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Cboe appoints Vikesh Patel as president of Cboe Clear Europe
22 December 2022 Europe
Reporter: Lyndsey Young

Patel has more than fifteen years of experience in financial market infrastructure

Yawar Shah retires from Swift board
16 December 2022 Belgium
Reporter: AST

Shah will step down from the Swift board of directors after 16 years as chair, but will continue as managing director in Citi’s institutional clients group

Amrita Divay appointed head of sales for Apex India
15 December 2022 India
Reporter: Lucy Carter

In this role, Divay will be responsible for the growth of Apex’s local and global offerings with its Indian and international clients

Swift Go adds more than 300 banks over 120 countries during 2022
29 November 2022 Belgium
Reporter: AST

This solution aims to deliver speed and transparency to payments of up to US$10,000, enabling users to send USD, GBP and EUR payments cross-border with a breakdown of how much it will cost them in deductions before they execute

Heath Davies named as TrustQuay non-executive chairman
28 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Working with Keith Hale, group CEO, he will be responsible for driving the company’s growth and global expansion

SIX Digital Exchange welcomes Alexandre Kech
24 November 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Based in Switzerland, Kech will be responsible for the digital securities business including sales and relationship management, product development, business design and ecosystem expansion

GLEIF and SWIFT partners to provide mapping of MICs to LEIs
15 November 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The MIC is an International Organization for Standardization code used to process and clear trades

SWIFT appoints Max Mamondez as chief financial officer
01 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Mamondez will serve on SWIFT’s executive committee and report directly to SWIFT’s CEO Javier Pérez-Tasso

Adaptive partners with Google Cloud to improve capital markets trading
19 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The collaboration follows Adaptive’s acquisition of low-latency trading technology provider Real Logic earlier this year, which provided the company with message transport and service container solutions through Real Logic’s Aeron suite

Fragmented data at root of settlement fails, say SIBOS panellists
17 October 2022 Netherlands
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The comments came from a panel entitled ‘Tackling the root of securities settlement fails’, with participants trying to establish the cause of dropped global settlement efficiency rates

Citi to launch 24/7 USD clearing in late 2022
11 October 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

This service is designed to enable Citi’s financial institution customers to make USD payments 24 hours per day, 7 days per week including public holidays

IXB pilot service set to revolutionise cross-border payments, says SWIFT, EBA and TCH
06 October 2022 Belgium
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The IXB pilot service will leverage the existing real-time payment systems RTP in the US, run by TCH, and EBA CLEARING’s RT1 in Europe