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Sibos: Not innovating would be criminal
26 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Banks should not see the threat of cybercrime as a reason to shy away from innovation, but rather as an incentive to develop financial technology further, Gottfried Leibbrandt, CEO of SWIFT, told attendees at Sibos 2016 in Geneva...

GFT partners with Google for blockchain
23 September 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Financial services software provider GFT has become a member of the Google Partner Programme for testing distributed ledger innovation in banks...

Digital Asset applies Blockchain to Swiss market
22 September 2016 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SIX Securities Services is partnering up with Digital Asset Holdings to work on a proof-of-concept for blockchain technology in the Swiss financial market...

CUSIP raises the gold bar
19 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

CUSIP Global Services has paired up with the Delaware Depository to apply its security identifiers used for tracking and trading in the equities and fixed-income markets to gold bars...

KCG closes Neonet acquisition
19 September 2016 Stockholm
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

KCG has completed its acquisition of Swedish agency broker and insurance firm Neonet Securities...

T2S on a roll with wave-three success
14 September 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Wave-three participants have successfully migrated to the TARGET2-Securities (T2S) pan-European securities settlement platform...

New CEO for SmartStream's RDU
13 September 2016 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SmartStream Technologies has named Peter Moss as CEO of its Reference Data Utility (RDU)...

Alpha FMC expands with new CFO
24 August 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset management consultancy Alpha FMC has appointed Adrian Keen as CFO...

Gresham expands with new global director
22 August 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Data integrity specialist Gresham has appointed David Eagan as its new global director for customer success and service delivery, following a successful first half of 2016...

Lombard Risk hires regulatory specialist
18 August 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

David Howard has joined Lombard Risk in the newly created role of senior regulatory consultant in the Americas...

Wave-three CSDs all set for T2S
16 August 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Clients of wave-three CSDs are ready for the migration to T2S, according to VP, whose Danish and Luxembourgish CSDs will join the platform on 12 September...

Allianz GI boosts institutional team
10 August 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Allianz Global Investors has appointed Margaret Frost to head up its institutional business in the UK, effective 1 October...