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TCS and ASX go-live with CHESS
29 April 2026 Australia
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The Clearing House Electronic Subregister System is the system used to facilitate the clearing and settlement of trades in eligible financial products

DTCC and SSImple partner
29 April 2026 US, UK, Hong Kong, Australia
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Through this collaboration DTCC’s ALERT and SSImple’s SSI Comply are brought together to further strengthen data governance and reduce settlement risk

Zema Global appoints Morris, Winston, and Matin
29 April 2026 US
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Tina Morris joins as chief operating officer, Frederick Winston joins as chief financial officer, and Javed Matin has been appointed senior vice president of Go-to-Market Operations

BNY joins CLSNet service
29 April 2026 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

BNY will use CLSNet to support risk mitigation, liquidity optimisation, and operational efficiencies for currency flows outside of CLSSettlement

Montpensier Arbevel fund and CACEIS collaborate
29 April 2026 France
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The Montpensier Arbevel Focus Small 2030 fund participated in the IPO of ST Group on Lise — a market infrastructure in Europe for natively tokenised equities — with CACEIS as depositary

HSBC Saudi Arabia fund administration to include private assets
28 April 2026 Saudi Arabia
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The bank says that this is a move that supports the rising allocation of asset owners, asset managers, and financial sponsors towards private markets

Apex Group partners with Global Tax Recovery
28 April 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Under the partnership, Apex Group will introduce Global Tax Recovery to its clients as a preferred vendor in recovering excess foreign withholding tax on dividends and interest

State Street to launch tokenised fund servicing
28 April 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The capability will extend the firm’s established fund administration, custody, and transfer agency services to support digitally native fund structures within a single institutional operating model

OKX launches a joint framework with Standard Chartered and BlackRock
28 April 2026 UAE
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The framework enables OKX clients to hold collateral in regulated, off-exchange custody while trading on the same integrated venue

Gen II Fund Services gains license from GFSC
28 April 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The license from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission allows Gen II to provide fund administration services for Guernsey-domiciled private market structures

Deutsche Börse Group invests in minority stake in Performativ
28 April 2026 Germany
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Deutsche Börse Group is leading the US$14 million Series A round, with participation from Rabo Investments, Jacob Dahl, and existing investors like FinTech Collective and EIFO

Xceptor appoints Brookshire as CPO
28 April 2026 US
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Sareena Dalla Brookshire will focus on advancing Xceptor’s AI-first product vision and the continued delivery of high-impact, client-led innovation across mission-critical capital markets workflows