Less than a year after the creation of its equities and securities services business, Citi has decided to refine the senior management structure. There will now be two leaders, a global head of equities and a global head of securities services. The latter will be run by Okan Pekin, covering custody and fund services, direct…
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Citi spins off Proxymity into industry-owned utility
Proxymity, the digital investor communications platform developed within Citi‘s investor services business, has raised USD20.5m from eight market participants and will become a global, industry-led consortium. The consortium is comprised of BNY Mellon, Citi, Clearstream, Computershare, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and State Street. The Proxymity team will be based in London, with a technology…
Citi hires Chay Thurlow to head global custody operations
Citi has appointed Chay Thurlow as global head of custody operations. Based in London, he reports to Brian Ovaert, global head of securities services & issuer services operations. He joins from Deutsche Bank, where he spent more than 10 years, most recently as the head of securities and trust & agency operations. He fills the…
Citi appoints Larissa Sototskaya to head Lux custody & fund services
Citi has appointed Larissa Sototskaya as the Head of Luxembourg custody and fund services (CFS). She will report to Pervaiz Panjwani, EMEA head of custody and fund services, and locally to Alberta Brusi, Luxembourg country head. She joined Citi in 2010 and most recently led global client service across the securities services franchise. The post…
Citi and RBC sign client transfer agreement for Australia
Citi has finalised a client transfer agreement with RBC Investor & Treasury Services in Australia. The announcement follows Citi and RBC signing a memorandum of understanding in November 2019, with the intent to facilitate an orderly transfer of the RBC client base to Citi over a 12-24 month period. The transaction will enable Citi’s securities…
Citi’s Proxymity voting platform rolled out in Australia
Proxymity, Citi’s end-to-end proxy voting platform that directly connects the issuer and investor, has been rolled out in Australia. In collaboration with Computershare, Proxymity was deployed for 561 Australian shareholder meetings with votes covering AUSD86bn (USD58bn) of shares. The platform recorded vote transmission times of as low as 27.5 seconds for European investors that voted…
RBC Investor Services to exit Australia, signs MoU with Citi
Citi has signed a memorandum of understanding with RBC in Australia that gives Citi the right to negotiate with RBC’s clients following the Canadian bank’s decision to withdraw from the investor services business in the country. RBC has been in Australia since 2001, when it acquired Perpetual Fund Services, and as recently as this year…
Citi hires Joerg Guenther as global head of sec services IT
Citi has appointed Joerg Guenther as global head of securities services & issuer technology. He will take responsibility for the technology teams supporting custody and fund services, direct custody & clearing, securities services data, quality assurance, and issuer technology, reporting directly to Mike Healy, global head of technology for equities & securities services. Prior to…
Victory appoints Citi for additional USD80bn of USAA assets
Citi has been appointed by Victory Capital to provide fund administration, custody, ETF services and securities lending for Victory’s most recent acquisition, USAA Asset Management. The new mandate resulted in the transfer of servicing for 53 mutual funds and ETFs to Citi, representing approximately USD80bn in assets. This new mandate expands Citi’s existing relationship with…
Citi launches multi-slot IBOR solution
Citi has upgraded its Investment Book of Record (IBOR) data delivery service to support middle office clients operating across multiple trading cycles. The ‘multi-slot’ IBOR solution can be customised to meet the operational needs of individual clients across their front office locations in various regions, particularly informing start-of-day trading positions and cash forecasts globally. The…