BNP Paribas Securities Services has upgraded its triparty collateral management service to support synthetic securitisation and collateralised note structures, bringing greater operational efficiency and protection to those structures. The service will enable the proceeds of notes issuance to be transformed through securities finance transactions – or a cash loan secured with securities – efficiently and…
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State Street adds convertibles for P2P lending
State Street has expanded its peer-to-peer securities finance product, Direct Access Lending, which enables direct, principal loans between its lending and borrowing clients. It now enables borrowers to post U.S. convertible bonds as collateral to facilitate the participation of new clients and strategies. The same operational support provided for equity-for-equity loans in Direct Access Lending…
Milestone launches fair value control solution
Milestone Group, the fintech firm owned by BNY Mellon, has launched a new Fair Value Control solution. This new solution is for teams responsible for the administration and compliance of the fair value process and ensuring that funds’ securities are correctly valued in accordance with policy. This solution leverages the pControl funds platform that currently…
HSBC launches multilateral provider platform
HSBC has launched HSBC MarketSpace, a platform that enables clients to access post-trade services and solutions from HSBC and third-party service providers. Users can choose and connect seamlessly to their preferred service providers, with the ability to select products and services best suited to their needs. Instead of having to establish and maintain a complex…
BNY Mellon expands Custody FX service
BNY Mellon is expanding its Custody FX offering, adding new trading capabilities and evolving from a primarily custody-focused service model into a transparent open architecture that can be leveraged by a variety of client types for their rules-based, end-to-end transaction needs. Effective immediately, clients in the FX trading programs can customise how they trade currencies…
Harbor Capital Advisors appoints State Street for ETF servicing
State Street has been appointed as the servicing agent for Harbor Capital Advisors’ first actively managed fully transparent fixed income ETFs, launched in September in the U.S. The two funds are the Harbor Scientific Alpha Income ETF (SIFI), and the Harbor Scientific Alpha High-Yield ETF (SIHY). State Street will provide various ETF servicing solutions, including…
AssetMetrix opens in Lux
AssetMetrix, the Germany-based fintech in which BNP Paribas has a strategic stake, has opened an office in Luxembourg. Alexander Wedlich has joined AssetMetrix as head of business development for Luxembourg, Belgium and France. Wedlich has worked at Credit Suisse, RBC, CACEIS, Clearstream Banking and BNY Mellon.
John Lehner joins FundGuard as president
FundGuard, the U.S./Israel AI-powered investment management and asset servicing enterprise SaaS platform, has appointed John Lehner as president. Lehner, who previously served as global head of State Street’s investment manager services unit and CEO of BNY Mellon Technology Solutions, is responsible for driving the firm’s go-to-market strategy and client-facing activities including broader expansion globally, onboarding…
U.S. Bank launches cryptocurrency custody service
U.S. Bank has launched its cryptocurrency custody service, targeted at institutional investment managers with private funds in the U.S. and/or Cayman looking for a safekeeping solution for Bitcoin, with additional coin support to follow. NYDIG, a technology and financial services company dedicated to Bitcoin, is the first crypto sub-custodian appointed in the bank’s network of…
Citi to administer first OFC for BEA Union Investment
Citi has been appointed by BEA Union Investment Management Limited as fund custodian and administrator for its first mutual fund restructure, converting five funds into an open-ended fund company (OFC). Citi has been providing custody and fund services, including fund accounting, transfer agency and FX share class hedging, to BEA Union Investment since 2013. Eleanor…