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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...

DTCC puts ISO to the test
24 December 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

DTCC has begun testing ISO 20022 inbound instruction messages, with the aim of providing greater accuracy and efficiency to corporate actions processing for its clients...

Opus hires three and acquires AlphaMetrix360
23 December 2013 Bermuda
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Opus Fund Services has hired three senior employees to join its global management team...

Forward redemptions rise in December
23 December 2013 Connecticut
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for December 2013 measured 5.9 percent, up from 5.09 percent in November...

Maria Cristina Ricciardi joins Deutsche
20 December 2013 São Paulo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Deutsche Bank has hired Maria Cristina Ricciardi from Citigroup to act as its head of global transaction banking and head of trade finance and cash management corporates for Latin America...

MarkitSERV reports to Hong Kong's TR
20 December 2013 Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

MarkitSERV, Markit's global electronic trade processing service for OTC derivatives, is reporting interest rates and FX derivative trades to the trade repository operated by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. ...

Walk and talk like a CCP
19 December 2013 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Thinking like a CCP is the way to get ahead in the new cleared OTC world, was the conclusion formed from a recent whitepaper...

CACEIS partner with Pioneer Investments
19 December 2013 Paris
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

CACEIS has been selected by Pioneer Investments to provide asset servicing and administration for the launch of its first French law fund, the Neuflize High Yield International 2018...

Equity hedge fund inflows push industry assets to five-year high
19 December 2013 New York
Reporter: Daniel Jackson

Hedge fund assets under management have reached a 5-year high, according to a report by eVestment. The institutional investment research firm found that hedge funds are on track for assets to rise $256 billion in 2013, an 80 percent increase over th