Category: Bank Providers

After a 10-month sabbatical, Ally Kyle has emerged at Broadridge Financial Solutions as director, ICS international account management. Kyle spent 10 years at HSBC, most recently as head of account management in Europe for asset owners and managers. ICS is Broadridge’s investor communications business.

Royal London Asset Management, a UK fund management company with GBP153bn (USD194bn) AuM, has adopted BlackRock’s Aladdin technology platform, which HSBC will leverage to manage RLAM’s middle office. RLAM’s assets are currently serviced by HSBC’s securities services business, and will now be supported by Aladdin. HSBC has provided RLAM with global custody and middle-office services…

Railpen, the fiduciary and investment manager of the UK railways’ pension schemes, has appointed BNY Mellon to provide a cloud-based data platform that aims to simplify its data architecture and support the resilience of its operating model. The platform will deliver greater insights from Railpen’s proprietary data for investment reporting and analytics. Railpen is responsible…

Citi has been appointed by Global X ETFs, part of Mirae Asset Financial Group, to service Hong Kong’s first covered call ETFs. Mirae manages assets of >USD535bn and has over 575 ETFs globally with USD109bn AuM. Global X ETFs has launched the Global X HSI Components Covered Call Active ETF and Global X HSCEI Components…

ETC Group has appointed Zodia Custody to support its latest ETP listed on Deutsche Börse XETRA, the ETC Group Ethereum Staking ETP, a total return exchange-traded product that tracks the Compass Ethereum Total Return Monthly Index. The ETP is fully backed by the underlying digital assets, and counterparty risk is negated through an independent trustee.…

Northern Trust has selected FINBOURNE Technology, the UK-based fintech, to provide valuations and reporting capabilities for its enterprise global technology. Northern Trust will leverage FINBOURNE’s cloud-native financial data management solution, LUSID, and data virtualisation engine, Luminesce, to modernise its valuations and reporting functions and provide enhanced service delivery to clients.

BNY Mellon has hired Elliott Brown as head of alternatives for the asset servicing business. Based in New York, he reports to Christine Waldron, global head of fund services. He was previously at Citco and has also worked at Apex and J.P. Morgan.

Chenavari Asset Management has appointed BNP Paribas to provide private capital services for its newly launched Real Estate Decarbonisation Fund. BNP Paribas will provide depositary, registrar, accounting manager and middle office services. The bank will also provide digital reporting capabilities through its CapLink Private platform.

HSBC has executed a Hong Kong dollar repo transaction with The Bank of East Asia, Limited (BEA), which used Hong Kong government digitally native green bonds as collateral for financing purposes. This is understood to be the first repo in Hong Kong involving digital bonds. Using HSBC Orion as the digital assets platform, HSBC helped…