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UK Finance and IHS Markit assist CMORG to launch new framework

25 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Trade association UK Finance, with assistance from IHS Markit’s KY3P platform, has developed The Supplier Assurance Framework, as part of a wider effort to solve the industry problems associated with collective supplier assurance

Proxymity and Computershare partner for US vote confirmation pilot

25 February 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Proxymity and transfer agent Computershare have partnered to support an industry-led pilot intended to deliver end-to-end vote confirmations to improve the transparency of voting for investors and issuers

Assets on GBST’s Composer platform significantly increase in 2021

24 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Assets on GBST’s wealth management platform, Composer, increased by almost a fifth (18 per cent) to nearly £180 billion at year-end 2021

EFAMA sees rise in net sales of UCITS and AIFs for 2021 amid COVID-19 economic recovery

24 February 2022 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The main reasons for the increase were the advancing COVID-19 global vaccination campaign and the strength of economic recovery

Global class action securities litigation tops US$3 billion, says Broadridge report

23 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Among the identified trends in the report, there was a rise in SPAC and cryptocurrency-related securities litigation, the first of which was the Block.one settlement

MUFG Investor Services launches new business consulting group

14 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Jamie Wallace

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has launched a business consulting group, which aims to deliver intelligence and solutions to financial clients across the world

FundServ manager takes on new role at KPMG International

11 February 2022 Canada
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Kat Ball has been appointed as global people survey operations lead at KPMG International, following an extensive career in a variety of asset servicing roles

BNP Paribas reports “strong business drive” for 2021

10 February 2022 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

BNP Paribas’s end-of-year report showed that 2021 was a year of strong growth for its assets under custody and assets under administration, as well as its wider securities services

Funds raised by AST Industry Excellence Awards given to Mind

07 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Asset Servicing Times has donated £12,100 to Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich Mind from proceeds made during a silent auction at its first Industry Excellence Awards, held last year

GLEIF publishes Ecosystem Governance Framework for vLEI

07 February 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The framework defines the vLEI operational model and describes how the new ecosystem’s range of vLEI issuing stakeholders will qualify for and perform their roles in the Global LEI System

Goal Group launches new WHT forum

04 February 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Goal Group has launched a new forum, Goal – Withholding Tax Reclaims Forum, to serve as a discussion and knowledge-sharing forum for all professionals involved in reclaiming withholding tax on cross-border securities

EFAMA saw decrease in net sales of UCITS and AIFs for November amid Omicron concerns

31 January 2022 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The main reason for the decrease was due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 Omicron variant, the association says

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