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NEWSLETTER | 18 Feb 2021

Investors pressure UK companies to comply with modern slavery laws

A GBP3.2 trillion investor coalition against modern slavery, including Aberdeen Standard Investments, Church of England Pensions Board, Legal & General and Rathbones, has put pressure on 22 laggard companies on the FTSE 350 to comply with the UK’s modern slavery laws.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Diginex Limited, a digital assets financial services company, and Itiviti, a global technology and service provider to financial institutions, have launched 'Access', a front-to-back trading, portfolio, and risk management solution that enables the trading of cryptocurrencies and crypto derivatives across several platforms.

Bitwise launches DeFi crypto index fund

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Bitwise Asset Management has launched the Bitwise DeFi Crypto Index Fund.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

State Street Corporation has launched Insights, a new research platform that offers clients proprietary research, exclusive data-driven indicators and the latest market commentary from the firm’s team of global macro strategists.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Refinitiv has launched MarketPsych ESG Analytics, a new analytics tool to provide numerical ESG insights on companies and countries based on news and social media monitoring.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

A new report, sponsored by Phoenix Group and published by the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), has found that when pension schemes design their approach to ESG, half of are finding either too much information or conflicting information to be a major challenge.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Moody’s Analytics today announced that HSBC will be extending its contract and expanding its use of the Moody’s Analytics PFaroe DB software, a risk analytics and reporting solution for the defined benefit (DB) pensions market.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Vanguard has launched a broad market international bond index fund, Vanguard Total International Bond II Index Fund, which provides international fixed income exposure for Vanguard Target Retirement Funds, Vanguard Target Retirement Trusts, and Vanguard LifeStrategy Funds. They will be the only investors in the new fund.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Manulife Investment Management, the global wealth and asset management division of Manulife Financial Corporation, has launched its Sustainable Asia Bond Fund in Europe.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Independent fund research company, Monterey Insight, has confirmed the Aztec Group as the leading fund administrator in the Channel Islands, with USD237.6 billion of assets under administration.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

StoneX Group's wholly owned subsidiary, StoneX Technology Services has introduced the StoneX Messaging Hub (XMH), an enterprise-grade technology solution that acts as a single gateway for standardising and automating both inbound and outbound flows of the financial documentation required as part of the daily operations for financial institutions and blue-chip corporates.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

MCA Finance has chosen the NeoXam's Nx Tracker3 technology to manage its Front and Middle Office activities. With this choice, MCA Finance obtains the most advanced standards in order placing automation via Fix and Swift standards.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

Mediolanum International Funds Limited (MIFL) has chosen PaSS – the buyside cloud-based managed service solution from Alveo – to automate data management and access to data for analytics.

Thu | 18 Feb 2021, 11:37

LiquidX, a global network for working capital, trade finance and insurance, has appointed Alex Bursak as Director and Regional Head of Insurance for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, based in Singapore.