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Northern Trust has expanded its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) middle office services for institutional clients. The addition of compliance indenture monitoring and waterfall calculation capabilities to its Omnium platform builds on Northern Trust’s existing outsourced middle office functions for structured debt, which include loan closing, treasury and real-time data shares. The new capabilities provide a…

BNP Paribas Asset Management has issued a tokenised share class of an existing French-domiciled money market fund, recorded on public blockchain infrastructure. The initiative relies on a permissioned access model on Ethereum, restricting holding and transfers to authorised participants within a regulated framework. BNP Paribas’ securities services business acted as transfer agent and fund dealing services…

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. and AllianceBernstein L.P. have selected SimCorp as their core investment technology partner. In 2024, AB expanded its relationship with BBH by adding to its data management services for fund operations.

Bain Capital Credit has appointed Alter Domus to provide CLO middle- and back-office services and bank loan settlement services for its global liquid and structured credit portfolios valued at more than USD30bn. Under the mandate, Alter Domus will deliver middle and back-office solutions, including loan administration and loan trade settlement for Bain Capital Credit’s portfolios.…

Euroclear has launched a U.S. Treasury DVP repo service. The new solution is designed for U.S. Treasury repo market participants operating in the U.S. settling USD transactions. The first trade was completed between Euroclear Bank and Toronto Dominion Bank London. The service offers cash lenders similar operational efficiency for DVP repo transactions as triparty repo…

Centralis Group, the Luxembourg-based alternative asset and corporate services provider, has acquired PINE Advisor Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of compliance, fund officer, and distribution services to asset managers. PINE acts as a distributor for >USD25bn in ETF assets and provides outsourced chief compliance officer and principal financial officer services for U.S. registered funds. PINE also…