Northern Trust has launched an enhanced active collateral solution designed to help institutional investors manage their collateral more efficiently while meeting the demands of market change. The capability, delivered in collaboration with CloudMargin, a collateral management fintech, will provide enhanced service capabilities, increased transparency on a real-time basis and platform resiliency. This includes automated asset…
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Universal hires chief product officer
Universal Investment Group, the Europe-based fund services platform and Super ManCo, has scored a major coup with the appointment of Ronan Doyle as chief product officer. Doyle joins from CACEIS, where he was global head of product management, based in Dublin, having transferred from RBC following the takeover. U-I has also promoted André Jaeger to…
BBH partners with BestX
BBH has partnered with BestX, the State Street-owned FX TCA vendor, to provide its currency administration platform users with independent TCA. This will improve transparency through independent execution analysis, adding to BBH’s existing FX hedging solutions, which include multi-bank agency execution and performance analytics.
Cote takes new role at U.S. Bank
U.S. Bank has appointed Laura Cote as head of Global Fund Services (GFS) product. Cote has been with U.S. Bank for three years and was most recently a senior product manager for custody within the chief product office organisation. She previously spent 16 years at BBH, where she held operations and relationship management roles, as…
Northern Trust wins in Fiji
Northern Trust has been selected to provide custody services for Fiji’s sole compulsory superannuation fund, the Fiji National Provident Fund. FNPF is responsible for managing the retirement savings of Fijians in the workforce.
Citi & Fidelity conclude PoC
Citi and Fidelity International have run a PoC of an on-chain money market fund with a digital foreign exchange swap solution which delivers real-time settlement. This on-chain solution could enable investors to conduct seamless and real-time settlement of multi-asset positions in different currencies. The collaboration is under the aegis of Project Guardian, a Singapore-based collaboration…
Resona expands with BBH
BBH has expanded its relationship with Resona Asset Management Co. Ltd., an investment management firm based in Japan, to include InfoFX, BBH’s automated third-party FX solution. Resona is the first Japanese investment manager to implement InfoFX, a securities-based FX solution that enables automated FX order generation with execution netting capability. InfoFX supports FX orders across…
Northern Trust wins UK pension fund
Northern Trust has been appointed by Cadent Gas Pension Trustee Limited as custodian for its public and private assets, as well as for performance and SORP reporting, for its GBP4.6bn (USD6bn) defined benefit scheme.
Windstream deploys HUB
Windstream Partners, a C-suite outsourced solutions provider, is deploying HUB to automate performance reporting, standardizing factsheet generation, report scheduling, and improving its ability to respond to customised client report requests. HUB automates data preparation and validation, with configurable workflows and dashboards, and direct access to fully governed underlying performance data used in factsheet generation. Windstream…
Davides quits Broadridge
Lauren Davides has joined J.P. Morgan as an executive director in the product management team, based in Boston. Davides spent nearly 10 years at State Street – most recently as chief of staff for its digital business – before a brief spell at Broadridge.