CACEIS and Crédit Agricole CIB are supporting Antin Infrastructure Partners, the independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure investment, with the structuring of equity bridge financing for its first NextGen infrastructure fund. CACEIS has acted as the fund’s depositary, and Crédit Agricole CIB acted as arrangers and lenders of the EUR180m (USD195m) facility.
Category: Bank Providers
FundGuard closes USD40m funding round
FundGuard, the AI-powered SaaS investment management and asset servicing enterprise platform, has closed a USD40m Series B funding round. The investment round included large strategic investors, Citi and State Street, who joined initial investors Blumberg Capital, LionBird Ventures, and Team8 Capital, inter alia, to back the company’s future-ready technology approach to asset servicing. This latest…
RBC wins ETF mandate for Evermore
RBC Investor & Treasury Services has been named custodian by Evermore Capital Inc. for Canada’s first target date ETFs, eight of which were launched in February. RBC I&TS will also provide ETF accounting and administration services. This is a new relationship with Evermore, a Canadian asset management company currently focused on retirement ETFs. Myron Genyk,…
State Street hires new head of global clients division
State Street has appointed Michael Knowling to head of its global clients division (GCD). Knowling will report jointly to Joerg Ambrosius and Chris Coleman. In this role, Knowling will manage a team of senior client executives, global relationship managers, and client analysts as part of State Street’s client coverage model focused on delivering cross-enterprise solutions…
Securrency secures FSP for ADGM
Securrency Capital, a broker-dealer based in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), has secured a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from ADGM’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) to deal in investments as a matched principal and provide custody for those investments. The license enables Securrency Capital to provide trading of digital assets to a variety of…
SG supports Generali digital bond purchase
Generali Investments – through Generali Insurance Asset Management, on behalf of the French company Generali IARD – has purchased, on the secondary market, security tokens of the digitally native bond issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB) in 2021 (with Société Générale as Joint lead manager). The transaction was performed over the blockchain infrastructure of…
Aon and BNY Mellon collaborate on ESG
Aon and BNY Mellon have signed a multi-faceted data and digital collaboration focusing on supporting the ESG needs of clients globally, leveraging both firms’ collective ESG data and analytics capabilities and data sets. In addition, Aon and BNY Mellon will work to further enhance solutions in the areas of digital assets and data and analytics.…
BNY Mellon adds ETF servicing capabilities
BNY Mellon has launched its ETF Intelligent Basket Builder and ETF Asset Flow Analytics Dashboard, its latest services to support the growth and digitisation of the ETF operating model. BNY Mellon now services >USD1.25trn in ETF assets, The ETF Intelligent Basket Builder, part of BNY Mellon’s ETF Center and available on its NEXEN portal, provides…
SG signs with Saphyre
Saphyre, the U.S.-based fintech company focused on pre-trade setups and post-trade issues, has signed up Société Générale’s global markets division for new fund onboarding and maintenance. SG has been collaborating with Saphyre on STP of account setups to speed the time to market in order to provide immediate liquidity as well as seamless post-trade allocations…
State Street wins NB ETFs
Neuberger Berman, the U.S.-based independent investment manager, has launched its first-ever actively managed ETFs. Managed by Neuberger Berman, the ETFs are an extension of the firm’s thematic equity investment capabilities utilising traditional fundamental equity research along with alternative data capabilities and consideration of material ESG factors. Each fund has selected State Street as custodian for…