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Verdict Staff

SS&C hires new senior director for advisory relationship management team

SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, has hired Chris Whiting as new senior director for its newly-formed advisory relationship management team.

TEMENOS COMMENT: Wealth management – where tech innovation adds value

If wealth managers want to retain clients and their top relationship managers they need to embrace digitisation and IT modernization, writes Pierre Bouquieaux, Product Director Wealth Management at Temenos

Meezan Bank inks MoU with LUMS to promote Islamic banking

Pakistan’s Islamic bank Meezan Bank has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to foster the learning and development of Islamic Banking and finance across the country.

Scotiabank names new chief economist

Scotiabank has named Jean-François Perrault as its new chief economist, replacing Warren Jestin – who will retire on 1 March 2016 after working with the bank for nearly four decades.

Quilter Cheviot names new head for Bristol office

Quilter Cheviot has appointed James Rodgers as new head for its Bristol office, replacing Pamela Reid who will assume a new role as director of services development.

Three critical shifts shaping the wealth management landscape: Barclays

CEO of Wealth and Investment Management at Barclays, Akshaya Bhargava, writes about three critical shifts that are occurring and fundamentally shaping the way private banks do business and the services that wealth managers provide in the future

Barclays to offload its risk analytics and index solutions unit to Bloomberg

Barclays has agreed to divest its benchmark indices and risk analytics business, Barclays Risk Analytics and Index Solutions (BRAIS), to Bloomberg for £520m.

TriState Capital to buy investment management firm The Killen Group

TriState Capital has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire The Killen Group (TKG), an investment management firm and the advisor to The Berwyn Funds.

Hong Kong watchdog penalizes JP Morgan $30m for regulatory breaches

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined three JP Morgan entities a sum of $30m for various regulatory breaches and/or internal control failings.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management forms strategic partnership with HazelTree

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has entered into a strategic partnership with HazelTree, a treasury management solution provider, to help hedge funds, fund administrators, managed account providers and family offices in improving their cash management.