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BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched a service to help asset owners measure and monitor the counterparty and liquidity risk arising from their derivatives exposure and anticipate their long-term collateral requirements. The service is already in use by AIA Group, a longstanding risk and analytics client. In 2016 AIA appointed BNPP as its OTC derivatives…

Sudrania Fund Services, the Chicago-based fund administrator, has added three senior managers to its team, bringing global headcount to >200. Amit Arora joins from NAV Fund Administration Group as vice president of client success. Skyler Steinke, who was a business development director at Ultimus Fund Solutions, joins as a senior vice president of business development.…

ReAssure Limited, the UK life and pensions company, has appointed HSBC as custodian and fund administrator for GBP28bn (USD36bn) of assets after ReAssure’s GBP650m acquisition of 1.1 million closed life insurance policies from Legal & General. Separately, ReAssure has also appointed HSBC as fund administrator of its shareholder book, amounting to GBP15bn (USD19bn) of assets.…

SS&C’s Precision LM has been selected to support Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) combined USD115bn loan servicing portfolio, following the real estate company’s acquisition last year of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, LP. JLL is a primary servicer and provider of commercial loan services to more than 50 institutional investors. JLL adopted SS&C’s Precision LM as its agency/multifamily…

HSBC has been appointed trustee for BlackRock’s iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (HK), the first Hong Kong-domiciled master-feeder ETF structure. BlackRock has launched its new feeder ETF after listing on the Hong Kong Exchange. This came after the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced the relaxation of rules for the master-feeder structure, allowing feeder structures…