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Securities industry 'ripe' for APIs, says SWIFT and BCG
30 July 2019 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Application programming interface interest is rapidly growing in the post-trade area, according to a new report by SWIFT and The Boston Consulting Group

Sibos reveal closing plenary speaker
11 July 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, will deliver the closing plenary at Sibos 2019 in September

Processed orders of cross-border funds increase by more than 90 percent
10 July 2019 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The total automation rate of processed orders of cross-border funds increased to 90.4 percent in Q4 2018, according to a joint report by EFAMA and SWIFT

ISLA ramps up SFTR preparation
04 July 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

In preparation for SFTR, ISLA has decomplexified corporate actions

Sibos reveal opening plenary speaker
02 July 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Dame Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), will deliver the opening plenary at Sibos 2019 in September

State Street Bank to pay settlement charges related to custody
28 June 2019 Washington DC
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

State Street Bank and Trust has agreed to pay over $88 million to settle charges for overcharging mutual funds and other registered investment company clients for expenses related to the firm's custody of client assets

NSD sees increase in custody figures for Q1 19
06 June 2019 Moscow
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The National Securities Depository’s value of securities under custody reached RUB 46.2 trillion, a 10 percent increase compared with the same period of 2018

JSE launches new clearing solution
22 May 2019 Johannesburg
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The new solution enables JSE to allow for centralised risk management as well as utilisation of assets and clearing efficiency

ASX opens CDE for equities clearing and settlement
07 May 2019 Sydney
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Additional functionality will be released at approximately eight-week intervals, culminating in full functionality in the CDE by mid-2020

Volante expands VolPay-as-a-Service for payments
01 May 2019 New York
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Volante Technologies has expanded VolPay-as-a-Service to combine corporate to bank connectivity, corporate on-boarding and end-to-end processing of all US domestic and cross-border payment types

SWIFT appoints Javier Pérez-Tasso new CEO
26 April 2019 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Based at SWIFT’s headquarters in Belgium, Pérez-Tasso will replace Gottfried Leibbrandt who announced his intention to step down from the post at the end of June 2019

Banco BASE selects Volante for payments processes
11 April 2019 Mexico City
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Banco Base has implemented Volante’s VolPay for end-to-end domestic and international payment processing for domestic and international payments