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NSD's assets under custody jump 28 percent
29 October 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

National Settlement Depository, Russia’s CSD, has seen a 28 percent increase in assets under custody, while the number of securities issued and the value of registered payments both also increased...

China Europe Intercontinental Exchange is on
29 October 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Shanghai Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse and the China Financial Futures Exchange have joined forces to form the China Europe Intercontinental Exchange (CEINEX)...

Investec adopts Euroclear CSD for UK funds
29 October 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Investec Wealth and Investment has adopted Euroclear UK and Ireland’s automated settlement and custody system, CREST, for its UK investment fund flows...

Bitcoin fund sees record returns
29 October 2015 Jersey
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Jersey-based Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund returned 20 percent in October, marking the best monthly performance on record since it launched in September 2014...

Distribution ledger consortium gains traction
28 October 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

UniCredit, Mizuho and Nordea have signed up to R3’s distributed ledger project, bringing the total number of participating banks to 25...

Unity is the key for Confluence
28 October 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Confluence has launched a new performance and analytics product, Unity, providing a performance calculation and risk analysis platform for retail funds and institutional products...

Linedata: The time is now for CRS
28 October 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Investment managers and fund administrators should act now in order to be prepared for the OECD Common Reporting Standard ahead of the start of the first reporting period...

Alter Domus sells Asian fund admin business
27 October 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Fund BPO has acquired Alter Domus’s hedge fund administration business in Hong Kong and Singapore for an initial price of $1 million...

McNeilage joins Northern Trust EMEA leadership team
27 October 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Northern Trust Asset Management has appointed Hazel McNeilage a managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa...

ICE secures Interactive Data for $5.2 million
27 October 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Intercontinental Exchange is set to acquire Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data and analytics solutions...

ETFs’ AUM nipping at the heels of mutual funds
27 October 2015 Jersey City
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Domestic assets under management for US exchange-traded funds have grown by 6.1 percent from August 2014 to 2015, according to a new Pershing report...

Euronext launches AtomX for OTC derivatives
27 October 2015 Amsterdam
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

European stock exchange Euronext has launched a new service allowing over-the-counter trades to be conducted in the same pools as other derivatives positions...