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FCA tackles competition in asset management
23 November 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The FCA has set out the areas of focus for its study of competition in the asset management industry, with the role of consultants and motivation for cost control featuring...

SEC proposes new alternative trading rules
20 November 2015 Washington DC
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed new rules intended to improve regulatory oversight and transparency of alternative trading systems that trade stocks on national market systems...

Lyndon Trott named Guernsey Finance chairman
20 November 2015 Guernsey
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The board of Guernsey Finance has appointed Lyndon Trott as its chairman, effective 1 December...

New Hong Kong hire for Elian
19 November 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Elian has hired Kathy Cheng a new associate director to oversee its fund services team in Hong Kong...

SocGen selects SmartStream for reconciliation
19 November 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Societe Generale Prime Services has chosen SmartStream’s TLM Reconciliations Premium solution for its exchange-traded derivatives reconciliations and internal and external brokerage...

Green mandate for BNY Mellon
19 November 2015 Burlington, Vermont
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon has been appointed by the Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financial Agency and Saint Michael’s College as trustee, paying agent and registrar for $18.5 million in green bonds...

Assets managers in a pickle over data quality
19 November 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset managers are not particularly confident when it comes to quality and consistency in data management, even though they consider it important to their organisation...

Poland’s KDPW_CCP gains traction
19 November 2015 Warsaw
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

PKO Bank Polski, the largest Polish bank, has joined the clearinghouse KDPW_CCP for clearing over-the-counter derivatives denominated in Polish zloty...

Healthy growth in UK AUM
19 November 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

UK assets under management reached a record figure of £6.8 trillion at the end of 2014, marking the sixth successive year of growth, according to a report from TheCityUK...

Panama on board with KYC Registry
18 November 2015 Panama City
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Panama Banking Association has endorsed SWIFT’s Know-Your-Client (KYC) Registry...

New directors for First Names Group
18 November 2015 Jersey
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

First Names Group has appointed two new client services directors, Carol Keenan and Gerard O’Gorman, effective immediately...

BT Global Services calls on Volante
18 November 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Volante Technologies has been selected by BT to provide its suite of financial integration and processing software to members of the BT Radianz Cloud community...