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ICAP snaps up Jenny Knott
02 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

ICAP has hired to Jenny Knott as CEO of post-trade risk and information services, effective from 5 August...

Nasdaq’s Sentinel for ASX
02 July 2015 Sydney
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The Australian Securities Exchange has selected Nasdaq’s Sentinel post-trade technology to manage risk across clearinghouses...

Goal Group’s Noah Wortman joins ICGN committee
02 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Noah Wortman, COO of Goal Group in the Americas, has been appointed to the International Corporate Governance Network Shareholder Responsibilities Committee...

ESMA on track with MiFID and MiFIR standards
02 July 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued its final report the majority of the draft technical standards required for MiFID II and MiFIR...

Allfunds Bank recruits Simon Shapland
01 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Allfunds Bank has hired Simon Shapland to head up its office for the UK and Ireland, based in London...

SGSS opens Irish UCITS Gateway
01 July 2015 Dublin
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched Gateway, its Irish UCITS platform solution to help asset managers establish and market UCITS in Europe...

Broadridge wins BBVA post-trade mandate
01 June 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BBVA Group has adopted Broadridge’s Managed Service, as a post-trade utility model to support its fixed-income business in the US...

Regulations still the hot topic in funds industry
01 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Regulatory reform is still the biggest driver of evolution in the funds industry, but many still consider it a significant cost overhead with limited value, according to a survey by Northern Trust Depository Services...

Survey reveals Solvency II doubts
01 July 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

More than one in three insurance professionals and fund managers believe asset management companies are unprepared for providing the level of data their insurance clients will require under Solvency II...

First Swedish electronic fund transfer a success
01 July 2015 Stockholm
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Nordnet has successfully executed the first electronic mutual fund transfer in Sweden, in partnership with Fidelity and using the SWIFT global messaging network...

Iwona Sroka re-elected as KDPW president
30 June 2014 Warsaw
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Shareholders of the Polish central securities depository, KDPW, have unanimously re-elected Iwona Sroka for another term as president of the management board...

CACEIS and PwC: All change for fund distribution
30 June 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Retail fund distribution is “in the midst of the most profound structural change of the past 50 years”, according to a joint report from CACEIS and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Luxembourg...