Category: Product

BNP Paribas Securities Services is using natural language generation (NLG) to help clients with monitoring and oversight of their operations. Along with traditional monthly statistics reports providing in-depth data on their operations, BP2S clients will receive analysis and commentaries on their assets under custody, settlement, corporate actions and income activities. This one-page executive summary, written…

BNY Mellon plans to build a high-performance FX pricing and trading engine in partnership with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The bank will establish new low-latency electronic FX infrastructure in Singapore, helping to improve execution quality and price discovery for clients initially in spot, and subsequently in deliverable and non-deliverable forwards and swaps. This follows…

REYL & Cie, the Swiss bank, has expanded its asset services business line to offer Fund Representation Solutions. This complements the services already on offer for international fund managers by representing foreign collective investments for distribution in Switzerland. The new fund representation solutions team, with Philippe Steffen, head of operations, and Colin Vidal, head of…

Pierre Mottion has joined Clearstream as head of DLT and strategy within the company’s investment fund services business, reporting to Bernard Tancré. He was previously global head of transfer agency and fund distribution product at BNP Paribas Securities Services. Mottion will work closely with FundsDLT, the start-up distribution platform in which Clearstream has a stake.

HSBC Securities Services in India has launched DerivEasy, a web platform that will allow HSBC’s institutional investors to get access to near real-time information on their futures and options trades. DerivEasy aims to simplify the trade validation process, whilst supporting investors in monitoring of margin requirements on existing and prospective trades, collateral utilisation, and position…

Northern Trust has struck an alliance with BlackRock to deliver operations, data, and servicing capabilities to mutual clients. These new capabilities, delivered through Aladdin, BlackRock’s investment management and operations platform, aims to provide clients with increased efficiency, interoperability and transparency across the back, middle and front office. The relationship with BlackRock currently supports mutual clients…

J.P. Morgan Securities Services and Bloomberg have formed an alliance that brings together Bloomberg AIM, an investment and order management system, with J.P. Morgan’s back-office technology. The offering is now live and in production with the first joint client and is being made available to other buy-side clients.

Kingdom Trust, a South Dakota-based custodian bank that has >USD13bn AuC, has launched a retirement account that supports legacy, alternative, and crypto assets. The launch of the account – Choice – follows the acquisition of Choice Holdings, a digital asset-focused retirement account provider. Kingdom Trust already backs more than 100,000 retirement accounts and provides custody…

FundRock, the Luxembourg-based third-party ManCo and AIFM, has launched a new unbundled service to assist asset management firms with liquidity management. The service is available to EU and non- EU asset managers managing EU funds for which FundRock is not acting as ManCo/AIFM. Its launch comes as regulators prepare to implement new guidelines for liquidity…

Citco, a provider of asset servicing solutions to the alternative investment industry, has partnered with securities class action recovery service provider, Financial Recovery Technologies. FRT works with over 800 firms to help institutional investors monitor litigations, identify eligibility, file claims and collect funds made available in shareholder class action, global and antitrust settlements. Through this…