US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is expected to discuss the possibility of tapering its mass asset-purchasing programme at a policy meeting today - London-based exchange-traded product provider Boost ETP has added Morgan Stanley to its list of authorised participants - Franklin Templeton has named Jill Barber as head of institutional for UK and Ireland as the firm looks to grow its institutional channel - Data provider Markit has acquired the assets of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) corporate actions data service after increasing customer demand for an outsourced service managing corporate actions - Societe Generale Securities Services will set up operations in Ghana in a bid to develop its custody services offering in sub-Saharan Africa - Mirabaud Asset Management has hired Axa Framlington’s Anu Narula as global head of its equities division - Lyxor Asset Management has teamed up with hedge fund firm TIG Advisors to launch the Lyxor / Tiedemann Arbitrage Strategy fund, a new UCITS vehicle focused on mergers and acquisitions - FTSE will introduce a new ‘food, agriculture and forestry’ sector to its range of environmental markets indices - European fixed income trading venue MTS is set to launch MTS Swaps, a new platform that will give buy-side institutions the ability to trade interest rate swaps electronically - NYSE Euronext's derivatives business has added Chinese broker Zhujiang International Futures as a member of its London derivatives market, NYSE Liffe - Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) is setting up in Tunisia in a bid to extend its custody operations on the African continent - BNY Mellon has extended its mandate with the US arm of ING Investment Management. The bank will now provide fund accounting and administration, custody, and transfer agency services for two savings plans - French asset manager Amundi plans to strengthen its relationships with external distributors by creating a dedicated global business line - Fitch Ratings has revised India's Outlook to Stable from Negative and affirmed its Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings at 'BBB- - UBS MTF dark pool, the multilateral trading facility of Swiss bank UBS, has joined TMX Atrium’s network - FTSE Group has opened a dedicated office in Dubai. The new unit, housed within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), has been set up to develop the index provider's presence in the Middle East and Africa -