HSBC has facilitated the first onshore private fund investment via the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors and RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII/RQFII) scheme in mainland China. HSBC is the custodian, providing services including investment scope update filing, payments, and custody for this market-first transaction completed by Baring Asset Management Limited. The fund is the first…
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Noor Adhami to head HSBC’s Singapore securities services business
HSBC has appointed Noor Adhami as head of securities services Singapore, effective 1 February 2021. Adhami joined HSBC in 2004. For the last four years, she has held the role of regional head of global liquidity & cash management for MENA and Turkey, during which she also headed the regional securities services business. Adhami will…
HSBC joins Aladdin Provider network
HSBC has become the latest bank to offer access to its securities services products via BlackRock’s Aladdin Provider technology, enabling asset managers and asset owners to connect with HSBC through Aladdin. In the first half of 2021, HSBC will begin rolling out its services on Aladdin, starting in Hong Kong and Singapore. HSBC currently administers…
HSBC launches sec lending solution for TTFs
HSBC has launched new custody and fund administration technology and an operating model for tax transparent funds (TTFs), where ‘look-through’ is applied at the share class level for securities lending, in what it claims to be a market first. This approach improves the tax transparency of securities lending opportunities in TTFs for institutional investors, while…
HSBC upgrades insurance administration services in Asia
HSBC has launched an upgraded fund administration solution for Asia-based insurance companies, after onboarding HSBC Life, its Hong Kong insurance business. HSBC now provides accounting, valuation and other administration services to HSBC Life, with over USD56bn of assets under administration onboarded, and more scheduled across Hong Kong and Singapore.
HSBC facilitates new sec lending transactions in mainland China
HSBC has facilitated securities lending transactions conducted by China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited in mainland China. The two transactions, executed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, are among the first batch of securities lending transactions via the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) scheme. HSBC is the custodian, providing services including investment…
HSBC to administer new HK/China cross-listing ETFs
HSBC has been appointed trustee, custodian and fund administrator for the first two ETFs in Hong Kong under the cross-listing scheme between Hong Kong and mainland China. Financial regulators in both markets have authorised Hang Seng Investment Management and CSOP Asset Management to launch Hang Seng Harvest CSI 300 Index ETF and CSOP Yinhua CSI…
HSBC to service Haitong’s ESG ETF in Hong Kong
HSBC has been appointed as the securities services provider by Haitong International Asset Management (HK) Limited for Haitong MSCI China A ESG ETF, the first broad-based ESG ETF listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Haitong is based in Hong Kong.
PAAMC mandates HSBC in Lux to service first UCITS umbrella fund
HSBC Luxembourg has been appointed by Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. to act as central administrator, depositary/trustee, transfer agent and custodian for its first UCITS umbrella fund, comprised initially of four sub-funds. In 2018 HSBC was appointed to service PAAMC’s first reserved alternative investment fund (RAIF) umbrella. The partnership with…
Samsung Fire & Marine appoints HSBC as global custodian
HSBC has been appointed as global custodian by Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (SFMI), a non-life insurance company in Korea, for part of its investment portfolio in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China. HSBC completed an asset transition of a portion of SFMI’s fixed income portfolios in these markets. This comes after the bank’s onboarding…