Year: 2026

Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) Limited, together with Citi’s investor services unit and OSL Group, have launched a tokenised unit class for the Global X HSCEI Covered Call Active ETF (3416), marking the first covered call ETF in Hong Kong to introduce a tokenised unit class.

Ireland and Luxembourg can peacefully co-exist. There’s plenty of pie to go around. With the news that Pat Lardner, who has led Irish Funds since 2012, is stepping down, it is timely to look at the state of the offshore centres of Luxembourg and Ireland. Lardner, who took over from Gary Palmer, inherited an organisation…

First Sentier Group has appointed Northern Trust as fund administrator and depositary for its Irish fund, the First Sentier Investors Global Umbrella Fund Plc. Northern Trust will provide custody, depositary, fund accounting and transfer agency for the USD14bn Irish fund structure.

TMF Group, a Netherlands-based provider of global administrative and compliance services, is to acquire Navigator Partners, a Finland-based provider of fund and investor administration, corporate and foundation management services. Headquartered in Helsinki, Navigator Partners provides services including fund administration, accounting and reporting, payroll services, property management administration, foundation administration, and tax compliance services. The business…

Citi has launched Custody+, a suite of near- and real-time solutions to meet always-on industry demand. The announcement comes as the bank completes the U.S. rollout of its patented Single Event Processing (SEP) technology, a milestone in the transformation of its custody infrastructure. Custody+ will process every asset servicing transaction through a single seamless flow…

Pirum, the fintech specialising in securities finance and collateral management, has hired Jennifer Falco to strengthen its North American operations. Falco joins from HSBC, where she spent nearly seven years as an equity finance and Delta One sales specialist in New York.

Aegon Asset Management has expanded its longstanding relationship with Citi with a USD380bn middle office mandate. Citi has added performance measurement and accounting services to its offerings on the Aladdin platform, extending the breadth of its middle office offering to include full IBOR services, trade management and settlement and performance measurement via Aladdin Accounting. The…

Northern Trust has expanded its relationship with First Sentier Group, being appointed as fund administrator for First Sentier Investors Global Growth Funds, a Singapore unit trust offering. Under the mandate, Northern Trust will provide custody, fund accounting and transfer agency services. The move represents an expansion of a broader global relationship which began in 2006.