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First portfolio compression cycle completed in Singapore
27 November 2012 Singapore
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

TriOptima announces that four member banks of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) successfully eliminated more than 82 percent of the Singapore dollar (SGD) interest rate swaps they wanted to terminate...

Sumitomo Mitsui completes acquisition of Daiwa asset servicing
27 November 2012 Tokyo
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

On the 29 June 2012, SMTB signed a share purchase agreement with Daiwa for two entities, Daiwa Securities Trust & Banking (Europe) and Daiwa Securities Trust Europe...

Interactive Data enables consolidated data feed
26 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Interactive Data has a new version of the Interactive Data RMDS Feed Handler, which hopes to deliver a lower latency consolidated data feed at a reduced total cost of ownership...

Fidessa and Thomson Reuters extend liquidity for buy-side
26 November 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Fidessa is collaborating with Thomson Reuters to provide buy-side traders with access to new sources of block liquidity via the Autex service...

Bedell Cristin scoops up a handful of lawyers
23 November 2012 Jersey
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Bedell Cristin has further strengthened its banking and corporate group through a series of recent appointments of lawyers...

Crescent Hill opts for Wells Fargo
23 November 2012 New York
Reporter: Jenna Jones

Crescent Hill Capital Management has selected Wells Fargo Global Fund Services to provide daily fund administration and an outsourced middle and back office operations solution for its Crescent Hill Asia Opportunities Fund...

UCITS cannot invest in unregulated hedge funds, says Esma
23 November 2012 Paris
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The European Securities and Markets Authority has made its opinion clear on Article 50(2)(a) of the UCITS Directive, the so-called “trash ratio”, which permits UCITS to invest up to 10 percent of their net assets in transferable securities...

Euroclear widens Collateral Highway
23 November 2012 Seoul
Reporter: Jenna Jones

In a continued effort to create the first fully open global market infrastructure to source and mobilise collateral across geographic borders, Euroclear Bank’s ‘Collateral Highway’ has expanded into South Korea...

It’s a miserable month for hedge funds
22 November 2012 Connecticut
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

The amount of clients giving notice to withdraw their cash from hedge funds rose this month, due to relatively weak fund performances...

Lombard Risk launches ComplianceASSESSOR
22 November 2012 London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

A new compliance and audit application will help firms to comply with all applicable laws and regulations irrespective of jurisdiction...

Deutsche Bank bolsters fund services with Deborah Thompson
21 November 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Deutsche Bank has appointed Deborah Thompson as global head of sales for fund services and Robert Coates as a director in the fund services EMEA sales team...

State Street CFO to retire in 2013
21 November 2012 Boston
Reporter: Jenna Jones

State Street’s executive vice president and CFO, Edward Resch, will retire in 2013 after more than 10 years in the role...