BNY Mellon has hired Laura Steinbach from State Street as head of investment managers sales in the Americas for its asset servicing business, based in New York. She reports to Jane Mancini, global co-head of asset servicing sales. At State Street, she was responsible for business development with global investment managers.
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PAAMC mandates HSBC in Lux to service first UCITS umbrella fund
HSBC Luxembourg has been appointed by Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. to act as central administrator, depositary/trustee, transfer agent and custodian for its first UCITS umbrella fund, comprised initially of four sub-funds. In 2018 HSBC was appointed to service PAAMC’s first reserved alternative investment fund (RAIF) umbrella. The partnership with…
Citi to service Dimensional’s new ETF range
Citi has made a major breakthrough in the U.S. ETF sector with a mandate from Dimensional Fund Advisors to act as fund administrator, custodian, and transfer agent for three new actively managed ETFs. Dimensional, a U.S.-based manager with >USD500bn AuM, announced its plans to launch these funds in June 2020. Citi has a longstanding relationship…
BNP Paribas and Allfunds complete agreement
A year after announcing the deal, BNP Paribas and Allfunds have finally completed their strategic agreement. As part of this partnership, BNP Paribas Securities Services will give its fund-buyer clients access to more than 2,000 fund houses and 100,000 funds and a range of fund analytics services from its new Fund@ccess platform, which is powered…
Northern Trust launches portal for Canadian benefit plan participants
Northern Trust Canada has launched an online portal, Benefit Payment Participant Passport, enabling advanced automation for participants of Canadian benefit plans. The portal allows pension and benefit plan participants to access their program information in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in French or English. The self-service option supplements mailings, call…
CACEIS to service EUR1bn PE fund for ArchiMed
CACEIS has been selected to service the new MED Platform I fund run by ArchiMed, a private equity firm specialising in the healthcare sector. The mandate covers depositary bank, custody, middle-office, fund accounting and financing services for the fund, which reached a EUR1bn final close.
Citi extends partnership with Netwealth to include E2C
Citi has agreed to extend its partnership with Netwealth, a fund platform based in Australia, as its provider of global custody, global and domestic equities execution and fund administration. Netwealth will be the first Australian wealth platform to have access to Citi’s Execution to Custody (E2C) service, which provides global execution, settlement and custody services…
J.P. Morgan chooses H4 to improve document management
J.P. Morgan has chosen H4 to help improve the client contract onboarding experience, reuse data contained in documents, and build a digital library. H4 and J.P. Morgan have piloted the new documentation platform in the global custody business, with a view to rolling it out across the securities services business. In May 2020, J.P. Morgan…
State Street hires Nils Hoffmann as EMEA client executive
Nils Hoffmann has joined State Street as a client executive for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Based in Frankfurt, he will report jointly to Silvio Angius, a leader of the global clients division, and Stefan Gmuer, chief executive officer for State Street International. In this role, he will be responsible for the strategic direction and…
Samsung Fire & Marine appoints HSBC as global custodian
HSBC has been appointed as global custodian by Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (SFMI), a non-life insurance company in Korea, for part of its investment portfolio in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China. HSBC completed an asset transition of a portion of SFMI’s fixed income portfolios in these markets. This comes after the bank’s onboarding…