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Citi revamps collateral custody accounts
09 April 2013 New York
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Citi has expanded its Citi OpenInvestor suite of investment services to include segregated collateral custody accounts. The new accounts are hoped to help clients better mitigate counterparty risk...

Clearstream and Belfius expand collateral services
18 January 2013 Frankfurt
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Clearstream and Belfius have agreed to develop exclusively a new collateral management activity for bilateral trades, focusing on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and aimed primarily at corporates and medium-sized banks...

BNY Mellon establishes CSD
08 January 2013 Brussels and London
Reporter: Jenna Jones

BNY Mellon has received regulatory approval to launch a new issuer central securities depository (CSD) entity, offering market participants enhanced interoperability and efficiency...

Fidessa examines derivatives markets
26 June 2012 London
Reporter: Georgina Lavers

Fidessa has a new white paper, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which examines how the previously separate OTC and exchange-traded markets are being brought together by overlapping regulations...

Fidessa issues new regulation white paper
13 June 2012 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Trading, investment management and information solutions provider Fidessa has released a white paper that examines the regulatory pressures facing the financial industry in Europe...

Standard Chartered picked by Euroclear for AED clearing
14 February 2012 Dubai
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Euroclear Bank has selected Standard Chartered to provide cash clearing services in the UAE...

NASDAQ OMX selected by Poland clearing house
14 February 2012 Stockholm
Reporter: Anna Reitman

NASDAQ OMX has announced it is selected to deliver its OTC clearing and risk-management system to Polish clearing house KDPW CCP...

Eurex Clearing's Zickwolff elected as EACH chair
09 February 2012 Barcelona
Reporter: Anna Reitman

The European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH) has announced the election of Marcus Zickwolff, head of trading and system clearing design at Eurex Clearing, as chair for a two-year term...

Group of seven lobby EC over clearing access
04 October 2011 London
Reporter: Anna Reitman

Associations representing issuers, investors and brokers and market intermediaries expressed their concerns over clearing access in a joint letter to Commissioner Michel Barnier from the European Commission...

RBC Dexia hires new executive for Middle East & Africa
03 October 2011 Dubai
Reporter: Anna Reitman

RBC Dexia Investor Services has announced the appointment of Cormac Sheedy as senior executive officer for Middle East and Africa based in Dubai...

Vertical integration can coexist with interoperability – SIX x-clear
22 September 2011 SIBOS Toronto
Reporter: Anna Reitman

As European clearers prepare for some 50 per cent of the cash equities market to open up over the next couple of months, interoperability, or the lack thereof, is the hot topic among post-trade services providers...

NBAD implements Megara for custody operations
20 September 2011 SIBOS
Reporter: Justin Lawson

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has gone live with Megara - Vermeg’s independently industry accredited custody system.....