J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM), which has USD2.6trn AuM, has selected J.P. Morgan’s securities services division, part of the corporate & investment bank, to support a new global operations model using its investment middle office services capabilities. JPMAM is commencing a multi-year initiative to implement this model, which includes the provision of middle office services,…
Month: November 2021
IQ-EQ acquires Greyline Partners
IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based investor services provider, has acquired Greyline Partners, LLC, a U.S. provider of governance and regulatory compliance solutions for private capital, hedge funds and investors. Founded in 2016, Greyline has 56 people across its six offices located in San Francisco, Dallas, New York, Chicago, Boston and London. Also part of Greyline is GCM…
State Street to support new VanEck Bitcoin ETF
VanEck, the U.S.-based manager with USD82.2bn AuM, has announced the imminent launch of its VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF (XBTF), an actively managed ETF that seeks capital appreciation by investing in standardised, cash-settled bitcoin futures contracts. XBTF is expected to list on Cboe on November 16, 2021. XBTF is the first ETF in VanEck’s suite of…
Confluence strikes deal with FundHero
Confluence, a U.S.-based fintech provider helping the investment management industry solve complex investment data challenges, has secured a multi-year agreement with FundHero S.A., a Luxembourg-based fund service company, that will combine Confluence’s cloud-based Revolution platform with its own technology to provide clients with an exclusive managed software offering. FundHero uses technology and expertise to support…
BNY Mellon adds MSCI ESG ratings to collateral management
Collateral management clients using BNY Mellon‘s electronic collateral schedule manager, RULE, now have the capability to digitally express their ESG preferences by leveraging ESG ratings and indexes. The firm’s U.S. clients are able to take advantage of these same ESG eligibility capabilities by updating their schedules using current U.S. methodology. The functionality draws on MSCI…
Clearwater hires new head of private assets
Clearwater Analytics, a U.S.-based provider of SaaS-based investment accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has appointed Jonathan Flitt as global head of private assets. In this capacity, he leads product management, strategy, and execution to deliver platform capabilities and solutions that provide total portfolio transparency for the private markets space. Flitt joins from BNY Mellon, where…
SEI acquires Novus Partners
SEI has acquired Novus Partners, a global portfolio intelligence platform company. Novus’ platform streamlines data management, performance measurement, reporting, attribution and look-through analysis in a single digital tool. Founded in 2007, Novus works with more than 140 clients who collectively manage over USD4trn in assets. Following the acquisition, operations will continue in all four of…
IQ-EQ hires new group COO
Joanna Macleod has joined IQ-EQ as group chief operating officer. She was previously at American Express.
Crestbridge appoints new business development director for U.S.
Crestbridge, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed Marta Ciemiega as business development director in the U.S. She was most recently a director of business development at Sanne Group.
Northern Trust deploys ML to research for asset allocators
Northern Trust has launched a feature within its Front Office Solutions business that uses machine learning to help asset allocators gain better control of their research process. The new feature leverages knowledge of a user’s past behaviour to tag research management documents with intelligently suggested attributes before uploading them to the Front Office Solutions platform.…