CREST announced that it settled 73.4 million transactions in 2001, a rise of 26% on volumes in 2000, Turnover increased by 29% to 63.2 trillion. CREST also settled a record daily volume of over 480,000 transactions during the year. Membership
The shareholders of Government Securities Clearing Corporation (GSCC), MBS Clearing Corporation (MBSCC) and the Emerging Markets Clearing Corporation (EMCC) have approved a plan for the three organizations to become subsidiaries of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). The integration,
State Street has acquired a minority interest in ByAllAccounts Inc., an account aggregation service company based in Woburn, Massachusetts. State Street will also begin using ByAllAccounts' WebPortfolio aggregation service, which collects customer data from various financial firms and consolidates the
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Systems & Services Technologies, Inc. (SST) announced that the parties have signed a definitive agreement under which JPMorgan will acquire SST, a wholly owned subsidiary of III Associates. A leading third party servicer, SST
David Bilbe, the SVP who is the public face of institutional custody sales at State Stteet Bank & Trust Company in London, is joining Brown Brothers Harriman as Managing Director of Investor Services. Unlike State Street, BBH is not seeking
Finnish custodians wrestling with client service complaints have long had to struggle with one of the least developed market infrastructures in Europe. So they are among supporters of the plan by the Helsinki Stock Exchange (HEX) to develop a new
Continuing to reform India's securities processing infrastructure, the country's regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has slated April 1 to shorten the settlement cycle from five days to three days. The decision came in a brief statement
Merrill Lynch plans to close its Denver Meridian Complex backofficeoperations by midyear, affecting about 1,200 employees, who will have achance to relocate or get a severance package. The 125 or so employees inthe retirement group will remain in the Denver
Wilco International, a wholly owned subsidiary of ADP Inc announced an alliance with withholding tax software and services specialist GOAL (Global Operations and Administration Ltd). The alliance will extend the range of Wilco's corporate actions solutions by providing access to
EuroMTS is close to choosing between London Clearing House (LCH) and Clearnet as its Central Counter Party (CCP) service provider, and a decision is expected by Christmas. The Italian born fixed income trading platform has learnt the lesson of the