Year: 2021

The National Pension Service of Korea, the world’s third largest pension fund, has renewed its service agreement with State Street, which will continue to provide back-office and middle-office services for the NPS’ global equity and alternatives portfolios which have KRW222trn (USD195bn) and KRW49trn (USD43bn) AuM respectively. State Street has been providing custody, fund accounting, performance…

Covario, an independent prime broker for digital asset managers based in Switzerland, has selected METACO Harmonize as its digital asset orchestration engine. Harmonize acts as the overarching policy layer to ensure oversight and management of Covario’s operations, coupled with a single point of integration for its various internal systems. Covario offers trade execution services including…

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Foreside Financial Group, LLC from Lovell Minnick Partners. Foreside provides distribution, governance, risk management and compliance solutions to clients in the global asset and wealth management industries. Genstar is the majority owner of Apex Group.

BNY Mellon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Milestone Group, a U.S.-based provider of fund management technology, including the widely adopted pControl platform. The deal comes just over a year after the two companies formed an alliance to create a suite of oversight and contingent NAV services for asset managers and owners seeking…

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Paul Daly as head of distribution products and solutions. Daly will be responsible for developing and promoting fund distribution products for institutional fund buyers and fund promoters. He will also drive the development of BP2S’s transfer agency solutions. He was previously head of territory for Ireland at BP2S. Based…

Nottingham, a U.S.-based administrator, has hired a team of three senior managers from M3Sixty. Brandon Byrd joins Nottingham as lead executive officer for both transfer agency and fund distribution services. Ted Akins will join Byrd in the transfer agent and distributor operations as director of operations for Nottingham Shareholder Services, LLC. Loretta Akins will fill…