AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed a portfolio manager to serve on the firm’s equity technology team.

The European Commission has put forward measures to make EU clearing services more attractive to further develop the EU's Capital Markets Union (CMU).

EU member state regulators are being urged to improve their standards by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), with several firms moving to the Bloc found to have “limited technical and human resources in the EU”.