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ClearToken appoints Cerezetti as CRO
08 April 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

In his role as chief risk officer, Fernando Cerezetti will be responsible for leading the development and oversight of the CCP's risk management framework

Citi Investor Services to support Fullgoal Asset Management with ETF administration
01 April 2026 Hong Kong
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Citi will be offering trustee, custodian, and ETF administrator services for Hong Kong’s first domiciled ETF and the Fullgoal Hang Seng HK High Dividend ETF has been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

BMLL appoints Barrett
01 April 2026 US and UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Kevin Barrett will join BMLL's US team and will be responsible for driving the company's growth in the listed derivatives space

AutoRek selects Cathie
18 March 2026 UK
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

Former Gresham Technologies chief operating officer, Jonathan Cathie, brings operational experience scaling high-growth fintech businesses internationally

LSEG Post Trade Solutions launches TradeAgent
16 March 2026 UK
Reporter: Hansa Tote

The platform has been developed in collaboration with more than 10 banks and buy side firms to deliver practical solutions to post-trade processing challenges

Bank of Canada and firms complete DLT bond issuance experiment
06 March 2026 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The project is a collaborative initiative to evaluate how tokenisation and distributed ledger technology can improve bond issuance and settlement in a real-world setting

Prescient Group acquires Obsidian
05 March 2026 Guernsey
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The firm says that the entire Obsidian team, led by their CEO Jody Newark, will be integrated into Prescient

BlackRock appoints Citi
26 February 2026 US
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft

The collaboration follows a 2021 mandate where Citi was appointed as an additional post-trade service provider for BlackRock's US domiciled ETFs

FundRock appoints Stelter as Director
26 February 2026 Luxembourg
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Lindsey Stelter joins from IQ-EQ, where she worked across private markets and regulatory advisory

Six banks make equity investment into OSTTRA
26 February 2026 UK and US
Reporter: Hansa Tote

Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, HSBC, UBS Investment Bank, and Wells Fargo are all long-standing OSTTRA clients and users of its services

RAQUEST appoints Loscher to its advisory board
23 February 2026 Germany
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

Dirk Loscher joins an experienced panel that includes Peer Steinbrück, former German Minister of Finance, Karl von Rohr, former chairman of the DWS supervisory board, and Lourdes Bustos, former EU Commission policymaker

Teciem, backed by the Apax Funds, launched following acquisition of Finastra
09 February 2026 UK
Reporter: Zarah Choudhary

The Apax Funds are backing the newly established company, with the investment aimed to support product development and talent growth across the business