BNP Paribas has entered into an agreement with HSBC for the acquisition of the custody and depositary bank business of HSBC Continental Europe S.A., Germany, subject to regulatory approvals. As part of the agreement, the custody business staff employed at HSBC Continental Europe S.A., Germany will transfer to BNP Paribas’ securities services business in Germany.…
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BNY wins (back) WisdomTree ETF mandate
BNY has confirmed that WisdomTree, Inc. to provide custody, depositary, accounting, fund administration and ETF services for its Europe-listed products. WisdomTree Europe has AuM totaling USD40.1bn. BNY is expanding its relationship with WisdomTree as custodian, administrator, securities lending agent and ETF servicing provider across its U.S.-listed products, to now include capabilities which support its Irish-domiciled…
State Street to service COtwo ETP
State Street has been appointed as fund administrator and transfer agent for the COtwo Advisors Physical European Carbon Allowance Trust (NYSE Arca: CTWO), the first US-listed exchange-traded product backed by physical European Union Allowances (EUAs). State Street will deliver ETF solutions, including fund accounting, administration, and transfer agency.
NTRS wins IDS mandates in Asia
Northern Trust has been selected by Hong Kong-based asset managers Clean Alpha Partners and Keyrock Capital Management Limited to deliver Investment Data Science solutions through its strategic partnership with Equity Data Science (EDS). Under the mandates, Northern Trust will provide access to EDS’ Research Management System, a workflow solution that integrates real-time quantitative and qualitative…
BBH upgrades InfoAction
BBH has launched an enhanced version of InfoAction, a corporate actions SaaS workflow solution for asset managers and financial institutions. Built on BBH’s Infomediary Data Solutions platform, InfoAction automates the event notification and response process, enabling efficient tracking and management of the entire corporate actions workflow and providing a golden record of data. The latest…
Mereo appoints NTRS
Northern Trust has been selected to provide asset servicing and asset management solutions to the newly–launched reinsurance firm, Mereo Insurance Limited, based in Bermuda. Northern Trust will provide custody services and institutional brokerage solutions, serving as broker for Mereo’s trade execution needs. Additionally, Northern Trust Asset Management will manage a portion of Mereo’s fixed income…
BNPP adds collateral management solution
BNP Paribas has launched the Schedule Manager on its NeoLink client platform, a new triparty collateral management solution that enables clients to enhance collateral optimisation. The Schedule Manager, the latest module of in its triparty collateral suite of tools and services, enables its clients to define, update, monitor and share their collateral schedules, in a…
UniSuper mandates BNPP for data services
BNP Paribas has won a data management mandate from UniSuper, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds. UniSuper will deploy BNY’s recently launched Data PRISM360 data management solution. The service will offer a more holistic fund view, leveraging the Investment Data Solution of NeoXam, a provider of financial data software. BNPP will deliver a range of…
CACEIS hires ETF specialist from BBH
Eamonn O’Callaghan has joined CACEIS as ETF group product manager, based in Ireland. He has 25 years’ experience within the financial services industry, most of which has been working with ETF issuers. He previously held the position of head of European ETF product with Brown Brothers Harriman and prior to this worked with BNY, HSBC…
BNY to support new stablecoin from SG-FORGE
Société Générale-FORGE (SG-FORGE), an integrated subsidiary of the group dedicated to crypto assets, is to launch a new stablecoin, the USD CoinVertible, on both the Ethereum and Solana public blockchains (ticker: USDCV). BNY will act as reserve custodian.