Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) says it has launched a new technology for organizing shareholder meetings that includes informing about shareholder meetings and e-proxy voting. 

Russia's central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository (NSD), says it has launched a website dedicated to corporate action reform.

Financial software specialist T-Scape Ltd reports the official launch of iActs, a native web application designed to provide increased levels of automation to front- and back-office processes. 

Russia's NSD had a bumper time in the fourth quarter of last year, if its figures are to be believed. 

State Street's fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 results reflect strength across its asset servicing and asset management businesses, says Joseph L Hooley, its chairman and chief executive officer.

Poland's KDPW Group has delivered an extensive summary of what it achieved in 2014 and a briefer précis of what lies in store in this new year.

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and GoldenSource, an independent provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions for the securities and investment industry, reportthe successful rebuilding of ASX’s core back office systems.

National Settlement Depository has initiated a program of corporate actions reform in the Russian market with the support of the regulator, issuers, registrars and clients. 

SunGard has launched two new corporate actions products to help global financial institutions manage global event data and identify and control their risk exposure.

Sparinvest has selected SunGard’s XSPrisa to automate its global corporate actions processing. The solution will help Sparinvest eliminate the traditional manual processing and risk associated with corporate actions.

BNP Paribas Securities Services has announced two senior appointments to its management team in Asia Pacific, highlighting the strong momentum of the bank in the region.

BNY Mellon has been appointed by Marble House Capital to provide custody services and related control functions to a range of portfolio funds and future retail alternative investment funds (AIFs) and special AIFs.

SimCorp has announced that Mizuho Trust & Banking (Luxembourg) S.A. has chosen SimCorp Dimension as its new integrated software solution.

Widely recognized industry expert joins Celent's Securities & Investments Practice.

Celent announced that Jay Wolstenholme has joined its Securities and Investments Practice as a Senior Analyst.

BNY Mellon said it was appointed indenture trustee, reinsurance trustee, registrar and paying agent for the $450 million Kilimanjaro catastrophe (CAT) bond transaction sponsored by Everest Re.

ISITC said it wanted to focus on education and collaboration around important regulatory changes this year as it released an annual report that highlighted a number of achievements.

The National Settlement Depository, the central securities depository of Russia, said Alexander Nazarov, head of Global Securities Services, will chair a new committee focused on draft laws and regulation regarding corporate action reform.

ISS Editor Adam Cox reports.

New services and ventures for improved collateral management have been coming thick and fast of late, with the latest being the introduction of a client protection model that goes above and beyond what EMIR calls for.

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Northern Trust named William Mak head of the Asia-Pacific region, succeeding Teresa A. Parker, who will take on a strategic role at the company’s headquarters in Chicago.

ISS Editor Adam Cox reports

A planned joint venture between heavyweights Euroclear and DTCC and a separate agreement between BNP Paribas Securities Services and Euroclear underline the degree to which collateral management is becoming a dominant theme for the industry as new rules kick in.