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Waafi Bank selects The Bank of London as banking services provider
02 September 2024 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Waafi’s vision is to provide Muslims in the UK with access to financial solutions that align with their faith

Garland leaves SGCIB
02 September 2024 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Tom Garland spent six years at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking before departing from his role in securities finance and delta one sales

Brown departs Pirum
30 August 2024 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Scott Brown, previously head of origination sales EMEA, spent more than six years at the firm

MUFG Bank to commence power futures trade execution
30 August 2024 Japan
Reporter: Daniel Tison

By entering the power futures and spot markets, MUFG Bank aims to enhance price predictability and hedging functions in Japan’s power trading

Taskize hires Trueman as Business Development Manager
29 August 2024 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Miles Trueman will be responsible for helping to expand the client base, providing technical expertise, and implementing strategic initiatives

ISLA welcomes Standard Bank Group as new member
29 August 2024 South Africa
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The African bank will work alongside other ISLA EMEA members to support the development of securities financing markets across the continent

J.P. Morgan completes transition of Vision Super
29 August 2024 US, Australia
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The merger of Vision Super and Active Super will create a fund managing more than US$29 billion in assets and serving 170,000 member accounts, the firm says

HKMA introduces new project to accelerate tokenisation adoption
28 August 2024 Hong Kong
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Using experimental tokenised money, the Sandbox will enable experiments for both payment-versus-payment and delivery-versus-payment use cases

Lendable inventory tops US$40tn
28 August 2024 US
Reporter: Karl Loomes

According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, growth in asset valuations and new inventory from expanding client types helped push the figure to the highest on record

Investec launches new electronic equity trading desk
28 August 2024 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Dominic Lowres, hired alongside Matthew West, will head the desk providing clients access to a new, global electronic execution channel

SmartStream launches latest TLM Collateral Management solution
28 August 2024 UK
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

The company says the solution, which provides real-time access to data sources via versioned-APIs, aims to enhance decision-making and workflow automation for financial institutions

Freetrade launches securities lending service powered by Sharegain
27 August 2024 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The new service enables Freetrade’s clients to generate passive income from lending their stocks and ETFs