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State Street continues transformation project with AWS and Microsoft
30 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

State Street has selected Amazon Web Services and Microsoft to provide cloud and infrastructure solutions as part of its technology transformation strategies

Archax introduces custody service for digital assets
30 January 2023 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Targeted at professional investors and institutions, the solution will provide custody services for cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens and digital securities, as well as traditional securities and client cash

Transcend bolsters advisory board
30 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Analytics and automation provider Transcend has announced a series of senior appointments, with Stephanie Dimarco, John Willian and Scott Freidenrich (pictured) joining its advisory board

ABS picks EDB for digital banking
30 January 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Arab Bank (Switzerland) has selected Apex subsidiary EDB to provide digital banking services to 32 bank accounts across 14 SPVs)

Oksana Kulish joins PrivatBank
30 January 2023 Ukraine
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Ukrainian commercial bank PrivatBank has appointed Oksana Kulish as head of custody services

SC Ventures, LBBW and Comyno take stakes in DekaBank’s SWIAT
27 January 2023 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The joint venture aims to create a uniform standard for processing blockchain-based securities, providing software that will form a decentralised financial infrastructure and frictionless, real-time settlement for derivatives and bond issuance

Paralel launches full-service platform
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Fintech firm Paralel has gone live with a new full-service platform for registered fund servicing, the first of its type to be launched in more than 20 years

ESMA provides comment on Europe’s sustainability reporting standards
27 January 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

ESMA has stated that EFRAG's first draft of European Sustainability Reporting Standards is ‘broadly capable’ of meeting investor protection and financial stability objectives

60% of c-suite developing new ESG products in 2023, says FIS
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The report, entitled 2023 Global Innovation, found that ESG is top of mind for financial services firms globally, with c-suite executives planning to invest significantly in ESG frameworks for the year ahead

Silvestre Fontes rejoins SEC’s Boston office
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed Silvestre Fontes as director of its Boston office, effective next week

ICMA publishes new post-trade framework for EU-traded sovereign bonds
26 January 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ICMA says the initiative will help to inform the current discussions among policy makers in the ongoing MiFIR review, and should help “pave the way for the inclusion of meaningful, well-calibrated” sovereign bond data in the EU bond consolidated tape

OptionsDesk onboards ION’s XTP suite
26 January 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The suite, consisting of ION’s XTP Trading, XTP Clearing and XTP Cleared Derivatives solutions, will help to facilitate OptionsDesk’s growth plans