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Payments and account services continue to be at the ‘core’ of bank’s value proposition
25 November 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

EBA and McKinsey & Company have published a joint white paper on the future of banks in payments, which shows payments and account services continue to be at the core of banks’ value proposition

Interoperability needed to move information ‘much more quickly and securely’
25 November 2020 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Interoperability within the financial services industry can help in situations where we need to move around information much more quickly and securely, according to Sandra Ro, global blockchain business council CEO during an OECD panel

Vermeg launches collateral platform for SMEs ahead of UMR phase 5/6
25 November 2020 Holland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Many of the organisations affected by the final phases of UMR have typically managed their collateral management process on spreadsheets and have historically been unaffected by the regulations

BCS Global Markets prime services hires new business development chief
24 November 2020 Russia
Reporter: Natalie Turner

BCS Global Markets, the investment banking division of BCS Financial Group, has appointed Grigoriy Kozin as its new head of business development for its prime services division

Virtu-MarketAxess ETF partnership gains first asset manager users
24 November 2020 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Charles Schwab Investment Management and WisdomTree Asset Management are the first ETF issuers to sign-up Virtu's eNAV ETF analytics tool, which features MarketAxess’ Composite+ pricing engine

Dialogue between industry and regulators will help growth of security tokens, says SIFMA and PwC
24 November 2020 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

SIFMA has suggested that further dialogue between industry participants and regulators will help support the further growth of the markets for the security tokens and the adoption of the technology that supports them

FSB releases guidance on CCP financial resources for resolution
24 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The recent periods of market turmoil have demonstrated the benefits that central clearing brings for global financial stability, according to the FSB

Substantive Research launches new Analyst Mapping service
23 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Analyst Mapping will allow asset managers to gain an aggregated view of banks’ analyst moves, their seniority and sector coverage of relevance to them

BNP Paribas partners with CLSA to ease access to China’s equity capital markets
23 November 2020 Hong Kong
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

BNP Paribas Securities Services has partnered with CLSA as the latest partner broker for its multi approved partner (MAP) broker model for the China-Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme

Matthew Charleson joins SRS in fund services and ILS role
23 November 2020 Bermuda
Reporter: Maria Ward-Brennan

Matthew Charleson will be joining Strategic Risk Solutions as chief operating officer of fund services and insurance-linked securities, effective from 7 December 2020

Boaz Zilberman joins AccessFintech
23 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AccessFintech has named Boaz Zilberman as executive vice president for business development, bringing 20 years of broad experience in financial services to the role

Deutsche Boerse to take majority stake in ISS
20 November 2020 Germany
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Deutsche Boerse is set to acquire a majority share of approximately 80 percent in Institutional Shareholder Services, valuing ISS at $2.3 billion for 100 percent of the business (cash and debt free)