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International Asset Management selects HSBC as custodian
18 November 2019 Dublin
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

HSBC Securities Services has been appointed custodian and administrator for the International Asset Management’s UCITS and alternative investment fund ICAV’s multi-manager platforms, domiciled in Ireland

DTCC upgrades FRTB data service
18 November 2019 New York
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The new version enables the mapping of risk factors to a pool of global derivatives data to provide insight on modellability results n accordance with the FRTB

MSC Trustees launches fund admin platform
18 November 2019 Sydney
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The new fund administration service will provide fund registry, reporting and accounting for capital managers

Baton Systems and J.P. Morgan to automate derivatives margin payments
15 November 2019 New York
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Baton Systems has teamed up with J.P. Morgan to develop a distributed ledger technology platform to help redeploy cash and collateral balances more effectively to global clearinghouses

HSBC to provide global custody Kommunalbanken
15 November 2019 Norway
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

HSBC Securities Services has been named global custody provider for Kommunalbanken, a local government funding agency in Norway

Ledger Vault obtains custom crime insurance policy
14 November 2019 Paris
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Ledger has obtained a crime insurance policy covering digital assets secured by the Ledger Vault platform

SocGen’s Etienne Deniau takes on new business strategy role
14 November 2019 Paris
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Etienne Deniau has started a new business strategy position within the securities services team at Société Générale, based in Paris

ISSA calls for industry-wide cooperation on crypto assets
14 November 2019 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The ISSA’s working group on DLT and crypto-assets has called on industry participants to recreate universally recognised market standards and definitions for the emerging crypto world in a new paper released today

Jane Mancini swaps State Street for BNY Mellon
13 November 2019 New York
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

In her new role, Mancini is responsible for leading the sales and business development effort for the bank’s asset servicing business in the Americas region

HSBC supports first GDR conversion under Shanghai-London Stock Connect
13 November 2019 Shanghai
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

HSBC China has supported the conversion of the first global depositary receipt (GDR) for Huatai Securities under the Shanghai-London Stock Connect Scheme

AFME sets out recommendations for supervisory convergence on crypto-asset regs
13 November 2019 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

In the paper, the association set out five recommendations to help encourage collaboration between regulators in Europe and work towards a common approach to the regulation and development of crypto assets in financial services

Electra expands reconciliation platform offering
12 November 2019 New York
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Electra Information Systems has expanded its Electra Reconciliation platform to enable firms to process investigations by identifying the root causes of trade breaks or exceptions