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Digital Asset joins ISSA
04 April 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Digital Asset Holdings has joined the International Securities Services Association (ISSA), a trade body for the post-trade securities services industry, effective immediately...

New vice chair for ESMA
29 January 2016 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has appointed Anneli Tuominen as vice chair...

ISSA adopts financial crime compliance principles
04 September 2015 Zurich
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The ISSA board has adopted the ISSA financial crime compliance principles, which aim to support the global community of securities custodians and intermediaries to address challenges posed by financial crime...

Mercer boosts investments team
29 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Mercer Investments has hired four new executives, as part of the continued growth of its investment business...

ISSA sets up crime compliance squad
24 April 2015 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The International Securities Services Association (ISSA) has established a new working group to explore and better understand the challenges and activities in financial crime compliance...

Hack highlights holes in cyber security
17 February 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

A string of cyber attacks that saw about $1 billion stolen from banks affected 100 banks, e-payment systems and other organisations in a two-year period, according to an investigation by Kaspersky Lab...

SunGard secures Nissan Century mandate
09 December 2014 Tokyo
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SunGard has been mandated by Nissan Century Securities to provide a solution for its Japanese operations...

Quatari bank welcomes SunGard solution
19 November 2014 Doha
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Quatar-based Ahli Bank QSC has deployed SunGard’s risk solutions strategy to help enhance its regulatory capital calculations and regulatory reporting capabilities...

CACEIS as depositary for CPR AM's first UCITS fund
07 October 2014 Paris
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

CACEIS has been chosen by CPR AM as the asset servicing partner for its first Luxembourg law UCITS fund, CPR Invest, for which two sub-funds that were launched in August 2014...

SunGard solution for Islamic Bank of Egypt
12 August 2014 Cairo
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt has selected SunGard’s suite of enterprise risk management solutions to help build a new operational framework for improved risk exposure, reporting and Basel compliance...

Opus opens office in Portland
11 July 2014 Portland
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Opus Fund Services has opened a new office in Portland, Oregon, giving the fund administrator a presence on the West Coast...

Hedge fund managers cite cost and quality for moves
25 February 2014 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Hedge fund managers are changing their service providers, particularly administrators and prime brokers, because of low-quality service and cost, a survey has found...