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  • Euroclear UK & Ireland Welcomes Rathbones To Automated Fund Settlement

    Date 14/07/2014

    Rathbone Brothers Plc. (Rathbones), a leading provider of investment management services to private clients, charities and investment advisors, has taken a major step in automating its fund settlement process by using Euroclear UK & Ireland’s (EUI) investment fund service, effective immediately. EUI is the sole processing provider to offer end-to-end services for the settlement of fund units and applicable cash movements to the entire Rathbones distributor community.

  • UK's Financial Conduct Authority: Payday Firm Dollar Agrees To Improve Lending Practices And Refund £700,000 To Its Customers

    Date 14/07/2014

    Following a review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), payday lender Dollar, trading as The Money Shop, has voluntarily agreed to refund over £700,000 of interest and default charges to 6,247 customers who, due to a systems error, received a loan amount which exceeded Dollar’s own lending criteria.  

  • Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor - Ensuring More Effective Data Protection In An Age Of Big Data

    Date 14/07/2014

    There is no doubt that current legal safeguards for privacy and personal data protection needto be reinforced in view of the challenges posed by technology and globalisation. The rapid growth of big data applications is one of the new phenomena, but certainly not the only relevant development. This is why we are now approaching the final phase of a wide ranging reform of the current EU legal framework for data protection. This will deliver stronger rights for data subjects, stronger responsibilities for data controllers, and stronger supervision andenforcement of data protection rules across the EU.

  • Alternative Assets Continue Their Inexorable Rise - Towers Watson Survey Shows Total Global Alternative Assets Under Management Hit $5.7 Trillion

    Date 14/07/2014

    Total assets managed by the Top 100 alternative investment managers globally reached $3.3 trillion in 2013 ($3.1 trillion in 2012), according to research produced by Towers Watson and published in conjunction with the Financial Times. The Global Alternatives Survey, which covers seven asset classes and seven investor types, shows that of the Top 100 alternative investment managers, real estate managers have the largest share of assets (31% and over $1 trillion), followed by private equity fund managers (23% and $753bn), hedge funds (22% and $724bn), private equity funds of funds (PEFoFs) (10% and $322bn), funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) (5% and $173bn), infrastructure (4%) and commodities (2%).

  • Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Appoints Stephan Wolf As CEO

    Date 14/07/2014

    The Directors of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) announce the appointment of Stephan Wolf as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the GLEIF. Wolf currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Member of the Executive Board, Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG.