State Street has been appointed ETF servicing agent for Fidelity Investments’ new range of semi-transparent, actively managed ETFs. Fidelity is the first asset manager to receive regulatory approval for three investment strategies: Fidelity Blue Chip Growth ETF, Fidelity Blue Chip Value ETF, and Fidelity New Millennium ETF, which will be available through Fidelity’s proprietary proxy…
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U.S. Bank to provide MO services for Carlyle Group’s CLO portfolio
The Carlyle Group has appointed U.S. Bank to provide middle office and financial reporting services for its CLO portfolio, comprised of more than 50 U.S. and European CLOs. This dual mandate expands U.S. Bank’s current service offering with Carlyle. The Carlyle Group manages more than USD25bn in CLOs in the U.S. and in Europe.
BNY Mellon hires Caroline Butler as global head of custody
BNY Mellon has hired Caroline Butler as global head of custody, reporting to Roman Regelman, head of asset servicing & digital. She will be based in New York. Butler spent nearly two decades at J.P. Morgan, where she was most recently head of global custody product for the Americas. She replaces Tom Casteleyn, who is…
BP2S uses NLG to generate client reports
BNP Paribas Securities Services is using natural language generation (NLG) to help clients with monitoring and oversight of their operations. Along with traditional monthly statistics reports providing in-depth data on their operations, BP2S clients will receive analysis and commentaries on their assets under custody, settlement, corporate actions and income activities. This one-page executive summary, written…
BNY Mellon to build out FX presence in Singapore
BNY Mellon plans to build a high-performance FX pricing and trading engine in partnership with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The bank will establish new low-latency electronic FX infrastructure in Singapore, helping to improve execution quality and price discovery for clients initially in spot, and subsequently in deliverable and non-deliverable forwards and swaps. This follows…
UVic appoints Northern Trust in Canada for CAD2bn custody mandate
The University of Victoria (UVic) has appointed Northern Trust Canada to provide trustee, global custody, pension benefit payments and associated services for approximately CAD2.0bn in pension and foundation assets.
BNY Mellon appoints Daron Pearce to lead asset servicing strategic growth
BNY Mellon has appointed Daron Pearce as head of asset servicing strategic growth. In this newly created global role, he will focus on identifying and accelerating both inorganic and new market entry opportunities. He moved to the new role on 1 June, reporting to James Slater, global head of business solutions. Pearce was previously head…
BBH appointed to service new Allianz Buffered Outcome ETFs
Brown Brothers Harriman has been selected by Allianz Investment Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, to provide custody, accounting, administration, TA and order taking services for its new Buffered Outcome ETFs. The first two U.S. ETFs were listed on the NYSE on June 1, with plans for additional…
BNP Paribas to act as depositary for new FII SGR PE fund in Italy
BNP Paribas Securities Services has been selected by Fondo Italiano d’Investimento SGR (FII SGR) to provide depositary banking services to its Fondo Italiano di Minoranze per la Crescita, a new private equity fund dedicated to minority investing. FII SGR was created in 2010 at the initiative of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and…
BNY Mellon to service Legg Mason’s first semi-transparent ETF
Legg Mason and its affiliate, ClearBridge Investments, have launched Legg Mason’s first exchange-traded fund using the semi-transparent technology of Precidian Investments LLC, ActiveShares. BNY Mellon has been appointed to provide its new end-to-end digital solution to support the ETF.