Startup payments platform Mash has secured US$6 million in seed funding, co-led by Castle Island Ventures and Whitecap Venture Partners, and including other participatory angel investors
Citi has appointed Alex Todd as head of Securities Services for Europe and Cilian Ó Gógáin has been appointed as head of Securities Services for Ireland
FAB Capital appoints Rainer Kasch as head of Saudi Arabia securities services, where he will be responsible for managing FAB Capital’s Saudi direct custody business and developing the securities services franchise with Saudi-based institutions
AccessFintech has appointed Fabrice Carrier as head of derivatives product line
First Abu Dhabi Bank has partnered with UK-based post-trade and technology company Thomas Murray to provide information on market changes which will be available to subscribers of Thomas Murray’s securities market information database
SETL is to work with SWIFT on an innovation pilot as part of a wider effort to support interoperability in the development of the tokenised asset market
HSBC and IBM have successfully tested an advanced token and digital wallet settlement that included direct transactions between two central bank digital currencies, using the cloud
There is an increasing concern that green finance will cause fragmentation in financial markets in years to come, according to Miles Celic, chief executive of TheCityUK at this year’s Guernsey Funds Forum
Jenna Lomax investigates what the future of securities services holds at a time when it is weighing up different costs to meet a vast array of obligations
Jacob Ullman, associate product manager at Acadia, outlines how AI and chatbots are reshaping derivatives knowledge
AccessFintech’s Roy Saadon discusses the company’s role as a disruptor and how it has grown a community, both in-house and across the wider industry, since its inception in 2016
Ryan Guichon, product head for fund administration and accounting services at RBC Investor & Treasury Services, provides his insights on how fund operating models are evolving to align with today’s dynamic market environment
In a fast-changing post-trade world, the utility model has a part to play. Broadridge’s Vijay Mayadas explains
The Spanish custody market has undertaken a number of initiatives to improve harmonisation and efficiency, and now, with plans to eliminate further market-level specificities, the market moves closer to full post-trade harmonisation with other EU markets
China is an ancient country with relatively young financial institutions. But with its regulation lagging behind its innovation, what is China’s asset servicing outlook?
