State Street has struck a deal with RIMES, the U.S.-based data partner for asset managers, asset owners, and service providers, to enhance State Street Alpha, its front-to-back solution. Through this partnership, State Street Alpha clients will benefit from RIMES’ expertise and experience with the global index provider marketplace, leveraging its operational capabilities and infrastructure. This…
Year: 2021
Northern Trust partners with Snowflake
Northern Trust and Equity Data Science (EDS), in which Northern Trust has a strategic stake, have collaborated with Snowflake, the data cloud company, to enhance secure data sharing and onboarding for asset servicing clients using Northern’s Investment Data Science capabilities. Leveraging Snowflake’s data-sharing and cloud technology, Northern Trust and EDS can provide a better, faster…
Sanne hires new NA bus dev director
Sanne, the UK-listed administrator, has appointed Darrell Pisarra as director, business development – North America. Prior to joining Sanne he was at SS&C Technologies. Sanne recently lost Marta Ciemiega, a U.S. business development director, who moved to Crestbridge.
Apex gets green light for GIFT City
Apex has become one of the first global fund administrators to receive regulatory approval to operate in India’s Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) International Financial Centre. GIFT City is a planned IFSC which is being developed as a global financial and IT services hub, the first of its kind in India. With this latest…
Fred Perard joins SuisseTechPartners
Frédéric (Fred) Perard has joined SuisseTechPartners as head of Europe. STP is a fintech company providing front-, middle- and back-office solutions with a portfolio management system called PMplus. Perard left BNP Paribas Securities Services in 2020, where he was most recently head of Luxembourg and the international financial centres. He will remain in Luxembourg.
Nottingham completes three more ETF conversions
The Nottingham Company, a non-bank ETF fund administrator and consultant to the mutual fund and ETF industry, has completed the conversion of three new ETFs from open-end mutual funds. Each of the ETFs is part of the Adaptive ETF family of funds. Two additional conversions are expected in November. The New York Stock Exchange was…
BNY Mellon adds senior talent to global tax team
Liam Stanbridge has joined BNY Mellon as head of global tax. In this role, Stanbridge will focus on leading client servicing tax solutions for institutional clients and leading the transformation and digitisation of the bank’s tax services offering. He will partner closely with BNY Mellon’s new head of tax product development, Stuart Winny, who has…
JPMAM appoints JPM for MO
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,…
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…