CIBC Mellon has been selected to provide asset servicing to the First Nations Market Housing Fund (FNMHF), including institutional accounting, custody services, and investment information data access via the enterprise NEXEN platform. FNMHF was developed with input from First Nations communities and organisations across Canada to support financing arrangements for housing on reserve and settlement…
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BNY Mellon launches digital asset custody platform
BNY Mellon has gone live with its digital asset custody platform in the U.S. This will enable select clients to hold and transfer bitcoin and ether. BNY Mellon has been working closely with market-leading fintechs and tapped digital asset technology specialists Fireblocks and Chainalysis to integrate their technology to meet the present and future security…
BNY Mellon appoints head of global client management
BNY Mellon has hired Ed Fandrey as head of global client management. Based in New York, he will report to Akash Shah, BNY Mellon’s chief growth officer. He was most recently president of national sales and marketing at LPL Financial, a retail investment advisory firm, and previously spent two decades at Microsoft, latterly as vice…
BNY Mellon and Pirum launch optimisation service
BNY Mellon and Pirum, a fintech specialising in trading markets, have launched a joint optimisation service to offer collateral providers margining, risk management and inventory management to drive improved risk/return outcomes. The solution, ECPOConnect, combines BNY Mellon’s collateral management service, ECPO, which optimises more than USD4trn in assets globally, with Pirum’s CollateralConnect platform, a SaaS…
CIBC Mellon supports new Van Berkom fund
Van Berkom and Associates has launched its new Global Small Cap Strategy, a pooled fund. Founded in 1991, Van Berkom is a small cap specialist investment firm held 100pct by its employees. Van Berkom manages Canadian, U.S, Greater China and global strategies. As of June 30, 2022, Van Berkom and its Hong Kong affiliate had…
Teschner to retire from BNY Mellon
Charles Teschner, co-CEO of BNY Mellon’s data & platform solutions business, is to retire at the end of October. Teschner, who joined in 2019 from BCG, was instrumental in advancing the bank’s data strategy and implementation. Mark McKeon, his co-CEO, will continue in that role. In a statement, BNY Mellon said: “BNY Mellon thanks Charles…
BNY Mellon adds ESG ratings to sec lending program
BNY Mellon has launched enhancements to its securities finance platform to help clients analyse their agency securities lending program alongside their sustainability goals. Delivered through an interactive dashboard, clients can apply ESG scores based on third-party data across their lendable portfolio, collateral and cash investments to help them evaluate alignment with their individual ESG goals.…
BNY Mellon appoints Australia country executive
BNY Mellon has appointed Geoff Hodge as Australia country executive. He will continue to oversee global strategy as the head of Milestone Group, the Sydney-headquartered fund management fintech that he co-founded in 1998, which was acquired by BNY Mellon in 2021. He will take a seat on the BNY Mellon Asia Pacific Leadership Council. Alexis…
Aviva outsources to BNY Mellon
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has appointed BNY Mellon to provide a fully integrated operating model for certain front-office support services, as well as middle- and back-office activities. BNY Mellon will provide a comprehensive solution which encompasses asset services including custody, fund administration and depositary, as well as more advanced…
BNY Mellon hires network management veteran
Paul Hedges has joined BNY Mellon in London as lead specialist, global network management. He was a founding member of The Securities Services Advisory Group, and has previously worked at several major custody banks, including HSBC, J.P. Morgan and RBC.