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Swiss banks advance tokenisation PoC as foundation for alternative financial infrastructure
13 December 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

Participants indicate that trial lays foundations for an alternative Swiss post-trade infrastructure functioning without CCP or CSD, enabling reduced cost and complexity across the securities transaction lifecycle

Jewel Bank launches USD stablecoin with Polygon
12 December 2022 Bermuda
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The bank is the first to offer a bank-grade, bank-issued and fully-reserved USD stablecoin on Polygon and in the Web3 space

Apex Group has appointed Felix Edgren as regional head of corporate product
12 December 2022 Europe
Reporter: Lyndsey Young

Edgren will be responsible for leading the delivery and growth of Apex Group’s corporate, business and capital markets services in the Nordic region

Standard Chartered promotes David Rego
12 December 2022 Singapore
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The bank has appointed David Rego as global head of payments, transaction banking. He reports to Philip Panaino, global head of cash, transaction banking

Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn picks Linedata to deliver operations upgrade
12 December 2022 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn has commissioned Linedata to deliver a new operational model

Clearstream onboards Proxymity’s Vote Connect in Europe
12 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Clearstream is the latest to go live with Vote Connect, launching the service across nine European markets

LSEG partners with Microsoft to deliver cloud-based infrastructure and data analytics innovation
12 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

Through this strategic partnership, LSEG will enter into a 10-year commercial arrangement to migrate its data platform and tech infrastructure into Microsoft’s Azure cloud, with Azure Machine Learning working with LSEG on new gen analytics solutions

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