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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...

Moody’s offers CCP ratings
24 June 2015 New York
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Moody’s has proposed a global methodology for rating central counterparties (CCPs) and invited market participants to provide feedback...

SimCorp: Asset managers mistrust their own numbers
23 June 2015 Copenhagen
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

More than half of asset managers do not wholly trust their own investment performance figures, according to a survey by SimCorp...

SunGard’s MarketMap to cover more ground
23 June 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SunGard’s MarketMap data solution has been enhanced to include additional social sentiment, reputational risk and short interest content..

Clearstream's assets under custody rocket
23 June 2015 Frankfurt
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The overall value of assets that Clearstream held under custody for its customers increased 10 percent to €13.4 trillion in May...

EFAMA elects Alexander Schindler as president
22 June 2015 Lisbon
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has elected Alexander Schindler as president for a two-year term...

BNY Mellon appoints global distribution co-heads
22 June 2015 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon Investment Management has promoted Kim Mustin and Matt Oomen to co-heads of global distribution...