Aztec Group has appointed Sam Metland as its new head of product and propositions. He joins from Citco, where he held roles including head of private equity product and, most recently, head of solutions engineering. Prior to this, he held senior product and strategy roles at J.P. Morgan and Brown Brothers Harriman.
Category: BBH
BBH upgrades InfoAction
BBH has launched an enhanced version of InfoAction, a corporate actions SaaS workflow solution for asset managers and financial institutions. Built on BBH’s Infomediary Data Solutions platform, InfoAction automates the event notification and response process, enabling efficient tracking and management of the entire corporate actions workflow and providing a golden record of data. The latest…
CACEIS hires ETF specialist from BBH
Eamonn O’Callaghan has joined CACEIS as ETF group product manager, based in Ireland. He has 25 years’ experience within the financial services industry, most of which has been working with ETF issuers. He previously held the position of head of European ETF product with Brown Brothers Harriman and prior to this worked with BNY, HSBC…
BBH wins SRI fund mandate
BBH has been selected by New Alternatives Fund to provide custody services. The U.S.-based manager is a socially responsible mutual fund focused on renewable energy and the environment.
BBH wins Chilean mandate
Brown Brothers Harriman has been appointed to provide custody and fund order services for Compañia de Seguros Confuturo SA, a Chilean insurance company with USD2bn in assets abroad. In Latin America, BBH has supported pension funds, banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and third-party fund distributors in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru for almost 30 years.
Euroclear adopts BBH API
Euroclear has adopted the BBH account opening API. Account opening requests and confirmations can now be sent electronically between BBH and Euroclear using the API, resulting in faster account opening times and a more scalable process for the platform. This reduces the time it takes to get money flowing into funds, giving the end investor…
BBH and MUFG sign sec lending deal
Brown Brothers Harriman has entered into an arrangement with MUFG Investor Services, a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB), under Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc, for the provision of enhanced securities lending services to BBH’s asset manager and financial institutions clients globally. BBH clients will benefit from an enhanced securities lending product…
Euroclear connects with BBH
BBH has partnered with Euroclear to provide SWIFT message transformation and network connectivity for its new bilateral repo service. To effectively communicate with custodians across inter-dealer markets, Euroclear is deploying BBH Infomediary Data Solutions, a set of data management capabilities that help financial institutions overcome their operating model challenges across their network of providers. The…
Senior BBH exec joins SimCorp
SimCorp, the fintech owned by Deutsche Börse, has appointed Keith Haberlin as global head of business services, sales. Based in Boston, Haberlin joins from BBH, where he was co-head of Infomediary Data Solutions.
BBH simplifies account opening
BBH has connected its API solution with Clearstream to simplify the account opening process for investors. The connection allows account opening requests to be sent electronically between BBH and Clearstream by transmitting investor information over the API, reducing manual processing risks and improving efficiency of the onboarding experience.