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HSBC facilitates first CIBM access
14 June 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

HSBC has become the first bank to facilitate access to the Chinese Inter-bank Bond Market for an overseas investor...

Capital moving to alternative strategies
13 June 2016 Berlin
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Institutional investors are seeking to allocate more of their capital to alternative strategies, including real estate, in a quest for strong returns in the low interest rate environment, according to a new study from BNY Mellon...

OCC commends on QCCP extension
13 June 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Equity derivatives clearinghouse the Options Clearing Corporation has praised the European Commission’s decision to delay the deadline for US CCPs to become fully fledged qualifying central counterparties in the EU...

HSBC taps Seth as regional head
13 June 2016 Dubai
Reporter: Drew Nicol

HSBC’s Kapil Seth has moved up a rung to take on the position of regional head of securities services for the Middle East and North Africa...

Nomura heavyweight joins Schroders in Japan
10 June 2016 Tokyo
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Schroders has appointed Shigesuke Kashiwagi as president and country head of Japan, effective 1 July...

KDPW_CCP welcomes first foreign clearing member
10 June 2016 Warsaw
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

ABN AMRO Clearing Bank has become the first foreign general clearing member to join the Polish clearinghouse KDPW_CCP...

Pershing addresses new conflict of interest regulation
09 June 2016 Orlando
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon’s Pershing is addressing the US Department of Labor’s new Conflict of Interest Rule, developing a range of new solutions to help financial services firms with compliance...

Pacific REIT appoints Indos as depository
09 June 2016 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT has appointed Indos Financial as depository...

Bedrock selects SGSS for cross-border distribution
09 June 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Societe Generale Securities Services in Luxembourg has been selected to provide cross-border fund distribution services for global investment and advisory firm Bedrock...

Torstone Inferno wins Myanmar mandate
09 June 2016 Yangon
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

A Myanmar-based broker has gone live with Torstone Technology’s Inferno platform for post-trade securities and derivatives processing...

Castles in the cloud for collateral management
08 June 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

CloudMargin and the CME Group are collaborating to offer clearing participants access to cloud-based software for automated and integrated collateral management...

State Street’s Hayes joins BNP Paribas
08 June 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Patrick Hayes as head of the UK, the Middle East and South Africa...