CACEIS has been appointed by the UK’s Bedfordshire Pension Fund to provide custody, fund accounting and performance measurement services for its GBP2.9bn (USD3.2bn) of assets.
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HSBC selects Clearstream for fund processing
HSBC has chosen Clearstream, Deutsche Börse’s post-trading service provider, as its global partner for administering investment fund activities for fund order routing, safekeeping, settlement and distribution support. Vestima, Clearstream’s investment fund processing infrastructure, enables processing of all types of funds – from mutual funds to hedge funds, private equity and ETFs – on a single…
State Street adds FundGuard to Alpha platform
State Street has selected FundGuard to deliver a strategic accounting solution for State Street Alpha. FundGuard is a scalable cloud-native investment accounting, fund accounting, and contingency NAV solution. The FundGuard accounting solution will be integrated for STP from portfolio management and trading in the Charles River Investment Management Solution through to custody and administration. A…
HQLAx pioneers cross-DLT repo trade
HQLAᵡ, J.P. Morgan, Ownera and Wematch have successfully tested the technical feasibility of executing a DvP repo transaction across two different DLT platforms at HQLAᵡ and J.P. Morgan. The test showed how rights to securities, recorded in digital collateral records (DCRs) on the HQLAᵡ ledger, and digital cash, recorded at J.P. Morgan, could be recorded…
BNY Mellon and Pirum launch optimisation service
BNY Mellon and Pirum, a fintech specialising in trading markets, have launched a joint optimisation service to offer collateral providers margining, risk management and inventory management to drive improved risk/return outcomes. The solution, ECPOConnect, combines BNY Mellon’s collateral management service, ECPO, which optimises more than USD4trn in assets globally, with Pirum’s CollateralConnect platform, a SaaS…
CIBC Mellon supports new Van Berkom fund
Van Berkom and Associates has launched its new Global Small Cap Strategy, a pooled fund. Founded in 1991, Van Berkom is a small cap specialist investment firm held 100pct by its employees. Van Berkom manages Canadian, U.S, Greater China and global strategies. As of June 30, 2022, Van Berkom and its Hong Kong affiliate had…
Teschner to retire from BNY Mellon
Charles Teschner, co-CEO of BNY Mellon’s data & platform solutions business, is to retire at the end of October. Teschner, who joined in 2019 from BCG, was instrumental in advancing the bank’s data strategy and implementation. Mark McKeon, his co-CEO, will continue in that role. In a statement, BNY Mellon said: “BNY Mellon thanks Charles…
Gorman steps down from U.S. Bank
Linda Gorman has stepped down from her role as CEO of U.S. Bank Global Fund Services – Europe. She joined U.S. Bank following its acquisition of Quintillion in 2013. Gorman will be replaced by Ken Somerville, currently COO.
Paradise for J.P. Morgan
Johnny Paradise has joined J.P. Morgan as a VP, securities services sales, asset manager sector, Europe. He is based in Dublin. He previously spent five years at HSBC in the securities services business.
Clearstream hires from Citi
Marcus Austin has joined Clearstream as head of sales & relationship management for UK, Ireland & the Americas. Austin joins from Citi, where he spent 21 years. He will be based in the UK.