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Barclays implements SWIFT onboarding tool
23 September 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Barclays Corporate has successfully implemented SWIFT’s MyStandards Readiness Portal solution for onboarding, and has used the platform to onboard Navigators Insurance using the platform...

Guernsey approves 18 new investment funds in Q2
23 September 2015 Guernsey
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Guernsey’s financial services regulator approved 18 new investment funds during Q2 2015...

Funds unprepared for money market reform
22 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

US fund managers are unprepared and uncertain over the upcoming money market reform, according to a survey by SimCorp...

Mark Wetjen joins DTCC
22 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The Depositary Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Mark Wetjen as managing director with responsibility for leading the firm’s global public policy function...

Bennelong selects RBC as custodian
22 September 2015 Sydney
Reporter: Becky Butcher

RBC Investor & Treasury Services has been appointed by Bennelong Funds Management to be its custodian and administrator...

SunGard secures French reconciliations mandate
22 September 2015 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Generali Vie, a French life insurance company and part of the Generali Group, has launched SunGard’s IntelliMatch Operational Control solution for managing cash and securities reconciliations...

Boost for Multifonds TA system
22 September 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Multifonds is improving the capabilities of its transfer agency solution, Multifonds Global Investor, in response to client demand to consolidate and rationalise their transfer agency processing...

BBH names new managing partner
22 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Brown Brothers Harriman has appointed William Tyree as its managing partner, effective 1 January 2016...

BSC sparks new partnership with Euroclear
21 September 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BCS Financial Group, the largest securities broker on the Moscow Exchange, through BCS Prime Brokerage...

RSRCHX changes institutional research
21 September 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

RSRCHXchange has launched RSRCHX, an online marketplace for institutional research allowing asset managers to source and purchase research in a more transparent and efficient way...

CSCS to improve market liquidity
21 September 2015 Lagos
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing System is looking to boost market liquidity through its securities lending and borrowing and post-trade allocation process flows to capital market operators...

BBH improves settlement processes
21 September 2015 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Brown Brother Harriman (BBH) has become the first global custodian to go live on the new Omgeo ALERT GC Direct Service...