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Pirum supports clients with MiFID II collateral reporting requirements
25 October 2021
UK Reporter Carmella Haswell

Pirum clients are able to report at scale, in the format and frequency required by regulators, to all their counterparts

AFME: CSDR mandatory buy-in rules are “fundamentally flawed”
21 October 2021
UK Reporter Jenna Lomax

The Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) rulings, relating to mandatory buy-ins, are “fundamentally flawed”, according to James Cunningham, head of European regulatory and market initiatives at BNY Mellon

AFME: T+2 is quicker than it used to be, but is it enough?
20 October 2021
UK Reporter Maddie Saghir

The settlement date for stocks used to be T+5, before moving to T+3, and now most markets operate on a T+2 settlement cycle, but panellists at the AFME conference discussed whether or not the T+2 cycle is enough

U.S. Bank launches cryptocurrency custody services
15 October 2021
US Reporter Jenna Lomax

U.S. Bank has launched its cryptocurrency custody services which will be available to its global fund services clients

Turquoise enhances investor access to trade US shares with direct settlement into DTC
28 September 2021
UK Reporter Maddie Saghir

The new expansion will allow global investors to trade in a greater number of US stocks through one connection, alongside UK, Swiss and European securities

3forge introduces IDE to its US equity platform AMI
02 September
US Reporter Jenna Lomax

The IDE solution is directly built into the AMI platform’s dashboard in an effort to increase developer productivity and to accelerate and simplify the creation of complex dashboards and workflows

Tradeweb appoints Sara Furber
31 August 2021
US Reporter Jenna Lomax

Based in New York, Furber will report to CEO Lee Olesky and will also become a member of Tradeweb’s executive leadership team

Assets under custody surge to new record, ACSA reveals
06 August 2021
Australia Reporter Maddie Saghir

ACSA reveals assets under custody surged by 10.9 per cent to a new record of $4.4 trillion in the six months to 30 June 2021, according to the Australian Custodial Services Association

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Meeting the challenge

Allvue’s Robert Sims talks to Lucy Carter about the challenges general partners are facing in the current environment and what they need to be doing to keep up with changing times

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The fuel powering digitisation

APIs have been around for some time but their significance is growing in the asset servicing industry as experts say they are the fuel powering digitalisation

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The devil is in the data

Industry experts discuss the regulatory initiatives that are having the biggest impact on their business and lessons to be learnt from regulatory data integrity and control processes

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Shift in momentum

Although the hedge fund industry has matured over the years, experts say it is still in its infancy, and it is currently seeing a significant shift in momentum in outsourcing middle and back-office services

Interviews
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Robert Bluhm
Universal Investment

Following on from its ‘Best ESG Initiative’ win at AST’s Industry Excellence Awards, Universal Investments’ Robert Bluhm talks to Lucy Carter about what makes the company’s ESG offerings stand out

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Robert Garrison
DTCC

The frenzy around blockchain has been unprecedented, but is it a disruptive force on the verge of replacing legacy infrastructures, or will its effect be only marginal? Robert Garrison, DTCC’s chief information officer, explains

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Paul Roberts
IFDS

Paul Roberts of IFDS anticipates that the continuing effects of regulation and requirements for continual investment may see further contraction in the number of providers within the industry

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Paul Roberts
Milestone Group

Securing the right balance of oversight is an important challenge for fund managers today, says Milestone Group’s Paul Roberts

Country profiles
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Chile

Brian Bollen discusses current investment opportunities in South America, the takeaways from BME’s November Latibex Forum, and why State Street decided to open a new office in Chile

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Luxembourg

Brian Bollen looks at Luxembourg’s climate for foreign investors, the change of pace and direction needed for the country’s fintech initiatives, and the wider economic strain impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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The Nordics

Brian Bollen takes a look at Nordic asset servicing and its current CSD models following the economic upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic and the more recent Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Italy

It is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic dealt Italy and its economy a hard blow in the first half of 2020. Industry experts explain why 2021 has been a different story and outline what the future holds for the country’s asset servicing

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