RBS International has appointed Amelia Phillips as its new head of alternatives client management & sales in Luxembourg. Prior to RBC, she spent five years at BNY Mellon, where she was responsible for servicing the bank’s depositary clients.
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CIBC Mellon to support first JSPP in Ontario
CIBC Mellon has been selected to provide asset servicing, investment operations and plan member services for the University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP), including custody, institutional accounting, performance and analytics, risk, compliance and pension benefit payment services. UPP is a jointly sponsored pension plan (JSPP) designed to help bring enhanced retirement security to current and future…
Grayscale adds BNY Mellon as key servicing provider
Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager with >USD30bn AuM, has selected BNY Mellon as an asset servicing provider for Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, its flagship product. BNY Mellon will provide Grayscale Bitcoin Trust with fund accounting and administration effective October 1, 2021. Additionally, it is anticipated that BNY Mellon will provide transfer agency…
NPS renews agreement with State Street
The National Pension Service of Korea, the world’s third largest pension fund, has renewed its service agreement with State Street, which will continue to provide back-office and middle-office services for the NPS’ global equity and alternatives portfolios which have KRW222trn (USD195bn) and KRW49trn (USD43bn) AuM respectively. State Street has been providing custody, fund accounting, performance…
BNY Mellon to acquire Milestone
BNY Mellon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Milestone Group, a U.S.-based provider of fund management technology, including the widely adopted pControl platform. The deal comes just over a year after the two companies formed an alliance to create a suite of oversight and contingent NAV services for asset managers and owners seeking…
Mike Janiszewski joins BNY Mellon as COO of asset servicing & digital
As part of a senior management overhaul of its asset servicing and digital businesses, BNY Mellon has appointed Michael Janiszewski as chief operating officer, overseeing asset servicing strategy, digital and business operations. He will be based in New York and report directly to Roman Regelman, global head of asset serving and digital. He was most…
Suresh Krishnamurthy joins SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets to head client solutions
Suresh Krishnamurthy has joined SS&C to lead client solutions for SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets, SS&C’s private equity and real assets fund administration business. He will report to Bhagesh Malde, global head of SS&C GlobeOp Private Markets. He joins from BNY Mellon, where he headed product solutions for alternative investment servicing. Prior to BNY Mellon, he…
Peter Salvage joins Enfusion from BNY Mellon
Peter Salvage, a veteran of the alternatives fund administration industry, has joined Enfusion, a U.S.-based, private equity-backed fintech that provides front-to-back investment management software and SaaS solutions. Salvage joins as managing director, global head channel & alliance partners, a role that will see him work to strengthen Enfusion’s global channel partnerships with prime brokers, fund…
Björn Storim nominated to head BNY Mellon’s European Bank
Björn Storim has been nominated to succeed Leonique van Houwelingen as CEO of the Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV (the European Bank), subject to board and regulatory approval. Ms. van Houwelingen has been appointed as EMEA head of strategic growth and regional head of client coverage for the asset servicing business, and will be…
Brock U appoints CIBC Mellon
CIBC Mellon has been selected by Brock University to provide custody, institutional accounting and pension benefit payment services to the Brock University Pension Plan, as well as access to data and investment information. Brock University sponsors a hybrid pension plan, which contains both defined contribution and defined benefit components. Josh Tonnos, Brock University’s chief financial…