Year: 2025

UC Investments, the investment arm of the University of California, and State Street have formed an initiative to give individuals access to institutional-grade investment tools and opportunities. The initiative will combine the latest investment technologies and artificial intelligence to give individuals direct access to a broader range of investment opportunities, including private markets. It also…

FundBank (Europe) S.A. is now live in Luxembourg, fully licensed by the European Central Bank and regulated by the CSSF. This authorisation as a full credit institution enables FundBank to serve clients across the European Union, delivering a compliant, cross-border banking infrastructure to the alternative investment fund (AIF) industry. FundBank supports the full lifecycle of…

Citco has expanded its private markets offering to include services for U.S. SEC registered entities accepting retail investors. Citco has appointed Chris Shaw to lead the retail alternatives division. He joins from SS&C where he played a key role in the creation of its retail alternatives transfer agency. The expansion will provide services including fund…

CACEIS Bank has been authorised by the ACPR, France’s banking and insurance regulator, following the advice of the AMF, France’s financial sector regulator, to provide crypto-asset services in accordance with the procedures laid out in Article 60 of MiCA, the European Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation. This is a major step in the roll-out of the…

Effective 1 January 2026, Claudine Gallagher, currently head human resources officer at BNP Paribas CIB Americas, and previously head of Americas for securities services, will be appointed as head of securities services globally. Patrick Colle will become executive chairman of securities services, in addition to his role as chairman of financial institutions coverage. Gallagher, who…

BNP Paribas has entered into an agreement with HSBC for the acquisition of the custody and depositary bank business of HSBC Continental Europe S.A., Germany, subject to regulatory approvals. As part of the agreement, the custody business staff employed at HSBC Continental Europe S.A., Germany will transfer to BNP Paribas’ securities services business in Germany.…

BNY has confirmed that WisdomTree, Inc. to provide custody, depositary, accounting, fund administration and ETF services for its Europe-listed products. WisdomTree Europe has AuM totaling USD40.1bn. BNY is expanding its relationship with WisdomTree as custodian, administrator, securities lending agent and ETF servicing provider across its U.S.-listed products, to now include capabilities which support its Irish-domiciled…

State Street has been appointed as fund administrator and transfer agent for the COtwo Advisors Physical European Carbon Allowance Trust (NYSE Arca: CTWO), the first US-listed exchange-traded product backed by physical European Union Allowances (EUAs). State Street will deliver ETF solutions, including fund accounting, administration, and transfer agency.

Northern Trust has been selected by Hong Kong-based asset managers Clean Alpha Partners and Keyrock Capital Management Limited to deliver Investment Data Science solutions through its strategic partnership with Equity Data Science (EDS). Under the mandates, Northern Trust will provide access to EDS’ Research Management System, a workflow solution that integrates real-time quantitative and qualitative…