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On Friday Credit Suisse said it was exiting transition management with the closure of its American business by the end of the month. Yesterday, J.P. Morgan confirmed it is exiting the business in all regions except Asia Pacific. more
BNP Paribas Securities Services’ dealing services desk for buy-side clients will insource the dealing activities of Neuflize OBC, ABN AMRO Group subsidiary. more
Temasek, the investment company owned by the Singapore government, has made a “significant equity investment” in global financial information services company Markit. more
BNY Mellon has signed a framework agreement with the Eurosystem to allow it to outsource settlement to the T2S settlement platform, which is set to go live in June 2015. more
FIX Protocol, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body for global electronic trading community, has published updated recommended guidelines for the use of FIX for post-trade processing. more
On the day of announcing its full year results, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) said it wants to focus on capturing more of the €800 million settlement market in the eurozone as it prepares for TARGET-2 Securities (T2S), the harmonized settlement platform for securities in Europe. In an interview with Global Custodian, Paolo Cittadini, CEO of Monte Titoli, the LSEG’s CSD subsidiary outlines how it will do this. more
Pershing Advisor Solutions and BNY Mellon's Wealth Management Advisor Custody Group have joined forces to offer a single-service integrated bank and brokerage custody offering for wealth management adviser clients. more
Discussions around a potential stock exchange grouping of Central and Eastern European Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG) and the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) continue apace, with securities industry services experts calling it the most meaningful and most likely grouping for the region. more
Lou Lebedin has joined investment bank advisory firm Doran Jones as partner. more
BNP Paribas's corporate and investment banking division has appointed Lionel Crassier as new head of global equities and commodity derivatives for the Americas, based out of New York. Crassier has been over 15 year industry experience and has held senior
Marshall will be responsible for strategic planning and the development of the technology and infrastructure that KNEIP uses to help fund managers meet with new regulatory requirements such as AIFMD. more
BNY Mellon has been appointed depositary bank by UBIC, Inc., a Japanese computer forensics company. It is the first ADR capital raising by a Japanese firm since 2009, BNY Mellon says. more
Misys has released v5 of its Sophis VALUE buy-side solution. more
Gilliat Financial Solutions, the U.K. structured product provider, has signed SuperDerivatives for access to real-time data across multiple asset classes, including FX, commodities, interest rates, credit and equities. more
SunGard has developed a new consolidated technology platform to help financial firms achieve competitive advantages by streamlining their regulatory compliance management. more
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has launched a new ARC Logics Conduct Risk Governance solution tailored for firms governed by the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). more
Will T2S be delayed (yet again) beyond the June 2015 target implementation date?