Citi has appointed Justin Burman as Australia product head for fund services. The appointment comes as Citi continues to transition clients from RBC, following a client transfer agreement finalised in March 2020. Burman has worked at BNP Paribas and, most recently, at RBC.
Category: Bank Providers
State Street adds to collateral management team
State Street has appointed Staffan Ahlner as global head of Collateral+, a part of the funding and collateral solutions group. Ahlner, who previously led BNY Mellon‘s global collateral management business, will manage State Street’s Collateral + team to build on the company’s core collateral management capabilities and develop future collateral management solutions. Ahlner will report…
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…
Glenmede adds equity trading to State Street mandate
Glenmede Investment Management L.P., a U.S.-based money manager with USD11bn AuM, has appointed State Street to provide outsourced non-US equity trading and middle office services for GIM’s international equity strategy. This mandate adds to the recently extended investment servicing relationship covering custody, accounting, fund administration and transfer agency solutions for the Glenmede Funds.
GPP adds SGSS to global settlement agent network
GPP, the UK-based clearing, institutional custody and wealth solutions firm, has appointed Société Générale Securities Services, through its subsidiary PAREL, as a settlement agent for its clearing business. The deal will see the SGSS join GPP’s settlement infrastructure alongside GPP’s other agents and its own direct Crest participation.
State Street hires Christian Bongiovanni as EMEA insurance segment head
State Street has appointed Christian Bongiovanni as the regional segment head for insurance in EMEA. Based in Milan, Bongiovanni is responsible for advancing the end-to-end service proposition for the firm’s insurance clients. He reports to Akhil Jain, global head of insurance, and Jörg Ambrosius, head of EMEA. Bongiovanni joins from The Boston Consulting Group, where…
CACEIS and Amundi launch front-to-back service
CACEIS and its sister company, Amundi, have launched a front-to-back solution for asset managers and owners, offering a portfolio management platform (ALTO), dealing services, middle office, custody and fund accounting.
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…
BNY Mellon opens branch in Denmark
BNY Mellon’s European bank, The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, has opened a new branch in Copenhagen, Denmark. Søren Eberhard, who established the Copenhagen representative office in 2008, will become branch manager.
Sands Capital consolidates Irish UCITS admin with Northern Trust
Sands Capital Management, a U.S.-based manager with USD58bn AuM, has selected Northern Trust to provide fund administration, transfer agency, depositary and global custody services for its USD6bn Ireland-domiciled UCITS umbrella fund. The appointment consolidates provision of all asset servicing functions for Sands Capital Funds Plc to Northern Trust. The mandate builds on Northern Trust’s existing…