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Sunny June for Clearstream custody and settlement
15 July 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Clearstream has seen increases across the board in its June figures, including a 10 percent increase in assets under custody, year-to-date, and a 12 percent increase in settlement transactions...

Bitcoin ecosystem is fragile, says SWIFT
14 July 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The bitcoin ecosystem exists in a fragile balance, and should be stabilised by encouraging smaller ‘mining’ pools, according to a white paper by the SWIFT Institute...

Russia’s corporate actions reform signed in
14 July 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The legal framework for Russia’s corporate actions reform has been approved and signed in to law...

Summer slump for SS&C GlobeOp
14 July 2015 Windsor, Connecticut
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for June 2015 measured 0.65 percent, while hedge fund flows as measured by the Capital Movement Index declined 2.71 percent in July...

SS&C hires Shepro to head new unit
14 July 2015 Windsor, Connecticut
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SS&C has launched its new business unit dedicated to the private capital market, and hired Bob Shepro to lead it as senior vice president...

Raymond James extends BNY subaccounting mandate
14 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon has extended the subaccounting services it provides for Raymond James & Associates to include 6.4 million active investor positions and more than $140 billion in assets...

Boutiques are crossing borders
13 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Boutique asset managers are moving their focus away from their home countries in search of more investment growth, with a particular increase in interest in Europe...

Computershare acquires SIX SAG
13 July 2015 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SIX Securities Services is selling SIX SAG, its business in share register services and general meetings for third parties to bank-independent issuer service provider, Computershare...

VolPay Channels pre-processing
13 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Volante has launched VolPay Channel, a host-to-host onboarding and pre-processing engine and the firm’s latest addition to its suite of payments processing products...

NYSE back on form
10 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The New York Stock Exchange is back up and running after a technical issue caused all trading on NYSE and NYSE MKT to be suspended...

Chinese ADR mandate for Deutsche Bank
10 July 2015 Zhuji, China
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Deutsche Bank has been chosen to act as depository bank for the sponsored Level III ADR of the Hailiang Education Group...

RIMES adds new data sources
10 July 2015 London
Reporter: steven

Managed data service provider RIMES has added 20 new data sources to its portfolio in the first six months of 2015...