JTC, the C.I.-based provider of fund and corporate services, is to acquire perfORM Due Diligence Services (perfORM), a UK-based provider of due diligence services to a diverse base of UK and international asset allocators and investment managers. Launched in 2019, perfORM was set up as an operational due diligence (ODD) business to provide solutions to…

State Street has closed the first transaction within its peer-to-peer repo program following its launch earlier this year. The trade was executed between a large asset owner and a non-traditional investment manager. The program seeks to facilitate overnight and term repo trading between buy-side counterparties, including traditional and non-traditional asset managers, asset owners, insurers, corporates,…

BNP Paribas Securities Services has signed a strategic partnership with Van Lanschot Kempen (VLK) which includes two new mandates covering EUR16bn in assets (USD18.5bn). VLK is a Netherlands-based specialist independent wealth manager. As part of this partnership, BP2S will provide Kempen Capital Management, the asset management arm of VLK, with global custody, depositary bank, fund…

Chris Cox has been appointed as global head of trade and working capital solutions in Citi’s treasury & trade solutions group (TTS). He will report to Shahmir Khaliq, global head, treasury and trade solutions, based in London. Cox is currently the global head of data, digital & strategic programs for securities services, EMEA head of…

State Street has been appointed to provide custody services to the Digital Securities Depository Corporation (DSDC). DSDC operates a cross-border securities settlement infrastructure with third-party regulated financial institutions to create, issue and service digital depositary receipts (DDRs) in the US public market. The securities underlying the DDRs will include the non-US listed equity securities DSDC…

JTC Americas (formerly NES Financial) has entered into an agreement with the Darwin Metals Mining Opportunity Zone (OZ) Fund to provide fund administration services related to the reopening of a Californian mining district. Javelin Securities, LLC, a registered broker/dealer focused on vetting and raising capital OZs, has been retained to raise capital for the Darwin…