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J.P. Morgan to service new Africa fund
03 February 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

J.P. Morgan will provide fund administration and custody services to a new closed-ended fund launched by the Duet Group and Standard Bank...

Deutsche Bank and Traxis launch UCITS fund
03 February 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Deutsche Bank and Traxis Partners ("Traxis") have announced the launch of a UCITS compliant version of the Traxis Global Equity Macro fund.

State Street announces appointments
03 February 2011 Boston
Reporter: Justin Lawson

State Street Global Markets, the investment research, trading and securities lending arm of State Street Corporation, has announced several transition management appointments to its global Portfolio Solutions Group.

ConvergEx launches new full-service office
02 February 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

ConvergEx Group, has announced that Eze Castle Software has launched a new full-service office in Chicago, Illinois for its order management system, the Eze OMS™. The new office will provide full support for Eze OMS clients in the greater Midwest r

Behan Deutsche bound
02 February 2011 London
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Deutsche Bank have appointment Simon Behan as head of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in its Alternative Fund Services business (AFS), part of the Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division. Based in Dublin he will report to Stuart

10.4 million contracts per trading day at Eurex in January
02 February 2011 Frankfurt
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Significant growth year-on-year for equity and interest rate derivatives segments at Eurex Exchange...

Finadium launches new white paper
02 February 2011 Concord
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Finadium has launched a new white paper examining custody costs for ERISA plans...

Northern Trust wins Lothian mandate
01 February 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Northern Trust has been appointed to provide global custody, securities lending, and related services to US$5 billion (more than GB£3.2 billion) in pension fund assets for the Lothian Pension Fund, one of the top 10 Local Government Pension Schemes

Three new banks to offer custody in Qatar
01 February 2011 Doha
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

HSBC, Qatar National Bank and Standard Chartered have been approved to provide custody services at Qatar Exchange from February 2011...

Paitchel appointed as Executive Director at KB Associates
01 February 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

KB Associates, a leading consulting firm to the asset management community, announces the appointment of Jill Paitchel as Executive Director. She joins the New York office.

Bamonte promoted at Union Bank
31 January 2011 San Francisco
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Union Bank's senior vice president Marianne Bamonte has been named manager of the Institutional Services division...

BTPSM goes live with Algo Risk Service
31 January 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

British Telecommunications Pensions Scheme Management (BTPSM), which oversees the UK’s largest private sector pension scheme, has gone live with Algorithmics for risk management purposes across its major asset classes and liabilities...