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London Borough of Brent appoints Northern Trust
17 July 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Northern Trust has been appointed by the London Borough of Brent to provide global custodian, performance measurement and valuation reporting services for its £650 million in pension fund assets...

BNY Mellon: Understanding is key to cracking Asia
17 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

It’s important for investors to be aware of the subtle differences between key Asian countries, according to a survey by BNY Mellon and analytics and advisory firm Oxford Metrica...

Paraic Cosgrave joins BNP Paribas
17 July 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Paraic Cosgrave has joined BNP Paribas Securities Services as head of sales and relationship management for its alternative fund administration business...

Step up for UniCredit’s Susanna Scheffold
17 July 2015 Vienna
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

UniCredit is promoting Susanna Scheffold to head of global securities services, to take over from Tomasz Grajewski...

Paul Kneen joins Pacific Fund Systems
17 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Fund administration and software provider Pacific Fund Systems has appointed Paul Kneen as COO...

Thomas Murray recruits BNY Mellon CSD team
16 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Thomas Murray Advisory Services has confirmed it has hired three members of BNY Mellon’s central securities depository team, in addition to former CEO Chris Prior-Willeard...

Bank of England to accept equities as collateral
16 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Banks will soon be able to offer the Bank of England equities as collateral, executive director Chris Salmon has revealed...

Goal Group open New York office
16 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Securities class-action specialist Goal Group has expanded its operations in the US with the opening of a third office, located on State Street in New York...

More Italian banks choose BNP Paribas for T2S
16 July 2015 Milan
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNP Paribas has been chosen to provide post-trade and custody services to the Italian Banca Popolare di Milano (BPM) Group ahead of the implementation of T2S in the country in August...

AIM sets sights on UK, Netherlands and Nordics
15 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

AIM Software has appointed Ben Hopcroft as director of sales for the UK, Netherlands and the Nordic markets, to help expand the firm’s presence in these areas...

NSD joins SWIFT’s KYC registry
15 July 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Russia’s central securities depository, the National Securities Depository (NSD) is now using SWIFT’s know-your-client (KYC) Registry to improve its counterparty and client checks...

GFT expands compliance team
15 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

GFT has hired Oriol Pujol as head of market structure for its new legal, regulatory and compliance practice...