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Sunil Daswani rejoins MarketAxess following his departure from Standard Chartered Bank

Sunil Daswani, global head of securities lending at Standard Chartered, has departed from the bank after more than three years

Timo Reinschmidt joins German fintech SWIAT from Standard Chartered Bank, where he worked in management for eight years

The Jersey-based financial technology company will work with Clearstream, NatWest, Standard Chartered Bank, Arlingclose, BankClarity and Alpha Group to support the trading of secured deposits and to extend access to wholesale SFT markets

With an initial capital injection of US$155.6 million, the new firm Standard Chartered Securities (China) Limited will cover underwriting, asset management and brokerage activities, following CSRC approval

Nick Heale joins the digital assets team at Standard Chartered Bank, where he will assist with the operational build-out for digital assets

Andy Ross has been appointed as global head of prime and financing, financing and securities services at Standard Chartered, and will serve as financial markets head in the UK

Standard Chartered has appointed Simon Kellaway as global head of sales, financing and securities services

Zodia Custody, a Standard Chartered Bank subsidiary, has extended access for its institutional customers to the Fireblocks Network, providing linkage to more than 1000 liquidity providers, lending desks, trading venues and counterparties

Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong (SCBHK) is to acquire RBC Investor Services Trust Hong Kong Limited, subject to regulatory approval

Kaizen Reporting announces five new hires with Gavin Beard, former FMO regulator lead at Standard Chartered, appointed to client relationship manager

The move comes after OSL and Standard Chartered recently partnered to launch a Europe and UK-focused digital asset brokerage and exchange joint-venture