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NEWSLETTER | 18 Nov 2020

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Invesco has launched Invesco ESGintel, an ESG ratings and insights tool focused on the issues that matter most for sustainable value creation and risk management.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

eVestment, a specialist in institutional investment data and analytics, has become the first institutional investment platform to offer access to the Alpha Nasdaq OCIO Indices.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

CME Group has begun daily publication of a suite of new implied volatility benchmark indexes based on its proprietary CME Group Volatility Index (CVOL) methodology.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Invesco has launched the Invesco Global Thematic Innovation Equity Fund, a Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV which is available to both retail and institutional investors in the UK and across Europe, managed by Martin Kolrep and Georg Elsaesser in Frankfurt.

DMA implements SteelEye for MiFIR reporting, trade surveillance and best execution

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has been selected by authorised Financial Services Provider, SCM DMA (DMA) for MiFIR reporting, trade surveillance and best execution.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Brown Advisory is to launch the BA Beutel Goodman US Value Fund, a new Dublin-UCITS Fund which will be sub-advised by Beutel, Goodman & Company Ltd, a Toronto-based investment manager with over USD28.6 billion in assets under management.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

VERMEG, a banking and insurance software solutions provider, has launched Colline.Cloud, an end-to-end collateral management service, aimed at smaller buy and sell-side firms.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

The Pensions Scams Industry Group (PSIG), which was established in 2014 to help protect pension scheme members from scams, has welcomed the Local Pension Partnership Administration Ltd (LPPA) as the first organisation to join its Pension Scams Industry Forum (PSIF).

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

State Street Corporation has extended its eight-year collateral services relationship with Union Investment - Group, the fund management company of the German cooperative finance network, for an additional five years, including the option for further extension.

GAM Emerging Market Equity team appoints Lynn Xing

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

ynn Xing has joined the GAM emerging market equity team based in Hong Kong. Xing joins from Bank of China where she was an investment manager in the private equity group managing both private and public investments.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

London-based regulatory compliance firm eflow is working with Refinitiv to further improve the existing market data store currently used in eflow’s trade surveillance platform TZ.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

With the ongoing pandemic, how people currently work and live has changed dramatically and therefore so has their carbon footprint. Whilst the emissions from offices and, more importantly, business travel have reduced, the majority of people are now working from home and creating emissions from increased energy use there.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

SEI has appointed Wasil Mohar, FIA, as a Client Strategy Director for the firm's UK Institutional Group. Mohar will be responsible for formulating and providing investment advice to institutional investors and managing day-to-day relationships with clients.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

ICON, one of the world’s largest decentralised networks, has signed a long-term deal with Band Protocol to support data-driven DApp development on its blockchain.

Telos partners with pNetwork to bring liquidity to its DeFi ecosystem

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Telos, one of the most active blockchain platforms in the world, has partnered with pNetwork to bring liquidity to its DeFi ecosystem.

Deutsche Börse acquires ISS

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Deutsche Börse AG is to acquire a majority (80 per cent) holding in Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) in a deal that values the whole business at USD2,275 million (EUR1,925 million).

BCLP adds litigation partner

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has appointed established first-chair litigator Lori Van Auken as a partner. She will be resident in the firm’s New York office.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

iM Global Partner's OYSTER Sustainable Europe fund has obtained the SRI Label.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Thirty two IM Phase 5 firms have successfully joined AcadiaSoft and TriOptima's IM Phase 5 soft launch initiative and more than 25 additional firms are scheduled to join before the end of 2020.

Fidelity expands sustainable and thematic offering

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Fidelity International (Fidelity) is further expanding its Sustainable Family of Funds with the launch of three Luxembourg-domiciled regional focussed portfolios: Fidelity Funds – Sustainable Asia Equity Fund, Fidelity Funds – Sustainable European Smaller Companies Fund and the Fidelity Funds – Sustainable Japan Equity Fund.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Solaris Digital Assets, a subsidiary of European banking-as-a-service platform Solarisbank, has become a client of digital asset security specialist Curv.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

Imagine Software, a leader in cloud-based portfolio, risk and margin solutions for capital markets, has expanded its native asset-class coverage to meet the needs of firms issuing and trading structured products.

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

The new Piquemal Houghton fund, a new Luxembourg domiciled UCITS fund, has been approved by the CSSF and will be managed by Piquemal Houghton Investments, a Paris based asset manager registered with the AMF.

TISE appoints Chair of regulatory arm

Wed | 18 Nov 2020, 12:10

The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has appointed Robert Trefny as the new Chair of its regulatory arm, The International Stock Exchange Authority Limited (TISEA).