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Another new hire for Hazeltree
16 November 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Hazeltree has appointed Ayman Sakr to the position of head of worldwide client services...

Lombard Risk bolsters APAC team
16 November 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Lombard Risk Management has reinforced its product and sales teams in the Asia Pacific with three new hires...

Source code proposal not up to scratch
16 November 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Barney Dixon

A regulatory proposal from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has drawn concerns from the Futures Industry Association (FIA) over the potential side effects for source code protection...

SEC chair White to step down with Obama
15 November 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

US Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White is stepping down at the end of the Obama administration...

SIX collaborating on cybercrime research
15 November 2016 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SIX has established a 12-year research cooperation agreement with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center, to work on data security...

Asset managers prepared for industry challenges
15 November 2016 Boston
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Regulation, client demands and cost pressures are posing a challenge for asset managers, but they’re confident in their ability to manage it, according to a survey...

T2S user trio launch network platform
15 November 2016 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Target2-Securities participants will soon be able to utilise a ‘single point of access model’ with enhanced collateral pooling and post-trade services, through a new collaborative network model set to launch in 2017...

Deutsche Bank launches asset servicing solution
15 November 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Deutsche Bank has added its new Asset Servicing Only solution to its global securities services business...

Bax joins Euroclear board for ESES
14 November 2016 Amsterdam
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Euroclear has appointed Marieke Bax to the board of its Euronext-Zone Securities (ESES) central securities depositories (CSDs), as a non-executive director...

OTC derivative reform opens the door for SWFs
14 November 2016 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Sovereign wealth funds are in a unique position to plug gaps in the securities lending and repo markets left by regulatory reform in the over-the-counter derivatives space, according to BNY Mellon...

Blockchain consortium turns attention to KYC
11 November 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

R3 and ten of its consortium banks have developed proof-of-concept for a shared know-your-customer (KYC) service using distributed ledger technology to help manage identity controls...

Another win for Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX
11 November 2016 Amsterdam
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Netherlands subsidiary of Mizuho Bank has selected the Wolters Kluwer OneSumX risk and regulatory reporting solution for its risk calculations and multi-country reporting...