Deutsche Börse Group said it is expanding its offering of supervisory board training with a “supervisory board audit committee specialist member/financial expert” exam.

Temenos said it appointed Martin Frick as Head of APAC as it targets more growth in the Asia-Pacific region.

SimCorp said Swisscanto, the fourth largest provider of investment funds in Switzerland with more than 40 billion euros of assets under management, selected SimCorp Dimension for in-house administration of its funds.

IntercontinentalExchange Group said ICE Clear Europe will introduce clearing for Western European Sovereign Credit Default Swaps on April 28, 2014, following receipt of regulatory approval.

Adam Cox reports

Earlier this week, we heard from several executives on ways to be innovative on the operational side. In the second of our two-part series, we hear from them again on transparency, measurement, organisational issues as well as what they’re working on right now.

SIA, in partnership with Colt, said it won the tender to connect Deutsche Bundesbank to TARGET2-Securities (T2S), the new centralised European platform for the settlement of domestic and cross-border securities transactions.

Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services launched a loan asset servicing offering, working with Markit to provide what it said was the first comprehensive service of its kind.

BNY Mellon said it has been appointed account bank and paying agent by Volkswagen Financial Services AG on a €3 billion asset-backed security (ABS) warehousing programme for auto leases.

Euroclear Bank announced two major initiatives, one in Asia and one in Latin America, as it sought to bolster its position in both regions. It launched a service with Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation and also teamed up with Panam's central securities depository to launch an international link.

Baringa Partners, a management consultancy specialising in the commodities, energy and financial services sectors, said Simon Anderson had been appointed as a partner in the Markets & Trading business unit.

Misys said it launched a new regulatory reporting service to help companies, fund managers and smaller banks meet their EMIR-specific reporting requirements.

UniCredit GSS said Russia's central bank is planning corporate action reforms aimed at decreasing costs for market participants, unifying processes and introducing electronic documentation.