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Euroclear Bank to Open Dubai Office
Euroclear Bank, the international central securities depository (ICSD), will open a representative office in Dubai, further strengthening its long-standing commitment to Middle Eastern clients. The office located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) will have space for 10 employees and will be headed by Bernard Ferran, Director and Regional Head. He takes...
State Street Global Advisors Announces Key Appointments to Fixed Income Leadership Team
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street today announced the appointment of Bill Street as global head of Fixed Income Alpha Strategies, reporting to Kevin Anderson, global chief investment officer for Fixed Income and Currency. Street, who is based in London, was previously co-head of Active Fixed Income, alongside William...
Standardisation of Issuer Announcements and Key Dates are Central to Tackling Corporate Actions Efficiency, Says AFME’s Frey
The two key success factors to effectively tackling the basic inefficiencies of the corporate actions space are ensuring that issuer announcements are submitted in a standardised format and that corporate actions events are compliant with key dates and these are in the correct sequence, said Werner Frey, managing director of the Association for Financial Markets...
State Street Launches Mobile App for iPad
State Street, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced a new mobile application for the iPad, State Street Springboard, which will be available in the Apple App Store this fall. State Street Springboard allows clients to view essential portfolio information that is specifically designed for mobile users and...
Olivier Birgel joins BI-SAM as Business Development Director Europe
BI-SAM, the company behind B-One, the global award winning data management, performance and risk attribution, GIPS composites administration and client reporting solution, announced the appointment of Olivier Birgel as Business Development Director Europe. With 15 years of experience within the Asset Management industry, Olivier has been responsible for the development of business in several territories...
ISSA’s Gnepf Highlights Issuer Outreach Programme for Promotion of its Nine Corporate Actions Principles
Following the development of its nine principles for corporate actions best practices last year, the International Securities Services Association (ISSA) is now engaged in an issuer and issuer agent market outreach programme to promote these principles. Speaking at yesterday’s corporate actions seminar organised by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), Peter Gnepf, secretariat...
Talend Enables Unified Integration in the Cloud
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced Talend Cloud, its Cloud-enabled Integration Platform and the first comprehensive unified integration platform for the cloud and hybrid IT environments. An extension of the recently announced Unified Integration Platform, Talend Cloud offers elasticity, ubiquity, extensibility, security and reliability to those organisations looking to ensure the integrity...
Markit Launches Markit iBoxx European Abs Index
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced the launch of the Markit iBoxx European ABS index, a cash bond index designed to track the performance of the European floating-rate asset backed securities (ABS) market. The Markit iBoxx European ABS index provides investors with a benchmark to assess returns available on European ABS...
Virginie’s Blog – What Would a US Derivatives Reform Delay Mean for the OFR?
It is no secret that the success of any new regulatory agency, such as the US Treasury’s recently established Office of Financial Research (OFR), is predicated on it receiving the political and financial support it needs to survive. But what happens if the foot is taken off the pedal of the derivatives reforms on which...
Data Management Consultancy 3di Appoints Ken Cordery as Sales Manager, EMEA
3d innovations (3di), a data management consultancy specialising in market, reference and derived/computational data,today announced the appointment of Ken Cordery, as sales manager, EMEA. Cordery will be responsible for client accounts and commercial management. He joins 3di from Ballintrae. Cordery began his career as a trader at Citibank, and moved into a variety of financial...