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Managers are still learning the ropes.

Be a fly on the wall for a discussion amongst US policy makers. Any resemblance to people living or dead is purely deliberate. Be duly frightened!

ETF Securities will add to its exchange traded commodities platform with the introduction of 33 Short ETCs and 33 Leveraged ETCs.

Unprecedented co-operation between European banks has, at last, created a single euro payments area. It will transform the cash management business and possibly the whole banking industry. Laurence Neville reports.

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Cash management: The Sepa revolution quietly creeps in

This week the Euro Single Payments Area finally comes into force. It promises to change forever the way banks in Europe are able to do business.

But many people are still not sure what changes Sepa brings.

Over the past year and more, subscribers to Euromoney have been able to keep ahead of the game with our regular features and dicsussions.

Managed Portfolio Advisors is looking to new channels for its unified managed account offerings and has created a new management position to oversee the task. The firm is focusing on registered investment advisors, banks, trusts and small institutions. “People are realizing that UMAs make sense for a lot of clients and work in spaces other than retail,” said Curt Overway, president. John Bearce has been promoted to senior v.p. of business development and will focus on forming new overlay relationships in those channels. Managed Portfolio Advisors is in talks with a firm in the RIA channel and will place 15 new strategies with the firm in about a month, said Overway. He did not name the firm.

Cash management: The Sepa revolution quietly creeps in

Ed Blair, the former chief dealer of high-frequency trading at Bank of America (BoA), has resurfaced at hedge fund Komodo Capital Management based in Singapore. The fund he will work on currently has nine members of staff, including Elia Alfay, who previously worked for Blair at BoA Singapore. The new team will roll out its trading program soon.

As you read this, I’ll be on my way to France for a ski weekend with a couple of colleagues from Euromoney – Alex Chambers and Jethro Wookey – plus the legendary Ron Smith-Galer, the man behind the revolutionary YoursMineShag spot platform.

Hats off to RBS, which sent its clients a link to this year’s FX poll bang on 5pm last Friday. However, I have to report that while the bank is clearly keen, one of its rivals managed to get clients voting before the poll went live. This raised the ire of Euromoney’s poll head honcho, Andrew Newby.