Month: December 2021

CSC, the U.S.-based provider of business, legal, tax, and digital brand services, has secured additional depositary licences from the Netherlands Authority Financial Markets (AFM). After being one of the first non-bank providers to receive a depositary license for real estate and infrastructure funds, CSC has now extended its licence to include UCITS funds. In addition,…

Equity Trustees, the Australian provider of responsible entity and trustee services, has appointed Johnny Francis as general manager, business development and custody, corporate trustee services. Francis spent seven years at Perpetual Limited, most recently as head of sales and relationship management for managed fund services. Equity Trustees’ CTS division currently has more than AUD100bn (USD71bn)…

Mark Snowdon has joined Standard Chartered as head of insurance relationship management for Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for managing and developing the bank’s financing and securities servicing insurance client franchise across Asia, incorporating custody, fund services, agency securities lending and prime services activities. He joins from Northern Trust.

STP Investment Services, a U.S.-based, end-to-end investment operations service provider with >USD340bn AuA, has acquired Tower Fund Services, a U.S.-based fund administrator providing an outsourced solution for alternative investment managers and family offices. Tower offers fund administration to private equity funds, cryptocurrency funds, hedge funds, venture capital, fund of funds, real estate, and direct lending…

Broadridge Financial Solutions, the U.S.-based fintech, has delivered its full suite of Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) investor communication solutions to Northern Trust. These solutions are in use across Northern Trust’s global asset servicing business. Northern Trust is also using Broadridge’s SRD II-enhanced global proxy platform, which supports same-day meeting distributions, agenda translations, vote processing…