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Kuwait Clearing Company appoints Alex Krunic as CEO
05 October 2022 Kuwait
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Krunic will be responsible for developing post-trade activities and services in the Kuwait region

SWIFT achieves CBDC-to-CBDC transactions between different DLT networks
05 October 2022 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SWIFT said this marks a “major milestone” for the industry toward “enabling CBDCs and tokenised assets’ smooth integration into the international financial ecosystem”

Securities services under geopolitical pressure, say AFME panellists
04 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Securities services are having to adapt faster than ever in the face of unprecedented geopolitical events, increasing regulations, and client demand, say panellists at AFME’s Operations, Post-Trade, Technology & Innovation Conference

Hg gains majority ownership of TrustQuay
04 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Software and services investor Hg has become the majority owner of technology provider firm TrustQuay. Under this new ownership, the current TrustQuay management team will continue in their roles

Federal Reserve Board to launch climate analysis exercise
03 October 2022 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The pilot exercise will launch in early 2023, and aims to improve the ability of supervisors and firms to deal with climate risks by measuring their resilience to a series of hypothetical risk scenarios

SWIFT pilots Securities View to boost post-trade efficiency
28 September 2022 Brussels
Reporter: AST

Service applies an ISO-standard unique transaction identifier to track progress across the trade lifecycle, enabling market participants to identify trades with high risk of settlement failure and to take pre-emptive action

Pomelo set to expand its PPaaS in to Asia and Europe
27 September 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Established in 2017, Pomelo is headquartered in London, with regional headquarters in Singapore and offices in Vietnam, Thailand and Hong Kong

AccessFintech closes Series C funding round
22 September 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Fintech and data services company AccessFintech has completed a US$60 million Series C funding round, led by growth equity firm WestCap

Delta Capita appoints Sen as head of data
21 September 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Riddhi Sen joins Delta Capita as its new head of data, underlining the firm’s focus and investment in its global consulting business and mission to reinvent the financial services value chain

BNP Paribas welcomes John Ferrara to Americas team
20 September 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Based in New York, Ferrara will report to Dennis Bon, head of BNP Paribas Securities Services in the Americas, as well as Alvaro Camunas, global head of client development for BNP Paribas Securities Services

Deutsche Börse confirms creation of first digital instruments in D7 simulation environment
16 September 2022 Germany, Luxembourg
Reporter: AST

Frankfurt-based market infrastructure group has confirmed that it has created its first digital instruments in a simulation environment on its D7 post-trade digital platform

SWIFT begins trial on corporate actions project
16 September 2022 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The project will trial a solution powered by Symbiont’s enterprise blockchain platform, Assembly, to allow asset managers and custodians to automate how they compare corporate action information sent to them from multiple sources