State Street has gone live in Singapore with Fund Connect ETF, a global primary market ETF portal with access to more than 960 ETFs. Fund Connect ETF is an online fund portal for the creation and redemption of ETFs, designed as a single point of access for sponsors. The portal’s automated order placement solution and…
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State Street Digital hires senior tech managers
State Street Digital has appointed Rob Otter as head of blockchain engineering and Nitin Gaur as digital technology strategy lead. Otter, based in London reports to Aman Thind, chief technology officer of State Street Digital. Gaur, based in Austin, Texas, will report to Otter. Otter joins State Street from JPMorgan Chase, where he was CTO…
CIBC Mellon partners with FRT
CIBC Mellon has formed a partnership with Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), a provider of securities class action recovery services to the investment community. Through this collaboration, Canadian institutional investors will be able to subscribe for enhanced governance, recovery, and shareholder litigation solutions from FRT to help them navigate the complexities associated with class action claims…
Ocorian adds to U.S. bus dev team
Ocorian, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed Ashish Prabhakar as head of business development and capital markets for the Americas. Based in New York, Prabhakar will report to Simon Behan, chief commercial officer. He was previously at HSBC.
State Street partners with Paxos in T+0 pilot
Paxos, the regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, has partnered with State Street to integrate State Street’s custody services into the Paxos Settlement Service. As part of the pilot, State Street was able to simulate the settlement and custody of shares on the Paxos platform and asset movements more efficiently. State Street was able to send settlement…
Northern Trust hires senior insurance banker
Mauricio Sandoval has joined Northern Trust as a senior sales representative focused on the insurance sector. He previously spent 23 years at BNY Mellon, most recently as a senior relationship manager in the banks, broker dealers and insurance group. He is based in New York.
Citi makes European management changes
Citi has announced some senior management changes in Europe: Alex Todd has been appointed head of securities services for Europe. He will report to Maria Cantillon, EMEA head of securities services sales, Kristen Braden, and Bryan Murphy, global head of bank sales. He will continue in his role as EMEA head of bank sales. He…
Two join BNY Mellon from BBH
Meaghan Lee has joined BNY Mellon as a vice president in the relationship management team, based in Boston. She was previously at BBH. Michael Prisco, also formerly of BBH, has joined BNY Mellon as a director.
BNY Mellon to administer new Grayscale European ETF
BNY Mellon in Ireland has been appointed as custodian and administrator for Grayscale’s first European ETF, launched through the HANetf platform, for which BNY Mellon provides custody and administration. The Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (GFOF) will list on the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana and will be available to investors…
State Street to administer crypto ETF in Australia
K2 Asset Management has appointed State Street Australia Limited as the fund administrator and custodian in Australia for the Cosmos Purpose Bitcoin Access ETF (Cboe: CBTC), Australia’s first cryptocurrency ETF ultimately backed by physically settled Bitcoin. CBTC’s underlying asset is the Purpose Bitcoin ETF which is managed by Purpose Investments and quoted on the Toronto…