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ESMA prioritises sustainability, CMU and digitalisation for 2022
28 September 2021 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator takes on new supervisory powers for benchmarks and data service providers and will concentrate on building a single rulebook and promoting its role as an EU capital markets data hub

Funds of hedge funds administered by Citco see significant growth for H1 2021
28 September 2021 British Virgin Islands
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Funds of hedge funds administered by Citco continued to see significant growth in H1 2021, following a “solid 2020”, the global hedge fund administrator cites

Turquoise enhances investor access to trade US shares with direct settlement into DTC
28 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The new expansion will allow global investors to trade in a greater number of US stocks through one connection, alongside UK, Swiss and European securities

Octopus Investments’ launches first sustainably conscious fund
28 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Octopus Investments has launched Octopus UK Future Generations Fund, an initiative to back firms whose activities align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

MarketAxess extends global fixed income trading network to China’s Bond Market
27 September 2021 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Global investors on MarketAxess are now able to trade onshore Chinese bonds through a single trading interface

RFA launches DevSecOps service to mitigate crypto fund theft
27 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

RFA has launched a development security operations service and an application lifecycle management as additions to its data management suite of services, to help mitigate the theft of crypto funds

BNY Mellon makes three key hires within its asset servicing team
27 September 2021 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BNY Mellon has made three new appointments to support digital asset technology, digital custody and blockchain

MUFG develops Wealth Management Digital Platform
27 September 2021 Japan
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The platform will provide wealth management services across the Group to assist MUFG customers with the financial planning objectives

ESMA recommends delaying buy-in rules
27 September 2021 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The EU regulator has written to the European Commission urging it to reconsider a delay of the mandatory buy-in regime

AFME: The regulation of cryptocurrency is the ‘elephant in the room’
27 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

In the context of the increasing growth of DLT, and the wake of recent market developments, AFME panellists discussed regulatory priorities in the digital assets space

Under-investment in post-trade has caused a lack of industry visibility into custodian expenses, survey finds
27 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The lack of firm-wide visibility into brokerage, custodian, exchange and clearing expenses is the result of under-investment in post-trade processes, a recent report by Meritsoft has concluded, after the group conducted an industry wide survey

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