Railpen, the fiduciary and investment manager of the UK railways’ pension schemes, has appointed BNY Mellon to provide a cloud-based data platform that aims to simplify its data architecture and support the resilience of its operating model. The platform will deliver greater insights from Railpen’s proprietary data for investment reporting and analytics. Railpen is responsible…
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BK hires head of alts
BNY Mellon has hired Elliott Brown as head of alternatives for the asset servicing business. Based in New York, he reports to Christine Waldron, global head of fund services. He was previously at Citco and has also worked at Apex and J.P. Morgan.
Lunate appoints BNY Mellon
Lunate Capital, the Abu Dhabi-based alternative investment manager with >USD50bn AuM, has appointed BNY Mellon as administrator, transfer agent and global custodian for all its funds. In 2023 Lunate and BNY Mellon invested in a new company, Alpheya, that will develop a wealth management technology platform for wealth and asset managers in the Middle East…
BNY Mellon upgrades ETF basket construction
BNY Mellon has launched a new ETF basket construction platform. The new platform will provide asset managers with a digital workflow, backed by start-of-day NAV data, to present market-making information to liquidity providers. This solution will support asset managers in valuing, creating, and publishing basket information more efficiently. Users will be able to customise and…
Northern Trust hires from BNY Mellon
Jacquelynne Anderson has joined Northern Trust to head relationship management for the asset owners business line, based in London. She was most recently at BNY Mellon, where she spent more than 12 years, both in UK and South Africa.
BlackRock appoints BNY Mellon
After a multi-year evaluation and selection process, BlackRock has appointed BNY Mellon to work alongside State Street as a service provider for its Irish-domiciled ETFs. BNY Mellon is expected to assume responsibility for about half of BlackRock’s iShares ETFs, totalling some USD356bn, providing depositary, fund administration and fund accounting services. State Street will remain registrar…
Ripple hires from BNY Mellon
Maxime de Guillebon has joined Ripple, the crypto payments service, after just six months at BNY Mellon. He is based in Switzerland, the home base of Metaco, which Ripple acquired in 2023. He was CEO of Zodia Custody before joining BNY Mellon as head of digital asset product.
Aztec appoints RE head
Aztec Group, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed Claire Stapleton as group head of real assets. Based in Kilkenny, Ireland, she joins from BNY Mellon, where she was global head of real estate accounting. Prior to that, she was head of the Kilkenny real assets & private equity team at State Street International (Ireland) Limited. Her…
Arteria AI hires from BNY Mellon
Arteria AI, a fintech specialising in enterprise documentation infrastructure, has hired Kay Hayre as a strategic account director. Hayre joins Arteria AI from BNY Mellon, where she was head of business development for UK and Ireland in the asset servicing and digital division. Based in London, Hayre will be responsible for driving new business, with…
Pandiri leaves Apex
After less than a year in the post, Samir Pandiri has left Apex, where he was group president. He joined Apex in May 2023, taking responsibility for operations, technology product innovation, risk and human resources. Apex confirmed that he had left the company, but did not comment further on the circumstances of his departure. Pandiri…