BNY Mellon is expanding its Custody FX offering, adding new trading capabilities and evolving from a primarily custody-focused service model into a transparent open architecture that can be leveraged by a variety of client types for their rules-based, end-to-end transaction needs. Effective immediately, clients in the FX trading programs can customise how they trade currencies…
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FSBA to deploy BNY Mellon’s ESG app
The Florida State Board of Administration (FSBA) has signed an agreement to leverage BNY Mellon’s ESG Data Analytics application to better manage, monitor and analyse ESG data across multiple sources. The application is built on the Microsoft Azure cloud and offered through BNY Mellon’s OMNI securities services platform. FSBA will also be collaborating with BNY…
BNY Mellon invests in Quantexa
BNY Mellon has completed an investment in Quantexa, a data management firm. As part of the deal, Joseph Sieczkowski, BNY Mellon’s CIO of engineering and architecture, will be joining the Quantexa board, and Eric Hirschhorn, chief data officer, will join Quantexa’s advisory board. BNY Mellon already uses Quantexa’s platform and will now expand its relationship…
BNY Mellon adds three senior managers to digital business
BNY Mellon continues to build out its digital senior management team, announcing three new hires. Hadley Stern joins as global head of digital custody, responsible for overseeing business and product development for the digital custody offering. He was most recently head of Amazon Web Services’ innovation labs. He will report to Caroline Butler, head of…
Archer adds John Lehner to board
Archer, a service provider to the investment management industry, has appointed John Lehner as a member of its board of directors. Lehner has previously worked at State Street, BNY Mellon and Eagle Investment Systems.
Rob Rushe joins CACEIS to head ETF solutions
Robert Rushe, one of the pioneers of the European ETF industry, has joined CACEIS as head of ETF solutions, based in Ireland. Rushe was part of the BoISS ETF team that joined Northern Trust after its acquisition in 2011, and most recently worked at BNY Mellon as head of the ETF business for EMEA.
BNY Mellon adds two seniors to asset servicing team
Two senior hires for BNY Mellon’s asset servicing operations team: Paul Vigilante has joined as head of accounting and investor solutions operations from J.P. Morgan. Based in New York, he reports to Jeremy Dobrick, head of asset servicing operations and technology. Prior to this role, Vigilante held senior operations roles in securities services and asset…
BNY Mellon/SNB Capital alliance goes live in Saudi Arabia
BNY Mellon and SNB Capital have gone live with their combined global securities services offering to institutional and large asset owners based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This comes after the 2020 agreement in which NCB Capital (now SNB Capital, following the merger with Samba Capital), KSA’s largest custodian, struck an alliance with…
J.P. Morgan makes senior custody appointments
Scott Markowitz has joined J.P. Morgan to head its Americas direct custody business. Markowitz spent four years at HSBC, most recently heading the securities services business in the Americas, following 16 years at BNY Mellon. J.P Morgan has also appointed Tom Casteleyn as head of global custody for EMEA, including responsibility for UK direct custody.…
BNY Mellon wins award for best workplace for innovators
Whilst it is my editorial policy not to feature news about industry awards – most of which are worthless – this one is notable, as it demonstrates how far BNY Mellon has come in the last three years. BNY Mellon has been named one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators for 2021. This annual…