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BIS updates minimum capital requirements for market risk
15 January 2019 Basel
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has updated its minimum capital requirements for market risk, which replaces an earlier version of the standard as published in January 2016

Clearstream expands fund platform offering to Indonesia
15 January 2019 Jakarta
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Clearstream has further expanded its Vestima offering by adding Indonesia as a newly covered investment fund market

David Weber joins AxiomSL
15 January 2019 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

David Weber has joined AxiomSL as COO and CFO while Eyal Amsalem has been promoted as chief administrative officer

Bank Leumi selects Volante for PSD2 solution
15 January 2019 New York
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Bank Leumi has selected Volante Technologies’ VolPay Open Banking solution to implement PSD2 compliance and enable open banking business models

Jochen Meyers joins Universal-Investment
15 January 2019 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Universal-Investment has appointed Jochen Meyers as its new head of relationship management for institutional clients

Hong Kong and Luxembourg sign fund agreement
15 January 2019 Luxembourg
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier of Luxembourg have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the mutual recognition of funds

Broadridge and ICJ join forces for blockchain proxy voting
15 January 2019 New York
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Broadridge Financial Solutions and ICJ have conducted the first proof of concept (PoC) of blockchain-based proxy voting in Japan, using Quorum as the underlying distributed ledger technology

Vontobel offers new custody solution for digital assets
15 January 2019 Zurich
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Vontobel is now offering wealth managers in Switzerland an end-to-end service for digital assets, Digital Asset Vault

SEI looks to boost analytics offering
15 January 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Fund administrator SEI is focusing on leveraging investor data to boost its analytics offering

Mary Jane Schuessler swaps RBC for BMO
14 January 2019 Toronto
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Mary Jane Schuessler has joined BMO Capital as director of global equity finance, effective today

HKEX enhances DS programme for ETFs
14 January 2019 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited has enhanced the designated specialist programme for its exchange-traded products, which include exchange-traded funds

Accuity appoints new CEO
14 January 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Accuity has appointed of David Wilson as its new managing director and CEO, effective 1 January 2019