BNY Mellon in Ireland has been appointed as custodian and administrator for Grayscale’s first European ETF, launched through the HANetf platform, for which BNY Mellon provides custody and administration. The Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (GFOF) will list on the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana and will be available to investors…

K2 Asset Management has appointed State Street Australia Limited as the fund administrator and custodian in Australia for the Cosmos Purpose Bitcoin Access ETF (Cboe: CBTC), Australia’s first cryptocurrency ETF ultimately backed by physically settled Bitcoin. CBTC’s underlying asset is the Purpose Bitcoin ETF which is managed by Purpose Investments and quoted on the Toronto…

BNY Mellon has participated in a Series F financing round for Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, which has raised USD170m, bringing its valuation to USD8.6bn. Chainalysis provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies in over 70 countries. The data powers investigation, compliance, and market intelligence…

IQ-EQ has appointed Matt Haynes as global head of business intermediaries & partners. Haynes spent eight years as group business development director. In his new role, he will lead a number of strategic relationships and a group-wide strategy to build upon the relationships IQ-EQ has with business partners and intermediaries globally. He will report directly…

CIBC Mellon has been awarded a 10-year mandate to provide asset servicing and digital solutions to Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan (CAAT) and its DBplus offering. CIBC Mellon and its partners, CIBC and BNY Mellon, will provide investment and pension servicing solutions to CAAT, including custody, accounting, securities lending, foreign exchange processing…

Northern Trust has announced two fintech collaborations. First, it has established a relationship with Enfusion, a U.S.-based provider of cloud-native investment management software and services, to provide portfolio management, order and execution management system, and analytics capabilities to mutual clients. Through this collaboration, Enfusion and Northern Trust will offer asset manager, hedge fund and internally…

J.P. Morgan’s securities services business has launched Fusion, a data platform that delivers end-to-end data management and reporting solutions for institutional investors. Fusion will allow clients to integrate and combine data from multiple sources into a single data model that delivers the benefits of scale and reduced costs, along with the ability to more easily…