s Asia strategy...

Susan Martin is new CEO of the LPFA
06 January 2014 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The London Pensions Fund Authority has made the appointment of Susan Martin as CEO official. Martin has been interim CEO since August, and was previously deputy CEO...

SGX experiences trading peak for derivatives
06 January 2014 Singapore
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Singapore Exchange (SGX) recorded trading highs in derivatives trading for 2013, but noted that securities trading has declined...

OCC announces cleared contract volume of 4.2 billion
03 January 2014 Chicago
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

OCC cleared contract volume reached 4,170,855,768 contracts in 2013, up 3 percent from the 2012 annual volume...

Eurex trading volume down in 2013
03 January 2014 London
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group ended 2013 with a turnover of approximately 2.2 billion contracts, a reduction of 100 million year-on-year...

Monte Titoli goes for SWIFT
03 January 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Italy’s central securities depository Monte Titoli has selected SWIFT’s MyStandards as its platform for standards-related communication to its customers...

Russian depository rated as low risk
02 January 2014 Moscow
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Thomas Murray, the custody rating, risk management and research firm, has maintained the CSD rating for Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) at AA-, which translates as ‘very low overall risk’...

SGX is greenlit for derivatives clearing
02 January 2014 Singapore
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has become the first Asian clearinghouse authorised as a derivatives clearing organisation by US derivatives regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...

Mauritian fund administrator chooses eFront
24 December 2013 Mauritius
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

International Financial Services (IFS) in Mauritius has chosen eFront’s solution FrontInvest to support its private equity fund administration operations...