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Citi’s prime futures and securities services senior exec leaves
02 October 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Following the birth of her son nine months ago, Louise Rate has decided to step away from the financial industry to focus on her new family

“I’m a firm believer the regulator doesn’t give a stuff about millions of data fields,” says panellist
01 October 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Panellists at ISLA’s Annual Post Trade Conference debated ESMA’s motives behind SFTR and CSDR and expressed fears of missing the implementation deadline

HQLAᵡ welcomes new CFO
01 October 2019 Luxembourg
Reporter: Drew Nicol

HQLAᵡ has appointed a new CFO a week after completing its first simulated transactions on its securities lending blockchain platform

Lago Kapital secures another user of its liquidity solution
30 September 2019 Helsinki
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

After its recent mandate win with Northern conglomerate Aspo, Lago Kapital has signed another market-making agreement, this time with Siili Solutions

Leverage automation to avoid CSDR fines, says ISLA
30 September 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“The work undertaken by the CDSR working group has shone a light on legacy practices that were perhaps overdue for market review,” Adrian Dale of ISLA says

Vermeg secures Santander as first Brazilian client
27 September 2019 Brazil
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Vermeg has begun providing post-trade services to Santander Securities Services Brazil via its new office in Sao Paulo

ISLA reveals wish-list of market reforms
26 September 2019 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ISLA has laid out its vision for the industry’s future in a new whitepaper that includes a series of short and long-term reform proposals and plans for a new working group to tackle technological incompatibilities

DataLend gains new EMEA team lead
26 September 2019 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

EquiLend has brought on a former-BNY Mellon director as team lead for DataLend, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Sibos: SmartStream introduces AI to existing managed service offering
25 September 2019 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

SmartStream Technologies has introduced artificial intelligence into its existing managed service offering, which covers reconciliations, corporate actions, cash management and reference data

TCS launches SaaS platform for FIs to automate asset servicing
25 September 2019 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Tata Consultancy Services is targeting asset managers and broker-dealers with its new TCS BaNCs Cloud for asset servicing, which automates the servicing of all classes assets across all markets

Taskize reveals CSDR settlement discipline solution
24 September 2019 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Euroclear, which owns a stake in Taskize, has extended its existing relationship with the fintech firm in order to also offer the CSDR settlement discipline solution to its clients

Crypto exchange Lendingblock hires former-Goldman Sachs MD
24 September 2019 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Crypto exchange Lendingblock has appointed former-Goldman Sachs and Nomura senior executive John Macpherson as a strategic advisor