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Synthetic Finance Summit IV, 9th July, London

19 June 2013

Global Investor/ISF invites asset managers and hedge funds to register free for the event held at Le Meridien Piccadilly More »
BNY Mellon appoints Asia Pacific head of asset servicing

19 June 2013

Michael Chan moves from role of sales and business development More »
Equiniti launches pooled custody and back office service

19 June 2013

Offering for wealth managers and stockbrokers in response to market demand More »
Good climate for hedge fund managers

19 June 2013

SEB outlines mildly positive market prospects and a belief in rising markets and value generation More »
Lending CCP extends market coverage and service scope

19 June 2013

Eurex’s Lending CCP adds France and the Netherlands blue-chip equities and new service for voluntary corporate actions More »
Markit acquires DTCC’s Corporate Actions Validation Service

19 June 2013

Acquisition expands Markit’s reference data offering More »
Mirabaud AM hires global equities head Anu Narula

19 June 2013

Narula joins from Axa Framlington More »
Morgan Stanley added to Boost ETP platform

19 June 2013

New addition brings the total of authorised participants to six More »
Moscow Exchange to add five German single stock futures

19 June 2013

Underlyings will be made available for trading on the derivatives market of Moscow Exchange as of September 2013 More »
Nikko AM appoints Ross Long as chief legal officer

19 June 2013

Long joins on June 24 and holds global responsibility for all legal functions More »
Prioritising investment data management

19 June 2013

76% of top-tier fund managers view significant increase in prioritising data, said DST Global survey More »
HSBC boost broker-dealer outsourcing solution

18 June 2013

Offering to cover Europe, Asia, MENA, US and Latin America More »
Ashburton to be part of FirstRand

18 June 2013

New asset manager will become the fourth financial services franchise of FirstRand More »
BNY Mellon boosts collateral service team

18 June 2013

Appoints two senior appointments More »
Asset price inflation concerns growing

17 June 2013

Investors now view developed market equities as overvalued, along with bonds, says CFA Society of the UK More »
Harvest launches US distribution

17 June 2013

Offers China and Asia-focussed mutual funds to US institutional and retail investors More »
Investors concerns over financial repression

17 June 2013

Over 66% of investors want asset managers to prioritise a deeper understanding of the debt crisis and its hidden risks and opportunities, says CREATE-Research More »
LDI market dominated by three fund managers

17 June 2013

Legal & General, Insight and BlackRock control 90% of the industry, says KPMG More »
S&P Capital IQ launches Portfolio Risk solution

17 June 2013

New offering delivering Real-Time Risk Analysis for Multi-Asset Class Portfolios More »
SocGen develops custody services in Ghana

17 June 2013

Expansion further strengthens SocGen’s presence on the African continent More »
QSuper's journey to securities lending

12 June 2013

Kyle Ringrose explains how he received internal approval to start a securities lending programme. Hardeep Dhillon reports More »
Nigeria regulates margin lending

14 June 2013

Move is a response to speculative and unsupervised use of margin loans to fund investment in listed equities More »
Alain Dubois to leave Lyxor

12 June 2013

He will move to London to join MSCI in August More »
Servicing hedge funds

13 June 2013

Prime brokers need to invest resources to retain and attract clients, say SunGard and Finadium More »
JPMorgan enhances collateral mgt services

18 June 2013

Collateral Central to provide complete collateral portfolio management More »

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Alternatives

Investors to increase hedge fund allocation

23 May 2013

Investors are interested in allocating to smaller hedge fund managers, according to a new Aima survey

Corporate strategy

Alain Dubois to leave Lyxor

12 June 2013

He will move to London to join MSCI in August

Insurance asset management

Insurers aided in improving risk management

11 June 2013

SunGard ties up with Conning to enhance reporting and investment decision-making for insurance companies

Investment strategies

Good climate for hedge fund managers

19 June 2013

SEB outlines mildly positive market prospects and a belief in rising markets and value generation

Investors

Harvest launches US distribution

17 June 2013

Offers China and Asia-focussed mutual funds to US institutional and retail investors

Offshore

Harvest launches US distribution

17 June 2013

Offers China and Asia-focussed mutual funds to US institutional and retail investors

Regulation

Synthetic Finance Summit IV, 9th July, London

19 June 2013

Global Investor/ISF invites asset managers and hedge funds to register free for the event held at Le Meridien Piccadilly

Wealth management

Equiniti launches pooled custody and back office service

19 June 2013

Offering for wealth managers and stockbrokers in response to market demand

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Clearing and settlement

BoE on CCP supervisory approach

10 June 2013

The Bank of England has published a paper on clearinghouses

Custody & sub custody

Equiniti launches pooled custody and back office service

19 June 2013

Offering for wealth managers and stockbrokers in response to market demand

Exchanges

Eurizon Capital acquires QFII license

07 June 2013

Intesa Sanpaolo's asset management business is the first Italian entity to obtain the QFII permit

Fund services

BNY Mellon appoints Asia Pacific head of asset servicing

19 June 2013

Michael Chan moves from role of sales and business development

Repo and Tri-party

BoE’s Hauser calls for robust repo market

12 June 2013

Too much or too little repo can be bad for the financial markets and having the right balance is important, according to Andrew Hauser at the Bank of England

Securities lending

Lending CCP extends market coverage and service scope

19 June 2013

Eurex’s Lending CCP adds France and the Netherlands blue-chip equities and new service for voluntary corporate actions

Trading & Technology

Moscow Exchange to add five German single stock futures

19 June 2013

Underlyings will be made available for trading on the derivatives market of Moscow Exchange as of September 2013

Transition Management

JPMorgan's Australia TM to stay open

21 May 2013

As news hits the headlines about JPMorgan shutting down its transition management business, Global Investor/ISF learns the bank is keeping its Australia business open

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