Bank of New York Mellon Corp (NYSE:BK) has appointed Hani Kablawi as the new Head of Investment Services for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Formerly Head of Asset Servicing for EMEA, Kablawi will lead the business strategy for Investment Services in the region and will continue to be based in London. Kablawi will report to…
Read moreAfter the international payments app launch last month, British bank Santander UK plc, wholly owned by the Spanish Santander Group (BME: SAN), announced that it has doubled the size of its fintech investment fund, from $100m to $200m, in what the bank describes as a sign of commitment to its philosophy of collaborating with startups. Santander…
Read moreThe European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its Advice in relation to the application of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) passport to non-EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in twelve countries: Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Japan, Jersey, Isle of Man, Singapore, Switzerland,…
Read moreAncoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy & sell-side firms, has announced that the financial consultant Tower Trading Group (TTG) has selected Ancoa’s market surveillance platform to monitor its multi-asset trading activities across all exchanges and Independent Services Providers (ISVs). Deployment of the Ancoa platform has been timed and designed to enhance…
Read moreHard to imagine that there's a been a busier retail forex broker out there than ETX Capital, at least looking at the first six months of this year. New brand. New logo. New platform. Changes in top management. Board changes. And it all seems to have been done as the company continues to grow into…
Read moreIt is the latest extension of the growing link between the two bourses following the earlier debut of TOPIX futures and ETFs tracking the TOPIX and Nikkei 225 indices in Taiwan The first-ever futures contract tracking the Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Exchange Index (TAIEX) to list on an overseas stock exchange debuted on…
Read moreInterdealer broker ICAP plc (LON:IAP) and global exchanges operator Bats Global Markets, Inc. (BATS:BATS) have announced that following a successful launch of ICAP’s cleared equity basket solution in April 2015, over €212 billion of notional trades have been routed through the Bats Exchange Trade Reporting (ETR) service for clearing during the financial year ended June…
Read moreExiger, the global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has announced the acquisition of The Poseidon Group, the Hong Kong and Singapore-based due diligence and business intelligence firm. With this acquisition, Exiger deepens its expertise throughout the Asia Pacific region. With the addition of Poseidon into its growing portfolio of specialized due diligence and…
Read moreElectronic trading technology provider Horizon Software has announced native connectivity to the Athens Exchange (ATHEX) for cash equities and derivatives. Horizon now provides more than 80 native gateways to exchanges and trading venues around the world. In Greece, Horizon provides low latency connectivity for transactions (ODL API 2.0 Dcom) and market data (IDS/IOCP). Now in production…
Read moreXTX Markets today announced that Chan Wai Kin has joined the firm’s sales team as Head of Sales for Asia. He was formerly Head of FICC eCommerce (APAC) at Morgan Stanley and previous to that, led the eFX sales team within the APAC (ex-Japan) region at Deutsche Bank. Jeremy Smart, Global Head of Sales at…
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