BNY Mellon has established an alliance with Financial Recovery Technologies, the U.S.-based provider of securities class action recovery services to the investment community. The alliance will offer solutions to address the demand for better governance solutions associated with shareholder litigation monitoring and recovery, offering BNY Mellon’s clients access to FRT’s suite of class action solutions,…
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FundRock launches distribution support services
FundRock, the Luxembourg-based third-party ManCo and AIFM that is owned by Apex, has launched a new operation in Luxembourg to provide fund distribution solutions to non-EU asset managers. Asset managers, for which FundRock or its affiliates act as ManCo/AIFM, will be able to access FundRock’s fund distribution solutions through the recently established FundRock Distribution S.A.,…
State Street and S&P Global Trucost to offer enhanced ESG reporting
State Street has formed a strategic engagement with S&P Global Trucost that brings together State Street’s recently launched ESG Risk Analytics and Reporting capabilities and Trucost’s climate data and analytics. The agreement will allow State Street to overlay Trucost’s data intelligence on the risks and opportunities of climate change to build on State Street’s existing…
Fundamental AM selects Opus Nebula’s client reporting solution
Fundamental Asset Management, a UK-based manager, has selected Opus Nebula’s Reporting as a Service solution for production of its quarterly client investment reports. FAM and its clients will benefit through improved report packs, greater efficiency and automated distribution. Opus Nebula was founded in 2014 to deliver reporting solutions to the investment management industry. Opus Nebula…
Jacques d’Estais to retire from BNP Paribas
After 39 years at BNP Paribas, Jacques d’Estais will retire from the group by the end of 2021. He has stepped down from his role as group deputy COO and head of international financial services to become executive advisor to BNP Paribas general management. For many years d’Estais oversaw the bank’s securities services business, BP2S.
Northern Trust to establish eFX pricing engine in Singapore
Northern Trust is to establish a new electronic foreign exchange (eFX) pricing engine in Singapore, in partnership with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. This will be Northern Trust’s first eFX engine in Asia-Pacific.
BNY Mellon adds FICC cleared repo to LiquidityDirect portal
BNY Mellon has made FICC sponsored cleared repo available through its LiquidityDirect short-end investment portal. Institutional clients can now seamlessly invest cash in cleared repo through LiquidityDirect. The addition of cleared repo to LiquidityDirect broadens the range of short-term investments on the platform to include a secured, centrally cleared alternative that provides counterparty diversity and…
State Street plans ESG-aware commingled cash collateral service
State Street plans to roll out its agency lending program’s first ESG-aware commingled cash collateral reinvestment strategy. The agency lending team has partnered with State Street Global Advisors, its asset management business, to provide securities lending clients with a commingled cash collateral reinvestment strategy that follows short-term investment guidelines, while considering R-Factor, a proprietary ESG…
MUFG launches private markets ESG reporting service
Following its recent roll-out of an ESG reporting solution, MUFG Investor Services has launched its private markets ESG reporting service. The solution will allow data to be collected in an automated way, with an overlay of ESG expertise from analysts, while being tailored to industry, investment, and client requirements. MUFG will provide reporting services, starting…
BNY Mellon accepts Chinese bonds as triparty collateral
BNY Mellon has facilitated better investor utilisation of Chinese fixed income assets following the introduction of the bonds as eligible collateral on BNY Mellon’s triparty platform through Hong Kong’s Bond Connect. BNY Mellon’s new solution enables clients to deploy these assets as collateral. Once the assets are within the bank’s triparty platform, clients can use…