Category: HSBC

HSBC is the latest client to go live on the recently launched sponsored repo solution built on Broadridge’s DLT-enabled distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform. Through DLT and smart contracts, clients can anticipate substantial improvements in settlement costs, streamlined processes, enhanced scalability, and a marked decrease in operational risks. HSBC is the second client to go…

BNP Paribas has appointed Sébastien Danloy as global head of sales & relationship management for institutional investors, a newly created role. Based in London, he becomes a permanent member of the securities services management board, reporting to Alvaro Camuñas, head of client development for securities services. Danloy was most recently global head of investor services,…

HSBC plans to launch a new digital assets custody service for institutional clients who invest in tokenised securities. Once live in 2024, HSBC’s new service will complement HSBC Orion, the bank’s platform for issuing digital assets, as well as HSBC’s recently launched offering for tokenised physical gold. The new service does not cover cryptocurrencies or…

HSBC has processed the first trades tokenising the ownership of physical gold held in HSBC’s UK vault, using DLT. HSBC has developed this capability by creating a digital twin of an existing physical asset – specifically physical gold held in HSBC’s vault. Tokenised physical gold can be traded between HSBC and institutional investors through the…

Carl Andrews has been appointed global head of operations for Citco, the specialist alternatives administrator. Andrews, who is based in the UK, previously spent over 13 years at HSBC, most recently as head of Europe and the Americas for the securities services business.

Further exits from HSBC’s securities services business, following the senior management changes implemented earlier this year. After Ronnie Griffin – widely regarded as one of the best trust and depositary managers in Europe – left earlier this year, it is understood that CP Yap, who was appointed head of fund services at the end of…

HSBC has launched ETF Platform Solutions, its new end-to-end platform providing asset servicing solutions to ETF issuers globally. Under a single offering, ETF issuers will have access to HSBC’s markets & securities services capabilities, such as: ETF order management, PCF production, and custom ETF NAV attribution analysis; AP services including ETF seeding and HSBC’s ETF…

M&G Investments, the UK-based manager with c. GBP300bn (USD381bn) AuM, has appointed Richard Godfrey as chief operating officer for asset management, subject to regulatory approval. Reporting to CEO Joseph Pinto, Godfrey will join M&G’s asset management executive committee and will be responsible for all investment management operational functions. Godfrey was most recently global co-head of…