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PIMCO fined $20m for ETF ‘odd lots’ disclosure failure
02 December 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Investment management firm PIMCO has been fined $20 million by the US SEC for misleading investors about the performance of one its first actively managed ETFs...

SocGen partners up for equity research
02 December 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Barney Dixon

Societe Generale has partnered with Smartkarma to provide clients easier access to equity research, and to aid compliance with unbundling rules under MiFID II...

Sapient’s CMRS caters to new Israeli requirements
01 December 2016 Boston
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Sapient Global Markets is extending its CMRS regulatory reporting platform to help banks comply with new Bank of Israel transaction reporting requirements...

GCF: African investors coming of age
30 November 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The rise of local institutional investors in Africa has allowed for capital markets on the continent to continue to develop, despite overall market slowdown...

GCF: Depository banks need more grilling
30 November 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Neither investors or counterparties are doing enough to challenge depository banks on their ability to weather so-called 'black swan' events, according to delegates at Global Custody Forum in London...

RBI and RZB appoint new CEO ahead of merger
30 November 2016 Vienna
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The supervisory board of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has named Johann Strobl as the new CEO of Raiffeisen Zentralbank O?sterreich (RZB) and RBI, following the merger of the two...

GPP builds up new structured products team
30 November 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Global Prime Partners has made a spate of senior hires, including Mike Ward as head of new business development, ahead of the launch of its new structures products business...

Ex-NYSE CEO joins Paxos board
30 November 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Paxos, the financial technology company focused on blockchain solutions, has appointed Duncan Niederauer, former CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, to its board of directors...

BrickVest: Blockchain to boost real estate industry
29 November 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Institutional property investors can see a future for blockchain in the real estate investment industry, according to a survey by BrickVest...

BNY Mellon's Mager heads up innovation group
29 November 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon has named Christopher Mager as head of its new innovation group within the treasury services business...

R3 and Calypso partner for post-trade blockchain
29 November 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Blockchain consortium R3 is seeking to recapture investor confidence after a spate of high profile banks withdrew their support for the project by signing on Calypso Technology to develop a capital markets post-trade blockchain application...

HSBC helps work towards cash-free India
29 November 2016 Pune, India
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

HSBC India has launched a new unified payments interface (UPI) solution for corporates in the country...