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NexPoint to administrate Pyxis fund
18 June 2012 Dallas
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

NexPoint Advisors will become the investment adviser and administrator to the Pyxis Credit Strategies Fund. NexPoint is an affiliate of Pyxis Capital, the fund's current investment adviser and administrator...

Confluence creates new leadership roles
18 June 2012 Pennsylvania
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Automated data management solutions provider Confluence has created three senior vice president positions, as well as a HR leadership role...

DST lends China a hand with RQFII scheme
15 June 2012 Shanghai and Hong Kong
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

DST Global Solutions is helping its Chinese asset management clients prepare for participation in the recently launched RQFII scheme through its asset servicing solution HiPortfolio...

Sun International looks to BNY Mellon for ADR programme
15 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

South Africa-based Sun International has appointed BNY Mellon as the depositary bank for its American depositary receipt programme...

Alliance Bernstein begins clearing OTC IRS
14 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The asset management firm is using LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear service to clear its OTC IRS...

Canadian mutual fund manager re-signs with Citi
14 June 2012 Toronto
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Citi has renewed its agreement with Chou Associates Management and will continue to provide fund accounting, transfer agency, custody, and trust and securities lending services for the $600 million that it oversees in mutual fund assets...

SGX CEO bags a new three-year deal
13 June 2012 Singapore
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The Singapore Exchange’s (SGX’s) board of directors has renewed the contract of the exchange’s CEO, Magnus Böcker...

Fidessa issues new regulation white paper
13 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Trading, investment management and information solutions provider Fidessa has released a white paper that examines the regulatory pressures facing the financial industry in Europe...

Euroclear’s eurozone trio sign up to T2S
13 June 2012 Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Eurozone CSDs Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear France and Euroclear Nederland will sign up to the eurosystem's T2S project...

J.P. Morgan offers sec lending services in Malaysia
12 June 2012 Kuala Lumpur
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services is the first international lender in the Malaysian market to offer a securities lending product, it said...

BNY Mellon wins $1 billion Baton Rouge custody mandate
12 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Its asset servicing arm has been named custodian for the Employees' Retirement System of the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which is worth approximately $1 billion...

State Street may acquire Goldman Sachs fund administration
11 June 2012 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

It has been reported that State Street is on the cusp of buying Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund administration business, after Goldman Sachs has been shopping around for several months...