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IQ-EQ adds Crabtree to senior commercial leadership
05 January 2022 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

IQ-EQ has appointed Emma Crabtree as group chief commercial officer to lead the investor services firm’s growth plans

Cion Digital closes US$12 million funding round for SaaS blockchain orchestration platform
04 January 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Cion Digital, the developers of the first enterprise SaaS blockchain orchestration platform, has closed a US$12 million seed capital raise

Mike Cowley joins Citi
04 January 2022 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

After 15 years at Deutsche Bank, Mike Cowley moves to Citi as global head of asset services product development

SKDD-CCP offers central clearing in Croatian market
04 January 2022 Croatia
Reporter: Bob Currie

Zagreb-based clearing entity becomes the fourteenth licensed to provide central counterparty services in the EU

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