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Neal King joins RBS’ trustee and depositary services team
11 June 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Neal King joins RBS with more than 30 years of experience in the industry having held several roles at HSBC

State Street accelerates digital asset capabilities with new division
10 June 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The new division will build on State Street’s current digital capabilities and will expand to include crypto, central bank digital currency, blockchain, and tokenisation.

Digital Asset CEO joins Global Blockchain Business Council board
10 June 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Yuval Rooz’s appointment to the board will become official at the next meeting of the GBBC’s general assembly in September

Standard Chartered implements domestic mutual fund custody in China
10 June 2021 China
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The opening up of the market to international custodians has since created more options for domestic mutual and private funds

Alex Ross-Wilson joins Capco as partner and UK banking lead
10 June 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Capco has appointed Alex Ross-Wilson as a new partner with responsibility for the company’s UK banking practice, based in London

Gensler spotlights SEC thinking on T+0 settlement and payment for order flow
10 June 2021 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

Time equals risk in financial markets and recent events have triggered questions around whether risk can be lowered through shortening the T+2 settlement cycle, says US SEC chair Gary Gensler

Fintech DASH enhances analytics offering
10 June 2021 US
Reporter: Alex Pugh

DASH360 Risk provides sell-side firms with real-time visibility of all activity at the firm, account or trader level, including risk limit consumption, risk breaches and alerts

Northern Trust reveals new leadership roles in APAC
10 June 2021 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

In this leadership role, Higgins will oversee Northern Trust’s asset servicing business activities across the three markets and assume executive management responsibilities for the bank’s Hong Kong office

ESMA publishes new stress test framework for CCPs
10 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

The 2021 Stress Test, which is the fourth iteration of its evaluation framework, draws on experience gained from previous evaluation exercises

Standard Chartered named settlement bank for the Euro in Buna
09 June 2021 Abu Dhabi
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Standard Chartered has reached an agreement with the Arab Monetary Fund to serve as a settlement bank for the Euro currency in Buna, the cross-border payment system owned by the AMF

Gemini acquires crypto custody technology
09 June 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

"Across the institutional and retail crypto markets globally, there is growing demand for instant and secure access to digital assets," says Blair Halliday, head of UK, Gemini

BBH launches connectors programme
09 June 2021 US
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The connectors programme is launching with four unaffiliated external firms — Clearwater Analytics, Financial Recovery Technologies, IdealRatings and OnCorps — while also using several BBH-built solutions