Northern Trust has launched an enhanced liquidity management data tool on its Front Office Solutions platform. The web-based tool gives asset owners with significant allocations to private market assets better control over their liquidity through unified and customised reporting. The web-based liquidity management module offers users a comprehensive view of their portfolio’s liquidity based on…
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Northern Trust wins Kuwait mandate
Northern Trust has been appointed by Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) to provide a range of asset servicing solutions covering global custody, financial reporting, securities finance, private equity administration, performance measurement and compliance monitoring. AFESD, based in Kuwait, is a regional financial institution focused on funding economic and social development by financing…
Northern Trust combines digital and traditional asset services
Northern Trust has established a digital assets and financial markets group, led by Justin Chapman, currently global head of market advocacy, innovation and research. The new group combines the teams responsible for supporting digital asset markets and the traditional network management teams.
Northern Trust wins UK investment trust mandate
Northern Trust has been appointed to provide global custody, fund accounting, depositary services and its outsourced trading service, Integrated Trading Solutions, to International Biotechnology Trust and its investment manager, SV Health Managers. Founded in 1994, International Biotechnology Trust is a UK investment trust that is traded on the London Stock Exchange. Its objective is to…
Northern Trust appoints vice chairmen
Northern Trust has appointed two vice chairmen. Longtime Northern Trust leaders Dave Blowers, president of national services in wealth management, and Lyle Logan, managing director, financial institutions group, have been named as vice chairmen. Their responsibilities include key strategic initiatives and the development of select clients and prospects globally. Blowers continues to report to wealth…
Wilmington Trust selects Northern Trust for CIT servicing
Northern Trust has been selected by Wilmington Trust, N.A. to provide custody, fund accounting, fund administration, fund-of-fund administration, and transfer agency services for collective investment trust (CIT) funds with approximately USD90bn in total balances. Rob Barnett, EVP and head of intermediary sales at Wilmington Trust, said: “CITs continue to be an increasingly popular investment vehicle…
Northern Trust hires CX specialist
Northern Trust has hired Andrea Istwan as head of client experience (CX) for the asset owners, Americas segment. She joins from Envestnet.
Zodia hires head of sales
Richard Clark has joined Zodia Custody as head of sales & partnerships. Zodia Custody, which is registered in the UK by the FCA as a crypto asset business, is owned by Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust. Clark previously spent 15 years at Merrill Lynch.
Northern Trust makes senior management changes
Northern Trust has appointed John Turney as global head of Front Office Solutions. Turney, who has led the foreign exchange business (GFX) since 2018, reports to Melanie Pickett, head of asset owners, Americas. Marisa Kurk replaces him as head of GFX. Kurk joined Northern Trust as chief operating officer for GFX in 2019 and was…
Northern Trust teams up with Commcise
Northern Trust has enhanced the commission management process for its Integrated Trading Solutions clients through a collaboration with Commcise, a provider of cloud-based software solutions, including commission management and aggregation services, research valuation, consumption tracking and share-of-wallet reporting. The Commcise platform provides managers with automated soft dollar reconciliation, invoice/contract management, commission targeting, broker voting, commission…