Christelle Ybanez has been appointed head of global relationship management for the securities services business of BNP Paribas. Based in Paris, she is responsible for the global relationship management team servicing its largest securities services’ clients headquartered in France. Ybanez was previously head of asset owners & managers strategy & planning. She has been with…
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HSBC facilitates first QFI derivatives trades in China
HSBC has facilitated a number of market firsts following China’s progressive opening of its onshore derivative markets to qualified foreign investors (QFIs). On 11 October, HSBC facilitated the first commodities futures trade in the market. The trade was placed by a QFI hedge fund, which has been actively investing in China and using HSBC as…
BNY Mellon launches digital asset custody platform
BNY Mellon has gone live with its digital asset custody platform in the U.S. This will enable select clients to hold and transfer bitcoin and ether. BNY Mellon has been working closely with market-leading fintechs and tapped digital asset technology specialists Fireblocks and Chainalysis to integrate their technology to meet the present and future security…
BNP Paribas to support Fineco’s ETF range
BNP Paribas has been selected by Fineco Asset Management (FAM) to provide a full range of banking services for its equities and fixed income ETFs listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. FAM, an Irish UCITS management company wholly owned by Italian bank FinecoBank S.p.A., has entered the ETF market with a range of Ireland-domiciled funds.…
Polar Capital expands relationship with Northern Trust
Northern Trust has been appointed by Polar Capital to provide global custody, depositary, transfer agency, fund accounting and currency management services to the Melchior Selected Trust. Domiciled in Luxembourg, Polar Capital’s Melchior Selected Trust was launched in 2010 and is comprised of the Melchior Absolute Return Fund, European Opportunities Fund and Global Equity Fund. All…
BNY Mellon appoints head of global client management
BNY Mellon has hired Ed Fandrey as head of global client management. Based in New York, he will report to Akash Shah, BNY Mellon’s chief growth officer. He was most recently president of national sales and marketing at LPL Financial, a retail investment advisory firm, and previously spent two decades at Microsoft, latterly as vice…
CACEIS wins UK pension fund mandate
CACEIS has been appointed by the UK’s Bedfordshire Pension Fund to provide custody, fund accounting and performance measurement services for its GBP2.9bn (USD3.2bn) of assets.
HSBC selects Clearstream for fund processing
HSBC has chosen Clearstream, Deutsche Börse’s post-trading service provider, as its global partner for administering investment fund activities for fund order routing, safekeeping, settlement and distribution support. Vestima, Clearstream’s investment fund processing infrastructure, enables processing of all types of funds – from mutual funds to hedge funds, private equity and ETFs – on a single…
State Street adds FundGuard to Alpha platform
State Street has selected FundGuard to deliver a strategic accounting solution for State Street Alpha. FundGuard is a scalable cloud-native investment accounting, fund accounting, and contingency NAV solution. The FundGuard accounting solution will be integrated for STP from portfolio management and trading in the Charles River Investment Management Solution through to custody and administration. A…
HQLAx pioneers cross-DLT repo trade
HQLAᵡ, J.P. Morgan, Ownera and Wematch have successfully tested the technical feasibility of executing a DvP repo transaction across two different DLT platforms at HQLAᵡ and J.P. Morgan. The test showed how rights to securities, recorded in digital collateral records (DCRs) on the HQLAᵡ ledger, and digital cash, recorded at J.P. Morgan, could be recorded…