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Cobalt appoints new global head of sales and business
02 November 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Cobalt has appointed a new global head of sales and business development

Saxo Bank appoints new Global CFO
29 October 2018 Copenhagen
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Saxo Bank has appointed new global CFO

Standard Chartered granted custody license in China
29 October 2018 Singapore
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Standard Chartered Bank (China) has become the first foreign bank to be granted a domestic fund custody license by the China Securities Regulatory Commission

ESMA publishes first EU derivatives report
18 October 2018 Paris
Reporter: Brian Bollen

Trade repositories reported a total of 74 million open transactions at the end of 2017, amounting to a gross notional outstanding of around €660 trillion, according to ESMA’s first annual statistic report on the EU’s derivatives markets

IHS Markit launches new portal for custodians
11 October 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

IHS Markit has launched a portal that consolidates critical data for participants in the $1 trillion syndicated loan market

Northern Trust appoints new director of strategy
09 October 2018 Chicago
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Northern Trust has developed its asset servicing team for the Americas through the appointment of a new director of strategy

Another good month for ASX
04 October 2018 Sydney
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The Australia Stock Exchange revealed that total capital raised was $8.1 billion in September 2018, up 1 percent from September 2017, the previous corresponding period

Every Fund Survey: Increasing operational efficiency is the key priority for asset management
26 September 2018 Geneva
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Increasing operational efficiency is the key priority for asset management, the latest Temenos Multifonds Fund Survey found

Fenergo: global financial institutions fined $26 billion for non-compliance
26 September 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

A decade after the 2008 Financial Crisis, Fenergo has unveiled data of fines imposed on financial institutions over the course of the last 10 years

RBC: Increased regulation top challenge for Canadian asset managers
19 September 2018 Toronto
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Canadian asset managers are not immune to the evolving changes impacting the financial services sector, according to a recent national poll by RBC Investor & Treasury Services

Northern Trust hires Dan Houlihan
05 September 2018 Chicago
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Northern Trust has hired Dan Houlihan as head of asset servicing for Americas, a newly-created position

Liquidnet: Two-thirds of asset management firms planning for hard Brexit
20 August 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Some 83 percent of firms have a theoretical plan to respond to Brexit, but only 49 percent of firms have put their plan into action, according to a study conducted by Liquidnet