TMF Custom House Global Fund Services, a leading provider of financial services to the alternative investment sector, has announced that it has been honored at the HFMWeek US  Fund Services Awards as Best Administrator – Managed Accounts.

The awards, presented in New York on October 23, bring together major hedge fund services providers to celebrate and reward those firms who have demonstrated excellence over the past 12 months. TMF Custom House was also shortlisted for:

McObject®, developer of innovative database system software, announced it has released version 6.0 of its eXtremeDB® In-Memory Database System (IMDS) and related product family. The upgrade adds support for distributed query processing, which improves database speed and scalability by leveraging the processing power, memory and bandwidth of multiple hardware nodes in carrying out queries.

McObject®, developer of innovative database system software, announced it has released version 6.0 of its eXtremeDB® In-Memory Database System (IMDS) and related product family. The upgrade adds support for distributed query processing, which improves database speed and scalability by leveraging the processing power, memory and bandwidth of multiple hardware nodes in carrying out queries.

BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, officially opened a new foreign exchange (FX) dealing room in Singapore.  The new FX trading desk will focus on primary G10 currencies in addition to Korean Won NDF.

Jim McEleney, chief operating officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa at BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, has been named in a list of the Top 100 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) business role models.

BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, has been appointed by Trustco Group Holdings Limited as depositary bank for its sponsored American depositary receipt (ADR) program. Each ADR represents 100 ordinary shares and trades on the OTC Market under the symbol "TSCHY." Trustco's ordinary shares trade on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange under the code "TTO" and on the Namibian Stock Exchange under the code "TUC."

 The Stock Exchange of Thailand is expanding the "Smart Listing" service to cover the subscription of new ordinary shares and warrants from October 27, 2014 in an effort to streamline the listing process to offer more investment opportunities to investors, with a plan to make the system completely available for all products by 2015.

Cinnober, the global provider of exchange and clearing technology, has signed an agreement with a marketplace regarding service delivery of turnkey solutions covering the marketplace’s full transaction cycle, including technology for trading, clearing and surveillance. The delivery will be supplied as a managed service and the customer has requested anonymityduring the pre-launch period.

Our follow up participants – University of Auckland, Financial Services Council, ANZ, ASB and Milford Asset Management – represent a cross section of KiwiSaver stakeholders (i.e. academia, industry bodies, default
providers and other providers). Each coming from a different perspective, they provide some interesting insights into the evolution of KiwiSaver.