Singapore

The business will offer a suite of services for clients including customised trading solutions, research and analysis, account management and access to global markets

UOB is the first Southeast Asian bank to join ForexClear as a direct member, and is the final Singapore local banking group to join as a direct member of SwapClear

The Singapore-based banking and financial services conglomerate has joined LCH’s interest rate swap clearing service as a direct clearing member

Olivia Wong, former director at Scotiabank, joins Wematch.live as head of APAC securities finance where she will strive to drive growth in the region

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has been working in partnership with industry firms through its Project Guardian initiative to test the viability of asset tokenisation and decentralised finance in financial services

Global capital markets technology firm Delta Capita has appointed Julian Chesser as regional head of APAC

This collaboration will reinforce Matrixport’s prime brokerage solution by enabling institutional customers to keep their assets within Copper infrastructure while being able to trade on ClearLoop-linked exchanges via their Matrixport sub-accounts

Mostapha Tahiri, Asia Pacific CEO at State Street, will take on additional responsibilities as head of the Middle East, where he will focus on all business activities for both regions