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[ P E O P L E O N T H E M O V E | N E W S R O U N D - U P ] PEOPLE ON THE MOVE ˜ ˜ Deutsche Bank has appointed its head of global transaction banking (GTB) for Ireland as its new global head of securities services, relocat- ing the role from London to Dublin. Fiona Gallagher will take on the position with immediate effect and will continue as chief country officer for Ireland. ˜ ˜ Graham Ray has stepped down from his new role as EMEA head of securities services for Deutsche Bank just a month after receiving the promotion, Global Custodian understands. Ray has worked within securities services at the German bank for over a decade, and was involved in a management shake-up in May. ˜ ˜ BNP Paribas Securities Services has hired Deutsche Bank’s former global head of investor services sales in a newly created regional role. Stanislas Beneteau joined the French bank as regional head of the financial intermediaries and corporates clients (FI&C) line for the UK, Middle East and South Africa (MESA). ˜ ˜ One of Standard Chartered’s most senior North Asian securities services experts, Barnaby Nelson, is set to de- part by the end of June. Nelson, who led the securities services business for North Asia and Greater China, will leave to pursue opportunities outside of banking. ˜ ˜ Citi has moved its head of rates sales for Europe to North America to lead its prime, futures and securi- ties service (PFSS) business for the region. Cedric Pauwels takes on the role after leading European sales for 10 Global Custodian Summer 2018 NEWS ROUND-UP G10 rates, credit and SGM for over eight years. ˜ ˜ Apex Fund Services has hired Richard Dinn as global head of custody and depositary sales, with a focus on leading the unit following its recent takeovers. Dinn will be re- sponsible for expanding Apex Group’s presence in the custody and deposi- tary market on a global scale. ˜ ˜ MUFG Investor Services has made several leadership changes following the appointment of a new interim chief executive officer (CEO). Eiji Ihori will take on the role from 1 July, re- placing Mark Porter who is stepping into an advisory role as a non-exec- utive director. John Sergides, global head of sales will become deputy CEO and Mac Kirschner, global head of relationship management, will assume the role of chief operating officer (COO). ˜ ˜ Northern Trust has appointed former BNY Mellon managing director David Kim as head of sales for the corporate and institutional business across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Kim will lead a team of sales managers across the region to continue growth in asset servicing sales to intuitional investors and investment manage rs. ˜ ˜ A former Deutsche Bank board member will join Deutsche Boerse’s executive board to oversee its post-trade business, Clearstream. Stephan Leithner, currently a partner for Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners, will join the committee in July where he will be responsible for all post-trade businesses, as well as the data and index business. ˜ ˜ CACEIS Bank has become a direct participant of the pan-European harmonised settlement platform TAR- GET2 Securities (T2S) through Italy’s central securities depository (CSD) Monte Titoli. Directly Connected Partic- ipant (DCP) status enables a single connection directly to the T2S system as authorisied by a CSD or central bank. ˜ ˜ HSBC could spend up to $17 billion over the next two years on investments in new technologies, according to the bank’s latest strategy update. Chief executive, John Flint, laid out the plans as part of the company’s new strategy from now until 2020, with priorities including expanding the business in Asia and increasing network and digital capabilities. ˜ ˜ Apex has agreed to takeover private equity admin- istrator and depositary Ipes in a deal that will propel it becoming the world’s fifth largest fund administrator. The deal will add $165 billion in assets under administra- tion to Apex’s portfolio, while taking on 195 new clients and 265 staff across five European offices. ˜ ˜ DTCC has connected its global trade repository to se- curities financing data firms EquiLend, Trax, IHS Markit and Pirum to ease the process for incoming reporting requirements. Through the collaboration, DTCC will be able to offer straight through processing and offer links to mutual clients’ existing technology for a Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) reporting solution. ˜ ˜ BNY Mellon and Deutsche Bank have integrated chatbots built on the Symphony messaging platform, which will be rolled out for trading securities on the Hong Kong exchange. Using the new chatbots, trade settle- ment status queries for the Hong Kong market will be available to both banks using Symphony. ˜ ˜ BNP Paribas Securities Services has gone live with an inventory management solution designed to automate the transfer of securities between different markets. Using active forecast and position manage- ment technologies, the new service ensures securities purchased by the custodian’s asset manager and asset owner clients are automatically moved at the end of every day to their domestic market.