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Standard Chartered hires two ex-Citi staff for OTC regs
27 November 2013 London and Singapore
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Standard Chartered has created a new client-focused unit within its financial markets business to provide optimisation of pricing and execution, access to liquidity hubs, client clearing, and an array of portfolio services within the derivatives mark

First Names Group appoints a new Associate Director
22 November 2013 Jersey
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

First Names Group, the trust, fund and corporate services provider, has appointed Tom Hardman as its Associate Director in the firms Jersey office...

Citi scores mandate with Canada's broadcasting corporation
20 November 2013 Toronto
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has been selected to provide custody and administration services to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Pension Plan, the first mandate of its kind for Citi in Canada...

Citi pulls out Spanish stock exchange membership card
18 November 2013 Madrid
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has become a direct member of the Spanish Stock Exchange, under the new trading, non-settling membership category...

Moody's revises ratings of 8 largest US banks
18 November 2013 New Jersey
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Assumed government support in the wake of the US Dodd Frank Act has led Moody’s to conclude its review of eight large US banking groups in a mostly positive light...

Citi mandates Maria Boyazny's PE firm
15 November 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has been mandated to provide private equity administration services to MB Global Partners, a New York-based private equity firm founded by Maria Boyazny...

Citi pounces on novel Colombian ETF
13 November 2013 Colombia
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Cititrust Colombia S.A. has been appointed by Horizons Exchange Traded Funds to provide global custody and fund administration services for its Fondo Bursátil Horizons MILA 40 de S&P...

Northern Trust hires for Dublin TA team
31 October 2013 Dublin
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Northern Trust has made two senior appointments in its Dublin-based transfer agency team...

Vietnam Equity Fund launched with BNP Paribas’s aid
29 October 2013 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

BNP Paribas Securities Services has supported the successful launch of the first UCITS-compliant, actively managed Vietnam equity fund...

Calastone snaps up ex-SWIFT employee
25 October 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Edward Glyn has left SWIFT after nearly a decade to join Calastone as managing director and head of global client relationship management...

Complacency threatens to rock reconciliation
24 October 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Industry-wide complacency and unsystematic monitoring are hampering efforts to achieve smarter operational efficiency for optimising enterprise reconciliation, said a new survey...

Calastone recruits ex SWIFT head of funds
23 October 2013 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Edward Glyn is joining Calastone as managing director and head of global client relationship management...