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Exclusive: Credit Benchmark consensus data reveals mixed bag of results
22 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

"Overall improvement is always welcome, even if moves are minor. As important as banks are to the real economy, entities like clearers and custodians are the backbone of the financial system," David Carruthers highlights

AFME: Pandemic acted as a “call to arms” for post-trade industry to improve “cumbersome” technologies
19 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The COVID-19 pandemic acted as a “call to arms” for the post-trade industry to improve “cumbersome and outdated” technologies, according to Archie Stebbings, partner at management consulting firm Oliver Wyman

AFME: The regulator will ‘struggle’ to catch up with the evolving digital assets space
19 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The industry is entering a fascinating era and the regulator will struggle to catch up because the system is evolving rapidly and becoming extremely dynamic, experts predict

HSBC appoints Matt Bowen as head of securities financing
18 October 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“Matt Bowen will lead the build-out of our US arranged financing proposition, to help grow our footprint with US institutional clients, connecting them to our global network," said Loic Lebrun

BNY Mellon's Pershing appoints Ainslie Simmonds
15 October 2021 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Based in New York, Simmonds will join Pershing's executive committee

European private market ESG assets will “skyrocket” to €1.2 trillion by 2025, predicts PwC
12 October 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The statistic, which appears in PwC’s report entitled EU Private Markets: ESG Reboot, reflects the continuing change that ESG is creating for the European private market landscape

ARK36 appoints Anto Paroian as COO
07 October 2021 Cyprus
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Anto Paroian will supervise all of the ARK36’ operations and activities from its headquarters in Cyprus

ALFI: The alternatives markets are getting ‘larger and larger’
01 October 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Fund distribution in the European economic area was a hot topic at the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry Digi Pulse USA Virtual Event

Apex launches digital marketing platform Apex Profilir
30 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Apex Group has rebranded the Software-as-a-Solution (SaaS) Senasen platform as Apex Profilir, following its acquisition of the Senasen Group in June

Exclusive: Cooper Wood & Associates appoints two industry experts
30 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Cooper Wood & Associates has appointed David Painter and Paul Harris to support its growth and future development

AFME: Pandemic forced better data and technology resilience to combat operational risk
24 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The COVID-19 pandemic provided an increased level of data and technology resilience for the financial sector, agreed a panel at this year’s AFME European Capital Markets Technology and Innovation Virtual Conference

ALFI: Distribution is ‘the name of the game’ in Brazil
23 September 2021 Luxembourg
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

In Brazil, the name of the game for international asset managers to tackle the market is distribution, according to Isabella Nunes head of sales Brazil J.P. Morgan Asset Management