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AIFMD is now live
22 July 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The deadline for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive has passed. Alternative investment fund managers established within the EU must have been authorised from 22 July...

New block trading service available via Deutsche Börse
22 July 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Deutsche Börse will launch a new block trading service on Xetra MidPoint on 29 July...

Accenture and Broadridge team up for new post-trade solution
22 July 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Accenture and Broadridge Financial Solutions have collaborated on the launch of a new post-trade solution, signing up Societe Generale as its first client...

Moody's assigns Aa2 rating to State Street receipts
19 July 2013 Nevada
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Moody's Investors Service has assigned a long-term rating of Aa2 to State Street Bank & Trust Co. Custody Receipts, Series 57 relating to Clark County School District...

Citi mandated for Mirae/Horizons ETF
19 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has been mandated by Mirae Asset to provide fund administration, custody and index receipt services for a new ETF platform in the US under the Horizons brand...

First Names Group picks up second purchase
18 July 2013 Jersey
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

First Names Group has completed its acquisition of The Basel Group following exchange of contracts and regulatory approval in Jersey and the British Virgin Islands...

Clearstream signs up LatAm transfer agent
18 July 2013 Panama
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream is seeking to strengthen its business in the LatAm markets, by signing Latin Clear Panama as the first transfer agent to join its investment funds platform, Vestima...

SunGard puts confidence in Poland with new mandate
17 July 2013 Warsaw
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Dom Inwestycyjny Investors S.A. (DI Investors), an independent Polish brokerage house, has selected SunGard’s Valdi to provide a front-to-back trading and direct market access connectivity solution to the Warsaw Stock Exchange...

Traiana gains support of Barclays
17 July 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Traiana, a provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions, announced that its pre-trade clearing certainty initiative continues to gain momentum and has received the support of futures commissions merchants...

Two European CCPs merge
17 July 2013 Amsterdam
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

EMCF and EuroCCP today announce that the sale and purchase agreement has been signed to form a new pan-European cash equities clearing house that builds on the strengths of both firms...

Woodfield Fund Administration mandates for investment managers
16 July 2013 Massachusetts
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Woodfield Fund Administration, an independent, third-party fund administrator, has chosen Smonik RECON to support the portfolio reconciliation needs of their investment management clients...

New Canadian stock exchange competes with TMX
16 July 2013 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Aequitas Innovations has entered the Canadian capital markets to establish a new stock exchange that promises to restore what it calls the “original purpose” of an exchange...