Category: Capital Markets

Nordnet AB, the pan-Nordic digital platform for savings and investments, is the first Swedish client to start lending through Citi’s Securities Lending Access platform. The solution will enable Nordnet to expand its securities lending programme to new markets and new client segments. Citi Securities Lending Access is an end-to-end solution that digitises and automates the…

Pirum, the UK fintech specialising in securities finance and collateral management, has extended its CoacsConnect network and enhanced functionality to fully automate income claims. CoacsConnect’s automated income claims service has 20 financial institutions automatically distributing, matching and paying income claims. The service enhancements allow the counterparts to receive fully automated status updates, exchange payment instructions…

Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), the development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, has appointed BNP Paribas’s securities services business as agent lender for its USD1.3bn portfolio. In 2020, BNP Paribas supported the issuance of CAF’s Covid-19 recovery bond, and the selection comes as a result of a long-standing relationship between BNP Paribas and…

Pirum, the UK-based fintech, has hired Graeme Perry as business development representative. Based in London, Perry will report locally to Karl Wyborn, CCO. Previously, he spent 14 years with BNP Paribas’ securities services business, where his most recent role was director of trading strategy and relationships and head of agency lending trading EMEA.

State Street has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CF Global Trading, a firm specialising in outsourced trading on an agency basis for a variety of asset classes including equities, listed derivatives and fixed income. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2023, subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms…

State Street has hired Taryn Siglain as global head of enhanced custody, its principal securities lending program. Siglain will report to Gino Timperio, global head of financing solutions for the global markets business. Siglain was most recently at Morgan Stanley where she held a variety of leadership roles, including head of Americas secured funding trading…

Brown Brothers Harriman has appointed three new general partners: Thomas Davis (private banking), Christopher Gothard (investor services), and Justin Reed (private banking). Based in London, Gothard is taking on responsibility for the global markets group within the investor services division, including the FX and securities lending businesses.

The London Stock Exchange Group’s FXall business has struck a deal with Saphyre to digitise account onboarding for FXall clients through Saphyre’s AI technology, which allows liquidity providers to systematically approve accounts. The Saphyre technology is validated and live for a subset of clients of FXall, with plans for rollout to all FXall clients in…