Category: ETF

BNY has been appointed by WisdomTree to provide custody, accounting, fund administration, ETF services and securities lending across its U.S.-listed ETFs, covering USD80.7bn AuM. BNY has also been awarded fund accounting and administration of WisdomTree’s Bitcoin ETF and suite of tokenised funds. The outgoing provider is State Street, which took the mandate from BNY over…

Waystone, a European provider of specialist services to the global asset management industry, has been appointed as ManCo by American Century Investments for its first European ETFs. The two UCITS ETFs – Avantis Global Small Cap Value UCITS ETF and Avantis Global Equity UCITS ETF – have been launched under American Century’s quantitative investment unit,…

U.S. Bank has hired Lisa Korbas as head of ETF relationship management within its global fund services division. In this newly created role, Korbas will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing relationship strategy. She reports to Josh Jacobs, who was named chief commercial officer for ETFs earlier this year. Korbas brings 15 years of…

Direxion, a provider of tradeable and thematic ETFs, has selected SS&C ALPS Distributors to provide medallion distribution services for its ETF and mutual fund range. Direxion manages more than USD40bn across a diverse suite of leveraged and inverse ETFs and mutual funds. SS&C ALPS Distributors will act as the underwriter and distributor for issuance, redemption…

Fair Oaks Capital, a UK-based corporate credit manager, has received approval from CSSF, the Luxembourg regulator, to launch what is believed to be the first European-domiciled, Euro-denominated CLO ETF. Fair Oaks plans to list the ETF on Deutsche Börse Xetra and the London Stock Exchange shortly. Waystone has been appointed as the ManCo.

Waystone, the UK-based provider of specialist services to the asset management industry, has appointed Kevin Schrader as senior sales director of Waystone ETFs. He joins from Boston Partners Global Investors where he was responsible for the wholesale distribution of active value equity strategies in the UK. Waystone ETFs, which is led by CEO Paul Heffernan…

BNY has been appointed as administrator for seven of the nine ETH ETPs approved for trading in the U.S. in July. BlackRock (ETHA), Bitwise (ETHW), Grayscale (ETHE & ETH), Franklin Templeton (EZET), 21shares (CETH), and Invesco Galaxy (QETH) have named BNY as the cash custodian, transfer agent, and administrator, providing administrative, tax and accounting services,…