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Another new hire for Northern Trust
14 September 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Northern Trust has hired James Wright to the newly created position of head of the institutional investor group for the UK, Ireland and Guernsey...

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...

Israeli custody mandate for BNY Mellon
14 September 2016 Tel Aviv
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon has been selected by Israeli insurance company Clal Insurance to provide global custody and cash management services for assets totalling over $7 billion...

itBit team launch blockchain firm
13 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The team responsible for cryptocurrency trading platform itBit has now launched Paxos, a blockchain technology firm...

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)...

EU regulators dismiss OTC amendments
12 September 2016 Basel
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Three European regulators have joined forces to voice their disagreement with the European Commission’s proposed amendments to the final draft RTS for OTC derivatives...

T2S wave three must be a success, says BNY Mellon
12 September 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The third wave of T2S implementation will be the tipping point that decides whether the project justifies the investment in the platform, according to BNY Mellon’s Tom Casteleyn...

New horizons for BCS Global Markets
12 September 2016 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BCS Global Markets has appointed two new regional managing directors as part of a drive to continue expansion and business development...

SEC charges ARCP executives
09 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Shirley Fehr Rodriguez

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged two former accounting executives with overstating the financial performance of a real estate investment trust...

McDonnell expands his role at HSBC
08 September 2016 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

HSBC has appointed Tony McDonnell as head of sales and business development for its securities services unit in Europe...

Brazilian exchange joins R3
07 September 2016 São Paulo
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Brazil’s BM&FBovespa has become the first exchange to join the R3 network to pursue market uses of distributed ledger technology.

AFME wades into asset segregation debate
07 September 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe has joined the chorus of industry bodies calling for global consistency across asset segregation regulations...