SER group Holding International GmbH (SER Group) is pleased to announce that Sven Behrendt, previously Chief Operating Officer and member of the Management Board, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and thereby Chairman of the Management Board of the SER Group, effective May 1, 2021. He succeeds Kurt-Werner Sikora, who will focus exclusively on his work on the Advisory Board of the SER Group. Furthermore, Dr. John Bates has been appointed Executive Chairman of the Advisory Board of the SER Group as of May 1, 2021.

Following accreditation by the British Business Bank, Atom has today started to offer quotes on its award winning secured lending products under the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS). Having been one of the leading providers of broker-led secured lending to new and existing customers under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), Atom’s accreditation for RLS confirms the bank’s continuing support for businesses across the UK.

ITI Capital, an emerging markets-focused brokerage firm, today announces that it has successfully onboarded over 5,000 former SVS Securities clients onto its state-of-the-art trading platform.

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has appointed Viktor Zhidkov as Chairman of the Executive Board. Mr. Zhidkov's candidacy has been approved by the Bank of Russia and by NSD’s Supervisory Board.

NSD headed by the new Executive Board Chairman will continue to implement its development strategy until 2024: developing its core depository business and additional innovative products for Moscow Exchange Group clients focusing on reliability, effectiveness, and business growth.

OMERS Private Equity and Alberta Investment Management Corporation, on behalf of certain of its clients (“AIMCo”), today announced that they have signed an agreement to sell their majority stake in Environmental Resources Management (“ERM,” or “the Company”) to KKR.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading financial institution, has partnered with FIS, a leading global provider of technology solutions, to modernize its digital payment services and to provide instant payment to its customers.

Kidbrooke, a leading provider of financial analytics APIs, confirmed today that they are making their range of holistic financial planning and analytics solutions available to additiv customers on both their Software-as-a-Service and Embedded Finance models. 

 Leading issuer processor, Global Processing Services (GPS), announces that it has wrapped up its 2020 awards season with a 12^th major award win in 12 months, scooping the highly coveted title of Best Processing Programme at the recent Card and Payments Awards.