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Fund managers unsure about AIFMD data
30 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The implementation of the AIFMD has been a success, but industry players are concerned over how regulators are using their data, and uncertain over the benefits to the market...

SGSS Luxembourg wins alternative funds mandate
30 June 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Athena Capital has chosen SGSS in Luxembourg to provide custody, administration, valuation and registrar services for its range of alternative investment funds...

Euroclear and CCB to develop RMB
29 June 2015 Hong Kong
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Euroclear Bank and China Construction Bank (CCB) have signed an agreement to further develop the offshore Renminbi (RMB) capital market...

Payments UK new voice for industry
29 June 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Payments UK is being launched on 29 June to provide a voice for the UK payments industry nationally, across Europe and through out the rest of the world...

Saemor Capital and Pelargos Capital appoint BNY Mellon
29 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

BNY Mellon has been appointed by alternative fund managers Saemor Capital and Pelargos Capital to provide AIFMD depositary, fund administration, and middle office and investor services for assets valued at €800 million...

SGSS launches Luxembourg hub
29 June 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched a fund distribution hub in Luxembourg to support asset management companies seeking to distribute UCITS and alternative investment funds internationally...

Maitland completes Phoenix Fund Services acquisition
29 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Maitland has received approval from the Financial Conduct Authority for its 100 percent acquisition of Phoenix Fund Services, effective 1 June 2015...

Linedata hires John Kiley
29 June 2015 Paris
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Linedata has appointed John Kiley as executive vice president of sales and co-head of the global front- and middle-office asset management business line...

Russian and Chinese CSDs team up
26 June 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD) and China Central Depository and Clearing (CCDC), which services governmental securities, have agreed to work together to boost participation in both markets...

Achmea expands BNY Mellon relationship
25 June 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Netherlands insurer Achmea has gone live on Eagle Investment Systems’s data management solution, deployed over its secure private cloud, Eagle ACCESS...

Guernsey fund industry growth in Q1 2015
25 June 2015 Saint Peter Port
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The value of investment fund business in Guernsey grew £2.8 billion, or 1.28 percent, during Q1 this year, according to the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC)...

SWIFT supports successful T2S launch
24 June 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT’s Value Added Network solution for Target2-Securities (T2S) went live as planned on 22 June, supporting the launch of the new pan-European securities settlement platform...