Volante Technologies, a specialists in cloud payments and financial messaging, and Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (Citi) are deepening their longstanding relationship to accelerate the bank’s adoption of the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard across its global payments operations. 

ATP, Denmark’s largest public pension fund, has gone live on SimCorp's SFTR solution. ATP’s go-live coincides with the reporting start date for the third phase of SFTR, on 11 January, where it joins several SimCorp clients who have smoothly transitioned to the cloud-based regulatory reporting platform, and successfully automated reporting to their chosen Trade Repository. 

Eurozone and Japanese equities are the least expensive globally and are likely to see the biggest earnings rebounds in 2021, according to NN Investment Partners (NN IP) in its 2021 Outlook.

Following news last Summer that 90 per cent of active fund managers operating in the China A shares market tend to outperform their chosen index, the International Advisory Board for Fund Selection (IAB), has undertaken further study which broadly confirms their original work.

The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have launched sector-specific guidance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures for sub-investment grade corporate borrowers. 

Cobalt, a foreign-exchange (FX) and digital asset infrastructure provider, has partnered with Baton Systems, a provider of post-trade solutions for capital markets. 

Asset Intelligence Portfolio Management (AIPM), a Midlands based discretionary fund manager, has launched two new investment funds – The VT Asset Intelligence Growth Fund; and the The VT Asset Intelligence Defensive Fund.

ACA Compliance Group has launched a specialist global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) advisory practice. 

Moonstake has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based RockX to support the Polkadot ecosystem. 

As warnings intensify about the need for regulation of digital assets across the UK and Europe, Gibraltar is adding to its already regulated digital ledger technology (DLT) framework with the development of a ‘10th Core Principle’, specifically for digital asset exchanges.