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Boutique firms in fintech merger
08 February 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Boutique corporate finance companies NovitasPartners and FTCL have completed a merger to become NovitasFTCL...

First South African LEI issuer endorsed
08 February 2016 Johannesburg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Strate has become the first institution to provide legal entity identifier services in South Africa, having received endorsement from the Regulatory Oversight Committee...

Wilkinson joins Lombard Risk
08 February 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Lombard Risk Management has hired Tina Wilkinson as global head of product...

FundBPO launches PFS-PAXUS software
05 February 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Australian fund administrator FundBPO has purchased licenses to use Pacific Fund Systems’s PFS-PAXUS fund accounting and administrative software for Hong Kong fund services business...

New senior vice president at Wedbush
05 February 2016 Los Angeles
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Wedbush Securities has promoted Sean Scanlon to the position of senior vice president and middle office manager...

ESMA clears the way for UK pension scheme exemptions
05 February 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The European Securities and Markets Authority has backed plans to exempt 16 UK pension schemes from central clearing obligations...

Costs affecting IRS clearing decision, says TABB
05 February 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Costs are playing a major role in where buy-side firms are choosing to clear their interest rate swaps, according to a new report...

Blockchain a blessing for capital markets
05 February 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Although there are still barriers to the widespread adoption of blockchain in capital markets, a ‘wait-and-see’ approach could be damaging, according to a whitepaper by Euroclear and Oliver Wyman...

New CEO appointed for FCA
04 February 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

HM Treasury has appointed Andrew Bailey as the new CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority...

MUFG Investor Services snaps up fund admin business
04 February 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

MUFG Investor Services has agreed to acquire Capital Analytics, the private equity fund administration business of investment manager Neuberger Berman...

New head of Asian operations for First Names Group
04 February 2016 Singapore
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

First Names Group has hired Jean Pierre Koolmees as head of Asian operations...

AUM on the up in Luxembourg
04 February 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Luxembourg has seen 13.3 percent growth in assets under management in the last year, according to the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)...