Link Administration Holdings Limited, the Australian administrator, has received a conditional, nonbinding indicative proposal from a consortium including Pacific Equity Partners, Carlyle Group and their affiliates to acquire 100pct of the shares. The indicative cash price offered to shareholders under the proposal is AUD5.20 per share. Perpetual, which currently holds 9.65pct of Link Group, has…
Year: 2020
State Street & SimCorp to partner on EMEA insurance sector solutions
State Street and SimCorp, an investment management solutions and service provider, have announced their intention to form a business partnership to provide a fully integrated, front-to-back investment outsourcing solution for insurance firms in EMEA. EMEA-based insurance companies will have access to SimCorp Dimension’s cloud-based, multi-asset class capabilities, advanced accounting functionality and managed services, together with…
Apex to support Home REIT plc after IPO on LSE
Apex, the Bermuda-based financial services provider, it provided pre-IPO support to Home REIT plc ahead of its listing on the London Stock Exchange. Apex will continue to work with Home REIT to provide fund, financial and corporate solutions, including real estate fund administration and accounting, AIFMD depositary, corporate governance and company secretarial services.
Mainstream appoints CEOs in Ireland and Cayman
Mainstream Fund Services, an Australian administrator, has made two senior internal promotions within its Irish and Cayman operations following the retirement of John McCann, formerly CEO of Europe and Cayman. Barbara Purcell has been approved by the Central Bank of Ireland as the CEO of Mainstream Fund Services (Ireland) Limited, with responsibility for Mainstream’s Dublin…
Northern Trust wins GBP11bn Marks & Spencer pension fund
Northern Trust has been selected by Marks & Spencer Pension Trust (M&SPT) in the UK to provide a range of asset servicing solutions to the M&S Pension Scheme, a defined benefit pension scheme of which M&SPT is trustee. With GBP11bn of assets (USD14.3bn), the M&S Pension Scheme is one of the country’s 25 largest corporate…
Citi launches host-to-host link with Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corp.
Citi has launched a host-to-host connection with Taiwan Depository and Clearing Corporation which allows Citi to offer its clients near-real-time trade status and settlement confirmations for certain equity settlements, including securities borrowing and lending and ETF activities. Citi claims to be the first custodian bank in Taiwan to use host-to-host connectivity for intraday feeds and…
Broadridge appoints Vijay Mayadas as president of capital markets
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., the U.S.-based fintech provider, has appointed Vijay Mayadas as president of capital markets, a newly created position. He will lead Broadridge’s trade and post-trade capital markets SaaS solutions as part of the global technology and operations business. Capital markets solutions include global post-trade capabilities that support a broad spectrum of asset…
Ocorian takes three managers from Apex for APAC fund services
Ocorian, the C.I.-based administrator, has made three senior appointments to its global fund services team in Asia Pacific: Based in Singapore, Naveen Sivaambihaibalan joins the firm as head of fund services, APAC. He joins from Apex Fund Services where he was vice president, private equity and real estate operations. Cursley Legoff joins as a client…
Sanford C Bernstein consolidates European settlement with BP2S
Sanford C Bernstein Ltd, the broker/dealer subsidiary of Alliance Bernstein, has appointed BNP Paribas Securities Services to provide settlement services in Austria, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Euroclear Bank. This appointment follows Sanford C Bernstein’s decision to consolidate its providers in Europe and strengthens its relationship with BNP Paribas Securities Services, which already provides the broker/dealer…
Ultimus to support semi-transparent ETFs through series trusts
Ultimus, the U.S.-based administrator, is expanding its ETF service offering in its sponsored series trusts to include active licensing for semi-transparent ETFs. Ultimus has licensing agreements with NYSE and Blue Tractor in place.