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Seychelles-based digital custodian gets green light for go live
15 June 2020 Seychelles
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

SECDEX Digital Custodian now has a licence under the Financial Services Authority sandbox to offer digital custody services and is now live

IQ-EQ completes Blue River Partners acquisition
15 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

IQ-EQ has completed the acquisition of Blue River Partners following receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals

SIX completes acquisition of controlling stake in BME
12 June 2020 Zurich
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The combination of BME and SIX is set to create a more diversified group with a strong presence across Europe

BNP Paribas wins custody mandate for Hong Kong’s first retail OFC
12 June 2020 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BNP Paribas Securities Services has been selected to provide custody services to BEA Union Investment, the first fund manager to use Hong Kong’s OFC regime for actively-managed retail funds

Torstone Technology appoints David Pearson
11 June 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Pearson brings more than 30 years of experience working in technology solutions for financial markets, focusing on workflow and automation in the front office and post-trade space

SimCorp merges European market units
11 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

SimCorp has merged its Central Europe, Southern Europe and UK/Northern Europe/Middle East (UNM) market units, into one integrated Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) unit

ISDA, EBF and FIA write to ESMA on clearing regulatory technical standards
10 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The associations have set out steps for ESMA to undertake to prevent market participants from having to initiate and execute costly operational, legal and contractual compliance processes

State Street to service Fidelity’s new suite of ETFs
10 June 2020 Boston
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

State Street will provide ETF Servicing for Fidelity’s first semi-transparent ETF suite utilising proxy basket structure

BNY Mellon names Caroline Butler as global head of custody
9 June 2020 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BNY Mellon has welcomed back Caroline Butler

A2X Markets implements post-trade system for brokers
08 June 2020 Johannesburg
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The system facilitates integration between the brokers’ downstream systems allowing for seamless end-to-end processing

BNP Paribas enhances global custody client experience with NGL launch
05 June 2020 Paris
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BNP Paribas Securities Services is enhancing monitoring and oversight of operations for global custody clients with the use of Natural Language Generation

SEBA launches educational platform for digital assets and crypto currencies
05 June 2020 Zug
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

According to SEBA, the need for knowledge and training in this area is great among the general public, investors, companies, especially banks and other financial service providers