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FRS expands to Asia
01 December 2017 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Financial Risk Solutions has opened its first two offices outside of Europe, in Hong Kong and Malaysia

Citi hires new global head of securities services
01 December 2017 New York
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Brian Ovaert will be responsible for overall strategic direction of the securities services operation function, as well as the day-to-day activities of the business

EEA members’ supervisory weaknesses exposed in ESMA review
30 November 2017 Paris
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ESMA said those NCAs who did not identify good practices, would be consulted by ESMA on how they can make improvements in time for the MiFID II deadline

Citi chosen to provide ETF services
29 November 2017 New York
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Citi will assist EntrepreneurShares’s first ETF with fund accounting and administration, custody and transfer agency

CACEIS hires Francesca De Bartolomeo
27 November 2017 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

CACEIS has appointed Francesca De Bartolomeo as head of regional coverage for Southern Europe and Latin America

Citi boosts custody and fund services team
21 November 2017 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Fiona Horsewill is set to join Citi as head of product development and strategy for custody and fund services EMEA

RBC I&TS boosts UK client coverage team
20 November 2017 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

RBC Investor & Treasury Services (I&TS) has appointed Pat Sanderson as head of global client coverage in the UK

Citi pilots new platform for proxy voting
14 November 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The platform, which is supported by Computershare, will be initially rolled out in the UK for the 2018 proxy season

Citi’s Karczewski moves on to HSBC
13 November 2017 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Jane Karczewski has left her position as managing director of strategic risk solutions at Citi, and is set to join HSBC as head of global custody

Clearstream partners with Citi to increase Chinese bond trades
30 October 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Starting from 20 November, Bond Connect will extend China’s Interbank Bond Market (CIBM) to Clearstream clients throughout the rest of the world via Hong Kong

Iberclear bank on Citi to provide global custody
20 October 2017 Madrid
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The agreement, signed at this years Sibos conference in Toronto, will enable Spanish clearing houses to settle international securities via local CSDs

LCH promotes Daniel Maguire to CEO
19 October 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Maguire, who has been COO of the same department since April this year, was previously senior vice president for commodity exotics and hybrids at J.P. Morgan