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State Street adds fund services to its custody offerings for clients in Mexico
12 April 2022 Mexico
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

State Street has launched an integrated fund trading solution along with its custody offering for clients in Mexico

DTCC blocks Russian securities from Bank of Russia
03 March 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

DTCC has blocked Russian securities from the Bank of Russia and The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Euroclear and Clearstream halt settlements for Russian securities
02 March 2022 Europe
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Euroclear Bank and Clearstream are no longer accepting Russian ruble as a settlement currency on their international central securities depositories in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

SWIFT blocks some Russian banks in response to Ukraine invasion
01 March 2022 Europe
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SWIFT has blocked some Russian banks from its international payments system in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

ISITC Europe CIC bolsters advisory board
25 February 2022 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ISITC Europe CIC has appointed SWIFT’s Charifa El Otmani to its advisory board

Russia’s central bank restricts short selling
25 February 2022 Russia
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Bank of Russia has imposed a ban on short selling that came into effect on Thursday 24 February and will remain until further notice

Citco unveils commercial gateway to SWIFT network
03 February 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Citco Fund Services has launched a commercial gateway to provide financial institutions with access to the SWIFT messaging service

HSBC becomes first international custodian to facilitate a QFI trade in BSE
05 January 2022 China
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

HSBC has successfully facilitated a transaction in Beijing Stock Exchange, placed by an offshore investor via the Qualified Foreign Investor scheme, becoming the first international custodian to facilitate a QFI trade in BSE

SETL joins forces with SWIFT for digital assets pilot
23 December 2021 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SETL is to work with SWIFT on an innovation pilot as part of a wider effort to support interoperability in the development of the tokenised asset market

EBA Clearing successfully completes migration of RT1 technical account to TIPS
13 December 2021 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

EBA Clearing has completed a successful migration of the RT1 technical account from TARGET2 to the TARGET Instant Payment Settlement

Corlytics launches financial crime regulation tracker
16 November 2021 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Regulatory risk intelligence firm Corlytics has launched a themed financial crime tracker to provide firms with a single view of digitised, risk-rated and visualised fincrime regulations

Funds processing automation reaches new heights
27 October 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

A new joint report from EFAMA and SWIFT found that the automation rates of cross-border fund orders reached 93.2 per cent in 2020