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BNP Paribas appoints new head of client development for Asia Securities Services
29 June 2022 Singapore
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Based in Singapore, Ewe will be responsible for Securities Services sales, client relationship management and client services across Southeast Asia

State Street expands global markets team
29 June 2022 US
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Joe Martinez and Sarah Kirschbaum have both been appointed portfolio solutions senior sales managers for North America

BEQUANT announces launch of institutional DeFi platform
29 June 2022 Malta
Reporter: Bob Currie

The digital prime broker says that its new solution, developed with Fireblocks, is the industry’s first decentralised finance platform for institutional users, enabling clients to cross-margin across decentralised and centralised trading platforms

Helvetia selects NeoXam to utilise its DataHub solution
29 June 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Swiss-headquartered European insurance group Helvetia has selected financial software provider NeoXam to support the continued expansion of its asset management business

Standard Custody and Trust closes Series C funding round
29 June 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Standard Custody and Trust, has closed its US $53 million Series C funding round with participation from US solutions provider Cowen Digital and European hedge fund company Brevan Howard

Amundi Austria acquires fintech Finventum GmbH to utilise its Savity advisory platform
29 June 2022 Austria
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Amundi Austria has acquired fintech Finventum GmbH from Austrian retail banking company BAWAG P.S.K. and the company founders

Celent: The road to ISO 20022 migration
29 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

47 per cent of banks say they strongly agree that technology constraints within the bank limit their ability to do more with their migration to ISO 20022, according to a payments survey by Celent

DTCC’s Report Hub service grows to more than 70 firms
28 June 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The members of the hub include leading banks, major swap dealers, and some of the largest custodians, clearing houses and buy-side firms across the globe

Clearstream selects Proxymity’s Shareholder Disclosure Solution
28 June 2022 Luxembourg
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The mandate will allow Clearstream clients to validate and automate shareholder ID requests from trusted sources in industry compliant formats, eliminating the need for manual intervention

Finland’s FA Solutions launches new data portal
28 June 2022 Finland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The FA Client Portal allows clients to access their investments, holdings, transactions, trade orders, and documents as well as giving them access to aggregated data from chosen portfolios

Colendi acquires SETL
28 June 2022 UK Turkey
Reporter: Bob Currie

Turkish fintech Colendi has announced the purchase of London-headquartered enterprise blockchain specialist SETL, with plans to shorten the gap between permissioned enterprise blockchain and a secure public blockchain environment

TSAM: Data processing on the cloud, combined with a tremendous amount of legacy technology, does not always mean good data governance, says panellist
28 June 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

In the Fireside Chat, the moderator asked the audience whether the pivot toward data centricity is a key driver to growing their business, to which the majority of the audience raised their hands in agreement