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SimCorp Dimension wins Swiss mandate
09 February 2016 St Gallen, Switzerland
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Vescore, the Swiss asset manager, has gone live with SimCorp’s Dimension investment management software solution for its institutional client business...

Nordic win for BNP Paribas Securities Services
09 February 2016 Helsinki
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Finnish financial services group Sampo Group has chosen BNP Paribas Securities Services to be its global custodian...

T2S delay confirmed for Clearstream CSDs
08 February 2016 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Clearstream has confirmed that its German and Luxembourgish CSDs will migrate to the T2S platform with wave four in February 2017, rather than in wave three, as originally planned...

Boutique firms in fintech merger
08 February 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Boutique corporate finance companies NovitasPartners and FTCL have completed a merger to become NovitasFTCL...

First South African LEI issuer endorsed
08 February 2016 Johannesburg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Strate has become the first institution to provide legal entity identifier services in South Africa, having received endorsement from the Regulatory Oversight Committee...

Wilkinson joins Lombard Risk
08 February 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Lombard Risk Management has hired Tina Wilkinson as global head of product...

FundBPO launches PFS-PAXUS software
05 February 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Australian fund administrator FundBPO has purchased licenses to use Pacific Fund Systems’s PFS-PAXUS fund accounting and administrative software for Hong Kong fund services business...

New senior vice president at Wedbush
05 February 2016 Los Angeles
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Wedbush Securities has promoted Sean Scanlon to the position of senior vice president and middle office manager...

ESMA clears the way for UK pension scheme exemptions
05 February 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The European Securities and Markets Authority has backed plans to exempt 16 UK pension schemes from central clearing obligations...

Costs affecting IRS clearing decision, says TABB
05 February 2016 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Costs are playing a major role in where buy-side firms are choosing to clear their interest rate swaps, according to a new report...

Blockchain a blessing for capital markets
05 February 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Although there are still barriers to the widespread adoption of blockchain in capital markets, a ‘wait-and-see’ approach could be damaging, according to a whitepaper by Euroclear and Oliver Wyman...

New CEO appointed for FCA
04 February 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

HM Treasury has appointed Andrew Bailey as the new CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority...