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AccessFintech bolsters product team
04 January 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

AccessFintech has appointed Ann Young as business product specialist

FactSet is to acquire CUSIP Global Services
04 January 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

FactSet is to acquire CUSIP Global Services from S&P Global for US$1.925 billion

Russia-based Sinara Investment Bank becomes member of ISDA
23 December 2021 Russia
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The ISDA board admitted Sinara as a new member of the organisation on 17 December 2021

SETL joins forces with SWIFT for digital assets pilot
23 December 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

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

Industry consortium interpret latest CSDR mandatory buy-in statement from ESMA
23 December 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

An industry consortium has co-signed a joint-association statement setting out a common interpretation of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s statement which outlines EU legislators do not expect market participants to take further action

Euroclear Bank to join ECB’s T2S settlement system
22 December 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Euroclear Bank, the Brussels-based international central securities depository, is to join the European Central Bank’s TARGET2-Securities settlement system, following an agreement signed with the ECB and the eurosystem central banks on 21 December

FNZ sells GBST to Anchorage Capital Partners
22 December 2021 Australia
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Anchorage Capital Partners’ investment is focused on GBST’s wealth management division and supports GBST’s management team in executing its growth strategy and delivering solutions to clients

Keler and IRGiT to combine for regional clearing collaboration
21 December 2021 CEE
Reporter: Bob Currie

An agreement signed between the Warsaw and Budapest stock exchanges, the Polish Power Exchange and Hungarian National Bank plans regional clearing services for CEE and SEE, initially targeting commodities and energy markets

Carin Bryans leaves J.P. Morgan after more than 30 years of service
21 December 2021 Ireland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Carin Bryans is to retire from J.P. Morgan as managing director and senior country officer of Ireland after more than 30 years with the bank

Proximity raises $31 million in second-round investment stage
20 December 2021 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Proxymity has raised US$31 million in its second-round investment stage

ESMA issues statement on CSDR buy-in postponement
20 December 2021 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

European securities market regulator clarifies its supervisory approach on implementation of buy-in regime, confirming news from November that it has asked co-legislators for a delay in buy-in element

David Braga to leave BNP Securities Services
17 December 2021 Australia
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

David Braga, CEO of BNP Paribas Securities Services, Australia and New Zealand is to leave the company after more than six years of service