Christelle Ybanez has been appointed head of global relationship management for the securities services business of BNP Paribas. Based in Paris, she is responsible for the global relationship management team servicing its largest securities services’ clients headquartered in France. Ybanez was previously head of asset owners & managers strategy & planning. She has been with…
Year: 2022
Taskize leverages APIs for query resolution
Taskize, the Euroclear-owned provider of inter-company workflow solutions to the financial services industry, has launched new functionality to automatically distribute data offered through the APIs of financial institutions to enable faster resolution of operational queries and disputes. With integration to the Taskize ecosystem, firms can realise the value of their existing APIs to service their…
HSBC facilitates first QFI derivatives trades in China
HSBC has facilitated a number of market firsts following China’s progressive opening of its onshore derivative markets to qualified foreign investors (QFIs). On 11 October, HSBC facilitated the first commodities futures trade in the market. The trade was placed by a QFI hedge fund, which has been actively investing in China and using HSBC as…
Franklin Templeton to deploy Saphyre
Franklin Templeton has agreed to use the Saphyre platform for custodial and broker fund onboardings, as well as maintenance. Saphyre is a U.S.-based fintech company using AI technology to solve pre-trade setups and post-trade issues.
IQ-EQ appoints ESG director
IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based administrator, has appointed Lyons O’Keeffe to the newly created position of ESG director. He will be responsible for driving forward the next phase of IQ-EQ’s ESG service offering for clients, including enhanced ESG reporting and supporting clients with launching new ESG strategies, particularly across alternative asset classes. He joins from Legal &…
BNY Mellon launches digital asset custody platform
BNY Mellon has gone live with its digital asset custody platform in the U.S. This will enable select clients to hold and transfer bitcoin and ether. BNY Mellon has been working closely with market-leading fintechs and tapped digital asset technology specialists Fireblocks and Chainalysis to integrate their technology to meet the present and future security…
BNP Paribas to support Fineco’s ETF range
BNP Paribas has been selected by Fineco Asset Management (FAM) to provide a full range of banking services for its equities and fixed income ETFs listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. FAM, an Irish UCITS management company wholly owned by Italian bank FinecoBank S.p.A., has entered the ETF market with a range of Ireland-domiciled funds.…
Polar Capital expands relationship with Northern Trust
Northern Trust has been appointed by Polar Capital to provide global custody, depositary, transfer agency, fund accounting and currency management services to the Melchior Selected Trust. Domiciled in Luxembourg, Polar Capital’s Melchior Selected Trust was launched in 2010 and is comprised of the Melchior Absolute Return Fund, European Opportunities Fund and Global Equity Fund. All…
BNY Mellon appoints head of global client management
BNY Mellon has hired Ed Fandrey as head of global client management. Based in New York, he will report to Akash Shah, BNY Mellon’s chief growth officer. He was most recently president of national sales and marketing at LPL Financial, a retail investment advisory firm, and previously spent two decades at Microsoft, latterly as vice…
Sanlam consolidates with SS&C
Sanlam Life Insurance Limited, a member of the Sanlam Limited Insurance Group, the largest non-banking financial services group in Africa, and one of the largest life assurers in South Africa, has chosen SS&C to provide end-to-end capabilities to administer a broad range of multi-asset, multi-region product types for their individual retail investors. Glacier Financial Solutions…