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UK launches accelerated settlement taskforce
09 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The taskforce, announced 9 December 2022, will be headed by Charlie Geffen

Ocorian internally appoints global funds co-heads
09 December 2022 Jersey
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Financial services provider Ocorian has appointed Ben Hill (pictured) and Yegor Lanovenko as co-heads of global funds

Bosonic settles first trade using cross-custodian net settlement
09 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Decentralised financial market infrastructure business Bosonic has settled a USDC and ETH trade using cross custodian net settlement

Emily Portney named BNY Mellon asset servicing CEO
09 December 2022 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Heading BNY Mellon’s largest division, Portney will be focused on increasing client franchise growth and optimising profitability. She will maintain her current position as a member of the executive committee

State Street Global Advisors publishes its 2023 global market outlook
09 December 2022 US
Reporter: Lyndsey Young

State Street Global Advisors has published its 2023 global market outlook on macroeconomic trends and key investment themes for the year ahead

KfW issues first German digital fixed-income bond
08 December 2022 Germany
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The bond has a €20 million volume, a coupon of 2.381 per cent and a term of two years

DTCC publishes 2023 risk predictions
08 December 2022 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Geopolitical risks and trade tensions, inflation and cyber risk top this year’s DTCC Systemic Risk Barometer Survey

FactSet and BMLL Technologies collaborate to provide cloud-based data and analytics
08 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Lyndsey Young

The collaboration is a continuation of FactSet’s strategy to provide innovative cloud solutions to help clients modernise and improve their market data technology

Apex partners with Goji on investor lifecycle platform
08 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

UK-based technology provider Goji has partnered with Apex to offer an investor lifecycle management platform for alternative asset management clients

Volante releases payment modernisation whitepaper
07 December 2022 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The whitepaper, entitled ‘Effective Preprocessing: the path to faster payments modernisation’ and prepared by Aite Novarica, discusses the challenges of payment modernisation

AFME and Protiviti report calls for coordinated approach for further cloud innovation
07 December 2022 United Kingdom
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

AFME cited the management of disruption in the cloud as a significant barrier to further innovation, with several high-profile cloud service outages highlighting the need for greater visibility and confidence in cloud providers’ abilities

Vanguard launches blockchain platform in Australia
07 December 2022 Australia
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Held on R3’s Corda blockchain platform, DLTA provides a single, integrated, back-office solution for global assets