CaixaBank, Spain’s leading retail bank, has appointed Gabriela Martínez de Aragón as UK Country Manager. A seasoned finance professional, she brings with her extensive international banking experience as well as solid expertise in project and structured finance. 

The virtual showroom is a new way of showing and selling products and services to buyers and businesses, and while it comes from the world of B2C fashion, it’s promising to revolutionise B2B too. This is according to digital eCommerce solutions specialist, Kooomo, which has employed this modern technology to overcome the limitations of Coronavirus - which continues to impose itself on retail sales both on and offline.

The COVID pandemic has accelerated the shift of consumers away from branches into call centres and web/mobile channels to meet their banking needs. At the same time, in trying to keep their employees safe and enforce social distancing rules, banks have also had to convert a large percentage of their office staff to work from home. This sudden and unprecedented shift has created a huge burden on banks, with some reporting up to a 400% increase in call centre volumes and up to 2 hours waiting time for customers to talk to bank representatives.

OpenDoor Securities LLC (“OpenDoor”) has launched the first ‘all-to-all’ marketplace for on-the-run (“OTR”) U.S. Treasuries. The anonymous order book will be the first U.S. Treasury venue to offer non-discriminatory pricing in benchmarks regardless of an account’s designation. The roll-out is in direct response to voiced concerns regarding the negative impact of information arbitrage as well as the dearth of liquidity experienced during times of stress on traditional trading venues.

TrackInsight (www.trackinsight.com), the leading global independent ETF analytics platform, has named Nasdaq its exclusive distributor for North America.

Equiniti, the international technology-led services and payments specialist, is delighted to announce that it is becoming EQ.

EQ provides accessible digital services for regulated markets. It specialises in equity and investment products, pensions, payments and regtech, and performs administration and payment services for c.70 of the FTSE 100.

The new label, EQ, aligns the company’s branding with its three core divisions: EQ Paymaster, EQ Boardroom, and EQ Digital; alongside the US division, EQ U.S.