Month: February 2020

9 October 2019: Nothing sums up the transformation that Charlie Scharf started at BNY Mellon better than a scathing indictment of the bank’s previous digital strategy from Roman Regelman, hired by Scharf in 2018 to spearhead the digital drive. Regelman said in September: “I’ve seen banks that tout what I call the Silicon Valley model.…

18FEB20: Northern Trust has been appointed by the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund to provide its Integrated Trading Solutions package, including outsourced trading and middle office functionality, for a domestic equity portfolio managed internally by IMRF, the state’s second-largest public retirement plan. Northern Trust and IMRF have a more than 30-year relationship. Northern Trust provides global…

HSBC Securities Services has enhanced its global middle office infrastructure and services to support asset manager middle office mandates, especially in Asia where it reports significant growth. The improvements cover trade management and settlement control services, as well as introducing a significantly enhanced investment book of record (IBOR) reporting capability. This is driven by a…

Proxymity, Citi’s end-to-end proxy voting platform that directly connects the issuer and investor, has been rolled out in Australia. In collaboration with Computershare, Proxymity was deployed for 561 Australian shareholder meetings with votes covering AUSD86bn (USD58bn) of shares. The platform recorded vote transmission times of as low as 27.5 seconds for European investors that voted…

Crestbridge, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed William Turner as a director in its real estate services team. Based in Jersey, he will have responsibility for several key client relationships, reporting directly to the Jersey head of the real estate team, Erin Moffat. Turner moves to Crestbridge from Intertrust, where most recently he was a client…

Intertrust, the Netherlands-based fund and corporate services provider, has opened an office in Auckland, New Zealand, appointing David Ritchie as country director. Corporate secretarial and funds support teams for New Zealand clients will initially be based out of Sydney as Ritchie builds the team locally. Ritchie has over 15 years’ experience working in investment banking,…