Nexo, a regulated institution for digital assets, has launched Nexo Prime, a proprietary prime brokerage platform that enables institutional, corporate, and high-net-worth investors to trade, borrow, lend, and securely store their digital assets through a single product. Nexo Prime’s custody framework combines solutions from BitGo, Fireblocks, Ledger Vault, and Fidelity Digital Assets. All digital assets…
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Rathbone signs with Charles River
Rathbone Funds (Rathbone Unit Trust Management Ltd), the UK-based subsidiary of Rathbones Group Plc, has selected the Charles River Investment Management Solution to support its equity, fixed income and multi-asset portfolio management, including managing its securities and investment data on the State Street Alpha Data Platform. Mike Webb, chief executive of Rathbone Unit Trust Management…
BP2S extends broker-to-custody offering
BNP Paribas Securities Services has expanded its broker-to-custody offering and has added Spuerkeess, a Luxembourg-based bank, to the platform. The broker-to-custody solution, which was previously offered only in the U.S. and APAC, is now available across Europe, further to the bank’s recent expansion in equities flow trading in the region. Using BNP Paribas’s open architecture,…
SimCorp & SGSS extend partnership
SimCorp, the Europe-based provider of SaaS investment management solutions, and Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) have extended their partnership until 2028 to promote front-to-back solutions for asset managers. The new contract includes a broad scope of new activities, including additional front office and ESG functionalities for CrossWise, SGSS’s front-to-back integrated suite which leverages SimCorp Dimension’s…
Alpha adds to NatWest mandate
NatWest Trustee and Depositary Services (NWTDS) has expanded its partnership with Alpha Real Capital after being mandated to provide depositary services for its Long Income Funds range, which includes a GBP2.1bn Index Linked Income Fund which invests in portfolios of UK ground rent assets to provide a long-term secure and predictable inflation-linked income stream with…
Al West to step down as SEI CEO
SEI has selected Ryan Hicke, currently executive vice president and chief information officer, to become the company’s next chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors, effective June 1, 2022. Hicke will succeed founder Al West, Jr., who is transitioning to the role of executive chairman after leading and growing SEI for…
FAB appoints country head for KSA
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has appointed Rainer Kasch as managing director and head of Saudi Arabia securities services. Based in Riyadh, Kasch will be responsible for managing FAB Capital’s Saudi direct custody business and developing the securities services franchise with Saudi-based institutions. Kasch joins from Standard Chartered, based in Singapore, where he was managing…
IQ-EQ bolsters APAC client services team
IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based investor services provider, has added to its client services team in Asia. Andréia Prates and Rachael Leung have joined the business as client service directors. Prates joins IQ-EQ’s Singapore office as director, client services. She previously worked for Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Brown Brothers Harriman covering Asia, the Middle East…
Invictus converts crypto funds
Invictus Capital, a Cayman-domiciled manager, has migrated its tokenised crypto funds into a regulated mutual fund structure. All open-ended Invictus funds will now have the same oversight as other regulated mutual funds within the Cayman Islands. The funds will benefit from annual independent external audits and daily verification of fund assets by a licensed third-party…
Circle adds BNY Mellon as reserves custodian
Circle Internet Financial, LLC has appointed BNY Mellon as a primary custodian for USD Coin (USDC) reserves. Circle is an internet finance firm that provides internet-based payments and financial infrastructure and is the sole issuer of USDC. USDC is one of the fastest growing dollar digital currencies in the world, with over USD52bn in circulation…