News search | Securities Finance Times

Generic business image for news articles

SGSS improves admin and accounting in German
27 March 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Societe Generale Securities Services GmbH in Germany has improved its administration and accounting services for direct investments, in response to a growth in the market and drive towards greater transparency...

NSD launches reform website
27 March 2015 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Russia’s central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository (NSD) has launched a new website dedicated to the upcoming corporate actions reform...

Fundtech: Australian NPP could create opportunities
26 March 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Transaction solutions provider Fundtech has released a white paper that examines Australia’s New Payments Platform (NPP), advising institutions to prepare now for future technological developments...

Northern Trust names new EMEA hedge fund head
26 March 2015 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Northern Trust has appointed David Burnett as head of Northern Trust’s hedge fund services business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)...

UBS chooses SunGard’s Investran Insight
26 March 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

UBS Fund Services has implemented SunGard’s Investran Insight to provide investment managers and investors with interactive reporting, advanced analytics, and data visualisation across its private equity value chain...

Carlyle Group acquires Conifer Financial Services
26 March 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The Carlyle Group has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Conifer Financial Services LLC, an independent asset services firm...

Sapient Global Markets assesses trade reporting
26 March 2015 Boston
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Sapient Global Markets has published a new report examining the implementation and ongoing operational costs associated with over-the-counter derivatives trade reporting...

ALFI: chomping at the bitcoin
25 March 2015 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Virtual currency funds are creeping into existence, but early adopters might be getting their hopes up a little too soon, according to a panel at the ALFI Spring Conference...

BNP Paribas European depository tops €1 trillion
25 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

BNP Paribas Securities Services has reached over €1 trillion in assets held in its depositary bank in Europe, in its network covering 12 fund domiciles on the continent...

ESMA in a pickle over buy-ins
25 March 2015 Brussels
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The mandatory buy-in regime present in the CSDR is “an interesting conundrum” for the ESMA, according to chair Steven Maijoor...

Clarus calls for EMIR debate
25 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Clarus Financial Technology is pushing for greater debate around the format and extent of data made public on reporting under European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)...

HSBC chosen for first RQFII money market ETF
25 March 2015 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

HSBC has become the custodian bank and asset services provider for the first ever Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) money market exchange-traded fund (ETF). The ETF will be domiciled and listed in the UK...