Northern Trust has made three London-based appointments across its institutional product and business development teams: Howard Rapley has been appointed global product lead, securities services, responsible for the strategy and capabilities supporting client assets held by Northern Trust. These include safekeeping, settlement, income, corporate actions and tax reclamation services. Rapley spent two decades with Citi…
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U.S. Bank appoints BNP Paribas as European custodian
U.S. Bank, one of the world’s top 10 custodians with USD6.8trn AuC/A, has appointed BNP Paribas Securities Services as its custodian in 11 European markets (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland), as well as local custody services in the UK and Ireland. The relationship covers over USD10bn in…
IGM outsources fund services to CIBC Mellon
IGM Financial Inc. has selected CIBC Mellon to assume most of IGM’s fund services functions. This will add fund administration servicing solutions to the custody and related services that CIBC Mellon already performs for IGM. Once definitive agreements are complete, most IGM fund services employees in Toronto and Winnipeg (c.100 people) will transition to CIBC…
BNP Paribas releases 17 APIs for fund admin business
BNP Paribas Securities Services has released a set of APIs for its fund administration business. The bank has opted to standardise these APIs to ISO 20022 for greater interoperability across platforms. This new catalogue of 17 fund accounting APIs automatically updates clients’ systems with information specific to their business held by BP2S. This information includes…
BNY Mellon expands ESG analytics to corporate bonds
BNY Mellon has expanded its ESG analytics offering by integrating fixed income scoring for corporate bonds. Clients can now view ESG and GC scores on equities and fixed income at the portfolio level versus relevant benchmarks over time. Clients also have the ability to view the ESG and GC scores at the company-level. Additionally, BNY…
Citi launches multi-slot IBOR solution
Citi has upgraded its Investment Book of Record (IBOR) data delivery service to support middle office clients operating across multiple trading cycles. The ‘multi-slot’ IBOR solution can be customised to meet the operational needs of individual clients across their front office locations in various regions, particularly informing start-of-day trading positions and cash forecasts globally. The…
BNY Mellon forms strategic alliance with Bloomberg
Following its alliance deal with BlackRock Solutions earlier this year, BNY Mellon has formed a strategic alliance with Bloomberg that further integrates BNY Mellon’s data, analytics, and servicing capabilities with AIM, Bloomberg’s portfolio management, trading and compliance platform. The new connectivity streamlines data delivery between the two firms and enables clients to access BNY Mellon’s…
Northern Trust launches new client dashboards for Omnium
Northern Trust has launched a range of new client dashboards for Omnium, its technology platform for alternative fund administration. Omnium client dashboards feature a streamlined interface to enhance the user experience and are optimised for mobile devices to provide real-time, on-demand access to portfolio information. Additional features include interactive data visualisation capabilities, readily accessible static…
CTIM selects Northern Trust’s Integrated Trade Solutions service
Northern Trust has been appointed to provide its Integrated Trading Solutions service and MiFID II transaction reporting to Charles Taylor Investment Management (CTIM), the fund management business of Charles Taylor plc, a professional services and technology solutions provider to the global insurance market. CTIM has USD2bn AuM. The mandate expands CTIM’s existing relationship with Northern…
BNP Paribas wins USD7.5bn mandate from Colombia’s Protección
BNP Paribas has been appointed as global custodian by Protección S.A. and has onboarded Protección’s foreign portfolio of over USD7.5bn in assets. Protección S.A. is one of the largest pension funds in Colombia with over USD31bn in assets. One of its main shareholders is SURA Asset Management, which is a subsidiary of SURA Group, one…