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AST celebrates best in business with former Royal Marine Major Scotty Mills
08 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Scotty Mills, former Major Royal Marine and global keynote speaker (pictured), presented the awards and delivered a thought-provoking keynote speech

ABN AMRO Investment Solutions picks BNP Paribas to provide middle-office services
08 November 2022 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The services will be connected with ABN AMRO Investment Solutions via BlackRock Aladdin, ABN AMRO Investment Solutions’ chosen platform to unify its investment management processes

Standard Chartered and upSWOT launch business analytics solution
08 November 2022 US
Reporter: Lyndsey Young

Through the new solution, Standard Chartered’s SME clients can connect the business apps that they use with upSWOT to generate real-time insights and dashboard analysis using the data aggregated

Rest expands custody mandate with State Street
08 November 2022 Hong Kong
Reporter: Lyndsey Young

The mandate will see State Street provide back office services, including custody, accounting and unit pricing, performance and analytics, tax and regulatory reporting and loan servicing

REGIS-TR partners with Nfq for regulatory compliance
08 November 2022 Luxembourg
Reporter: Lyndsey Young

REGIS-TR adds Nfq to their partnership programme as it continues to expand in the European regulatory reporting space

Sparkasse Bank Malta and Diligencia become GLEIF validation agents
08 November 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation introduced the Validation Agent Framework to enable regulated institutions to leverage their KYC and AML onboarding procedures and help their clients obtain LEIs

Aliph Capital picks Apex for fund administration
07 November 2022 Abu Dhabi
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Aliph Capital, the first female-led private equity firm in the Middle East, has appointed Apex Group to provide fund administration services

LiquidNet continues electronification journey
07 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Execution specialist LiquidNet has completed live deals on its primary market workflow, marking an increase in the company’s use of electronification in the bond issuance process

BlackRock expands Voting Choice programme with Proxymity
07 November 2022 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

BlackRock has announced a partnership with Proxymity to expand its Voting Choice programme, the firm’s proxy voting system, offering a pilot scheme for individual investors in select UK mutual funds

Wealth Dynamix welcomes Darell Miller and Urs Christian Eugster-Schnell
07 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Software company Wealth Dynamix has appointed Urs Christian Eugster-Schnell (pictured right) as commercial director for Europe (DACH) and Darell Miller as managing director for APAC (pictured left)

SEC revises Form N-PX proxy voting reporting requirements for US-registered funds
04 November 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

These reforms are intended to make it easier for investors to compare the proxy voting records of mutual funds, ETFs and other fund entities, including the recall and voting of loan stock

HSBC releases tokenisation platform for digital bonds
04 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The European Investment Bank is exploring the possibility of issuing the market’s “first-ever” GBP tokenised bond, for registration and issuance under Luxembourg law, using HSBC’s new platform HSBC Orion