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Confluence Names Industry Veteran Domenic Ionadi As Vice President, North America Business Development, Overseeing Sales And Global Strategic Accounts

Date 15/01/2019

Confluence, the global leader in investment data management automation for regulatory, financial and investor reporting, today announced that Domenic Ionadi has been promoted to Vice President, North America Business Development. In this role he will be overseeing all North American business development functions and will work closely with Hugh Byrne, Managing Director EMEA, to further align global strategic direction. Ionadi will oversee the creation and execution of strategy for growing Confluence’s North American footprint and will work closely with key senior stakeholders within Confluence’s Global Third-Party Administrators and Asset Servicer clients.

LiquidityBook Completes Banner Year With Continued Surge In Client Wins, Platform Growth

Date 15/01/2019

LiquidityBook, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, today announced that 2018 was a record year across multiple sales and client growth metrics tracked by the firm. This rapid growth was fueled by a continued rise in demand for its industry-leading POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) platform, which provides significant cost, management and functionality benefits versus the legacy platforms many investment managers currently employ.

Solactive Global Gold Giants Index Launched As Underlying For New Harvest Portfolios Group ETF

Date 15/01/2019

Solactive is pleased to announce the launch of the Solactive Global Gold Giants Index, which will be used as the underlying of Harvest Portfolios Group Inc.’s Harvest Global Gold Giants Index ETF (TSX: HGGG). The Index intends to track the price movements of the 20 largest gold mining companies by company market capitalization listed on a regulated stock exchange in North America, Australia or in certain European countries.

AxiomSL Appoints David Weber As Chief Operating Officer And Chief Financial Officer In Response To Rapid Global Growth - Company Promotes Eyal Amsalem To Chief Administrative Officer

Date 15/01/2019

AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management solutions, today announced the appointment of David Weber as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer and the appointment of Eyal Amsalem as Chief Administrative Officer.

ICJ And Broadridge Execute The First Blockchain-Based Interoperable Proxy Voting Process In Japan - ICJ And Broadridge Collaborated To Design And Execute A Blockchain-Based Proxy Voting Process For The Japanese Market, With A Pilot Mirroring The Reconciliation And Vote Delivery Process Using DLT

Date 15/01/2019

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), an S&P 500 company and global Fintech leader, and ICJ Inc., a joint venture of Broadridge and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE), have successfully conducted the first Proof of Concept (PoC) of blockchain-based proxy voting in Japan, using Quorum as the underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Nasdaq Dubai Launches Futures Trading On MSCI’s Index Of UAE Equities In Latest Market Expansion - International And Regional Investors Can Use The Futures To Gain Exposure To UAE Market

Date 15/01/2019

Nasdaq Dubai today launched futures trading on the MSCI United Arab Emirates (UAE) equity index, in the latest expansion of the exchange’s futures market. The contracts are designed to appeal to international and regional investors seeking exposure to leading UAE companies.

Bank Leumi (UK) Selects Volante Technologies’ VolPay Open Banking PSD2 Solution - Benefiting From Volante’s One-Stop-Shop For PSD2 Compliance And Open Banking

Date 15/01/2019

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing and financial message integration, today announced that Bank Leumi (UK) has selected VolPay Open Banking to implement PSD2 compliance and enable open banking business models.  

Quest Partners Selects QuantHouse For Global Quantitative Trading Solutions - Providing A One-Stop Solution For Global Automated And Systematic Trading

Date 15/01/2019

QuantHouse, the independent global provider of high performance systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo development tools and global network infrastructure, today announced it has been selected by Quest Partners LLC (“Quest”) to support the diverse needs of their automated traders.

Lyxor Lists Green Bond ETF On Nasdaq Stockholm

Date 15/01/2019

• Lyxor expands Nordic presence with its first listing on Nasdaq's Nordic exchanges
• Lyxor Green Bond UCITS ETF tracks an index of green bonds approved by the Climate Bonds Initiative 
• Available for trading today

Securities And Futures Commission (SFC) And The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financie Sign MoU On Luxembourg-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition Of Funds

Date 15/01/2019

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF), which will allow eligible Hong Kong public funds and Luxembourg UCITS funds to be distributed in each other’s market through a streamlined process.