Category: Bank Providers

Jim Harris has returned to RBC Investor Services as associate director, network management risk and control. Harris, who worked for RBC for 23 years, was most recently at BMO, and also ran Soterium, a consultancy. He is based in Toronto.

Shane Monks has joined BNY as global head of ETF and UIT operations, based in Boston. Monks joins from J.P. Morgan, after spending 15 years at State Street. This is the second major loss for J.P. Morgan from its ETF business, with Josh Jacobs recently moving to U.S. Bank. Vivian Tung, who was BNY’s global…

Nicolas Gonzalez has joined Amundi Technology as a sales and relationship manager. Gonzalez spent 15 years at SGSS, including assignments in India and Russia, before a brief spell with Bank GPB International in Luxembourg. He is based in Paris.

CACEIS now offers broker-dealers, market makers and banks the opportunity to trade on the ARTEX trading venue, with support from CACEIS’ clearing & settlement services. ARTEX is a multilateral trading facility on which shares in world-famous, iconic works of art are traded. The shares in the artworks are tradable and transferable securities just like all…

Monochrome, an Australia-based ETF manager, has launched the country’s first directly held Bitcoin ETF. Vasco Trustees Limited is the Responsible Entity (trustee) of the fund and has engaged State Street as cash custodian and administrator for the ETF. Vasco has also appointed Gemini Trust Company, LLC as the fund’s Bitcoin custodian.