Citi has been awarded the mandate to provide ETF services for the full fund range of FinEx ETF, Russia’s first ETF issuer. Under the agreement, Citi will service FinEx’s 13 ETFs, coveringUSD600m in assets. Citi will provide a range of services across custody, fund administration and basket services, as well as distribution support through Citi…
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TMF hires Kwame Lewis to head NA fund services
TMF Group, a UK-based professional services firm, has appointed Kwame Lewis as head of fund services for North America. Previously Lewis was chief financial officer for ACON Investments, a middle-market buyout private equity manager. Lewis will report to Andrew O’Shea, global head of fund services, and to Jan Willem van Drimmelen, market head for North…
BNY Mellon hires Laura Steinbach as head of Americas IM sales
BNY Mellon has hired Laura Steinbach from State Street as head of investment managers sales in the Americas for its asset servicing business, based in New York. She reports to Jane Mancini, global co-head of asset servicing sales. At State Street, she was responsible for business development with global investment managers.
PAAMC mandates HSBC in Lux to service first UCITS umbrella fund
HSBC Luxembourg has been appointed by Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. to act as central administrator, depositary/trustee, transfer agent and custodian for its first UCITS umbrella fund, comprised initially of four sub-funds. In 2018 HSBC was appointed to service PAAMC’s first reserved alternative investment fund (RAIF) umbrella. The partnership with…
Citi to service Dimensional’s new ETF range
Citi has made a major breakthrough in the U.S. ETF sector with a mandate from Dimensional Fund Advisors to act as fund administrator, custodian, and transfer agent for three new actively managed ETFs. Dimensional, a U.S.-based manager with >USD500bn AuM, announced its plans to launch these funds in June 2020. Citi has a longstanding relationship…
BNP Paribas and Allfunds complete agreement
A year after announcing the deal, BNP Paribas and Allfunds have finally completed their strategic agreement. As part of this partnership, BNP Paribas Securities Services will give its fund-buyer clients access to more than 2,000 fund houses and 100,000 funds and a range of fund analytics services from its new Fund@ccess platform, which is powered…
StanChart announces new FSS management team
Standard Chartered has announced its senior management team for the financing and securities services unit under the joint leadership of Margaret Harwood-Jones and Emmanuel Ramambason. Highlights include: Francois Verlaine – Regional Head, FSS, ASEAN & South Asia Simon Kellaway – Regional Head, FSS, Greater China & North Asia Luke Brereton – Global Head, FSS Sales…
Clearstream completes majority purchase of Fondcenter from UBS
Clearstream has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in UBS’s fund distribution platform, Fondcenter AG. Clearstream and UBS signed an agreement under which Clearstream has now acquired a 51.2pct stake in Fondcenter for CHF389m. Clearstream will combine the Fondcenter business with its existing Fund Desk, forming Clearstream Fund Centre, a global fund distribution support…
Finomial launches e-subscription service for alt funds
Finomial, a client lifecycle management platform, has launched Finomial Electronic Subscriptions to digitise the manual subscription process. With this product, Finomial claims to offer a complete solution for alternative investment managers and their fund administrators, including investor compliance, on-boarding, capital activity, collaboration, and regulatory reporting to global authorities. The service provides investors with an easy-to-use,…
Northern Trust launches portal for Canadian benefit plan participants
Northern Trust Canada has launched an online portal, Benefit Payment Participant Passport, enabling advanced automation for participants of Canadian benefit plans. The portal allows pension and benefit plan participants to access their program information in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in French or English. The self-service option supplements mailings, call…