RBC Global Services, Institutional & Investor Services (IIS) announced the appointment of Simon Coleman as Director of Operations in London, U.K. In his new role, Simon will oversee all aspects of global custody processing in more than 80 worldwide markets.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa ("the JSE") and GL TRADE announced that they have signed an agreement whereby GL TRADE will provide the JSE with its professional trading front end GL WIN for use on the JSE and the
The Bank of New York announced that Matthew W. McKean has joined the Bank as a vice president of private client services in New Jersey. Mr. McKean brings to the Bank over fifteen years of financial services experience. His primary
Radianz announced it has signed a three year multimillion dollar contract to provide Internet Protocol (IP) extranet services to Cognotec. Cognotec, a provider of foreign exchange and money market trading solutions, will use Radianz's global financial extranet, RadianzNet, to connect
The Bank of New York announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Core International ADR and Domestic Equity Index institutional investment management businesses of Axe Houghton Associates, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoenig Group Inc.
Computershare Ltd., the world's largest and only global transfer agent, and a leading service and technology provider for the global securities industry, announced that it has signed a strategic service agreement with Citibank Agency and Trust and is providing services
European and U.S. financial institutions hoping to unlock the potential for U.S. style revolving credit cards in Western Europe will continue to face significant cultural, legislative and technological challenges. New research from TowerGroup's Consumer Credit service finds that though Western
The Liberty Ermitage Group has appointed Mark Hucker as the Group Executive Director Infrastructure responsible for all aspects of operations, finance and compliance, reporting to Ron Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer. He joins from Perpetual where he was Finance Director and
The Benchmark(tm) Investment Analytics group (BIA) of RBC Global Services, Institutional & Investor Services (IIS), announced the release of a new and expanded suite of portfolio universes the Benchmark Universes which will enable institutional investors to better evaluate the performance
News that the Ottoman Bank merger with Garanti Bank, announced in mid October, is going ahead on 19 December will reduce competition for sub custody business in one of the two most closely watched emerging markets of recent times Turkey.