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SC Ventures, LBBW and Comyno take stakes in DekaBank’s SWIAT
27 January 2023 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The joint venture aims to create a uniform standard for processing blockchain-based securities, providing software that will form a decentralised financial infrastructure and frictionless, real-time settlement for derivatives and bond issuance

Paralel launches full-service platform
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Fintech firm Paralel has gone live with a new full-service platform for registered fund servicing, the first of its type to be launched in more than 20 years

ESMA provides comment on Europe’s sustainability reporting standards
27 January 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

ESMA has stated that EFRAG's first draft of European Sustainability Reporting Standards is ‘broadly capable’ of meeting investor protection and financial stability objectives

60% of c-suite developing new ESG products in 2023, says FIS
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The report, entitled 2023 Global Innovation, found that ESG is top of mind for financial services firms globally, with c-suite executives planning to invest significantly in ESG frameworks for the year ahead

Silvestre Fontes rejoins SEC’s Boston office
27 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed Silvestre Fontes as director of its Boston office, effective next week

ICMA publishes new post-trade framework for EU-traded sovereign bonds
26 January 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ICMA says the initiative will help to inform the current discussions among policy makers in the ongoing MiFIR review, and should help “pave the way for the inclusion of meaningful, well-calibrated” sovereign bond data in the EU bond consolidated tape

OptionsDesk onboards ION’s XTP suite
26 January 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The suite, consisting of ION’s XTP Trading, XTP Clearing and XTP Cleared Derivatives solutions, will help to facilitate OptionsDesk’s growth plans

FIS makes two more board appointments
26 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Fintech company FIS has appointed Lee Adrean and Mark Benjamin to its board of directors. These additions mark the fourth and fifth new board members who have joined over the past two years

MSCI partners with Google Cloud on new data platform
26 January 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Decision support tools and services provider MSCI has partnered with Google Cloud to create a cloud-native investment data acquisition and development platform

Capital Group chooses SS&C GIDS as UK fund transfer agent
26 January 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Investment company Capital Group has selected SS&C GIDS to act as transfer agent to Capital Group UK - Global High Income Opportunities Fund, its open-ended investment company

BNY Mellon launches outsourced trading solution for buy-side institutions
25 January 2023 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The offering, launched by BNY Mellon Capital Markets, will be powered by xBK, the buy-side trading division that executes more than $1 trillion in annual average trade volume for BNY Mellon’s Investment Management franchise

Corlytics buys ING SparQ to drive digitisation of regulatory value chain
25 January 2023 UK Ireland
Reporter: AST

Corlytics has worked with ING as a partner on the project since 2018 and currently supports more than 550 ING users with regulatory information and risk data across compliance, risk, regulatory affairs and legal