State Street has been appointed as the ETF servicing agent for Water Island Capital’s first ETF, the AltShares Merger Arbitrage ETF, tracking the Water Island Merger Arbitrage USD Hedged Index. State Street will provide services including basket creation, settlement, custody, fund accounting, electronic order-taking, financial reporting, and transfer agency. State Street has worked with WIC…
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Centaur hires Jon Summers to head product in U.S.
Centaur Fund Services, the Ireland-based provider of services to the alternative fund industry, has expanded its U.S. management team with the addition of Jon Summers, who will take on the role of head of product for Centaur Fund Services U.S. Currently based in New Jersey, Summers has over 15 years’ experience in the fund administration…
BP2S promotes two managers for UK&ME O&T roles
Following the appointment of Simon Olenka as head of UK and the Middle East, BNP Paribas Securities Services has made two senior appointments. Mark Daisley is promoted to the role of head of client delivery for the UK, Middle East and ChanneI Islands. He joined BP2S in 2008. Alexandra Derrien is appointed head of IT…
Dougherty Mortgage selects SS&C for loan admin
Dougherty Mortgage LLC, a Minneapolis-based full-service mortgage banking firm, has selected SS&C as a technology and services partner. SS&C will provide cloud-based software and services for loan origination, servicing, asset management, investor reporting, insurance compliance and document management.
JTC to provide fund services for Ashburton Investments
Ashburton Investments, the C.I.-based asset management business of FirstRand Group, has appointed JTC to administer fund shareholder accounts. JTC will provide fund administration and fund accounting services to Ashburton Investments’ investors in its Jersey-domiciled funds. JTC, which recently moved into the U.S. market with the acquisition of NES Financial, has USD130bn AuA.
Northern Trust launches cloud-based version of Online Report Center
Northern Trust has launched a new version of its most popular client-facing tool, Online Report Center, as a cloud-based service with a redesigned user interface, available through its Passport client portal. New features include: Enhanced scheduling and interactive reporting and report packaging capabilities; Event-based and time-based report generation triggers; and Secure email attachments, email notifications,…
Citi spins off Proxymity into industry-owned utility
Proxymity, the digital investor communications platform developed within Citi‘s investor services business, has raised USD20.5m from eight market participants and will become a global, industry-led consortium. The consortium is comprised of BNY Mellon, Citi, Clearstream, Computershare, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and State Street. The Proxymity team will be based in London, with a technology…
Intertrust selects Wall Street Office for loan administration
Intertrust, the Netherlands-based provider of administration and corporate services, has automated its loan administration, cash management and facility agent services by integrating its platform with IHS Markit’s Wall Street Office (WSO). The WSO platform is a scalable, cloud-based solution that will enable Intertrust to provide its fund and capital markets clients with a more efficient…
CACEIS completes remote migration of Popular funds in Spain
CACEIS in Spain has remotely migrated the Popular Asset Management and Popular Pensiones portfolios. Popular Asset Management and Popular Pensiones, two companies merging with Santander Asset Management and Santander Pensiones, switched to CACEIS as their depositary bank in Spain. With all staff working remotely, 107 funds were migrated to CACEIS, (59 investment funds and 48…
Ultimus upgrades distribution platform to include ETF data
Ultimus Fund Solutions, the U.S.-based fund servicing provider, has expanded its Ultimus Distribution Advantage (UDA) program to include platform information for ETFs. Ultimus is introducing the addition of intermediary fee structures and requirements for ETFs by incorporating the details to the intermediary pricing pages already established for ‘40 Act funds on the UDA website. The…