BNY Mellon has established an Asia Pacific Advisory Council. The council will provide insights and guidance to BNY Mellon’s leadership team as they accelerate momentum in some of the region’s fastest growing markets. The founding members, each of whom brings extensive experience as a central banker, practitioner or policymaker, include: Eiji Hirano, Director and Vice…
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CACEIS creates Digital Assets Factory
Following its decision to develop its digital asset servicing business with Taurus, CACEIS has created a Digital Assets Factory, which brings together all business lines – custody, investment management services, 3D (digital, data, dissemination), and support functions, product development, compliance, legal and public affairs. A first MVP (minimum viable product) for custody is currently being…
McGettigan joins BNY Mellon in Ireland
Dan McGettigan has joined BNY Mellon in Ireland as director, relationship management. He previously spent 14 years at State Street, most recently as a client relationship manager.
Skeels joins SS&C
Justin Skeels has joined SS&C as director of business development, based in Boston. He joins from BNY Mellon, where he spent nearly five years.
BP2S selects Fireblocks & METACO to develop digital asset custody capabilities
BNP Paribas Securities Services has selected two fintechs – Fireblocks and METACO – to develop its digital asset custody offering and help clients issue, transfer and safekeep regulated digital assets. BP2S has selected Fireblocks as its hot wallet, tokenisation, and connectivity infrastructure layer. As a first step, BP2S will use Fireblocks’ solution in its ongoing…
Border to Coast appoints Northern Trust for RE business
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has selected Northern Trust as its third-party administrator and depositary to support its future real estate investment management capabilities. Northern Trust will deliver fund accounting, custody services and investment operations support for the real estate capability, alongside depositary services. The new real estate business will see two global indirect property…
BNY Mellon and Goldman Sachs settle first HQLAᵡ agency securities lending trades
BNY Mellon and Goldman Sachs have successfully completed the industry’s first agency securities lending transactions using the HQLAᵡ distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. As part of the combined series of 35-day term transactions, HQLAᵡ created ISIN-level securities trackers called digital collateral records (DCRs) from loaned securities it received from BNY Mellon, giving Goldman Sachs a…
BNY Mellon hires JPMC veteran as global head of consultant relations
Josh Lavender has joined BNY Mellon as global head of consultant relations for securities services & digital, based in the U.S. Lavender spent over 13 years at JPMorgan Chase, most recently as head of U.S. asset owner consultant relations for the securities services business.
BNY Mellon hires again from BBH
BNY Mellon has hired Nat Watson as a senior relationship manager within the banks, broker dealers and insurance segment, based in Boston. Watson previously spent 12 years at BBH.
AuC falls at J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan has reported an 11pct YoY drop in AuC, from USD32.1trn to USD28.6trn. Securities services revenue rose by 6pct compared to 2Q21.