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NES Financial joins the Opportunity Funds Association
19 June 2020 Washington, DC
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

NES Financial, a JTC Company, has joined the Opportunity Funds Association (OFA) as a new member and preferred service provider of OFA services

Cayman Islands welcomes new regulatory regime for virtual assets
18 June 2020 Cayman Islands
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The Cayman Islands has welcomed a new framework for regulating virtual asset business, which is set to help maintain the jurisdiction’s position as an attractive domicile for legitimate virtual asset businesses

Carpenters Trusts selects Northern Trust for global custody
19 June 2020 Chicago
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Northern Trust has been selected by Carpenters Trusts of Western Washington, a Seattle-based self-administered Taft-Hartley trust, to provide global custody, securities lending, foreign exchange and related services for $2.2 billion in trust assets

National Bank of Greece appoints Thomas Murray for counterparty monitoring
19 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

As part of this new venture, Thomas Murray will assist NBG’s counterparty monitoring efforts across 30 markets by leveraging its extensive expertise in global securities markets

Eurex Clearing services first centrally cleared Bitcoin ETN
19 June 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Eurex Clearing, the central counterparty of Deutsche Börse Group, is providing clearing services to the world’s first centrally cleared Bitcoin exchange-traded notes (ETN)

SteelEye highlights the importance of a data-centric approach to compliance
18 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has highlighted the need for a data-centric approach to compliance in its new white paper

BNP Paribas Securities Services names new head of APAC
18 June 2020 Paris
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Franck Dubois, the current head of France and Belgium, as regional head of APAC

Commerzbank London slammed with £37.8 million fine
18 June 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Commerzbank London has received a fine of £37,805,400 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over anti-money laundering (AML) failures

Nomura and partners launch digital asset custodian Komainu
17 June 2020 Jersey
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Nomura, Ledger and CoinShares, have launched Komainu, a digital asset custody business for institutional investors

Meritsoft and Taskize collaborate on enhanced CSDR solution
17 June 2020 Dublin
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Meritsoft, a Cognizant company, and Taskize, a Euroclear company, are integrating their automated fails operational workload offering and global operational task management solutions to provide an end-to-end Central Securities Depositories Regulation

Access Fintech partners with Clearstream to solve CSDR penalty challenges
16 June 2020 London
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Access Fintech is joining forces with Clearstream to allow clients to more effectively manage penalties and trade status updates for transactions in scope for CSDR

CIBC Mellon to provide asset servicing for CI WisdomTree ETFs
16 June 2020 Toronto
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

CIBC Mellon has been selected to provide custody, fund accounting and ETF servicing for CI Financial's 14 Toronto Stock Exchange-listed CI WisdomTree ETFs