Citi has announced some senior management changes in Europe: Alex Todd has been appointed head of securities services for Europe. He will report to Maria Cantillon, EMEA head of securities services sales, Kristen Braden, and Bryan Murphy, global head of bank sales. He will continue in his role as EMEA head of bank sales. He…
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Two join BNY Mellon from BBH
Meaghan Lee has joined BNY Mellon as a vice president in the relationship management team, based in Boston. She was previously at BBH. Michael Prisco, also formerly of BBH, has joined BNY Mellon as a director.
BNY Mellon to administer new Grayscale European ETF
BNY Mellon in Ireland has been appointed as custodian and administrator for Grayscale’s first European ETF, launched through the HANetf platform, for which BNY Mellon provides custody and administration. The Grayscale Future of Finance UCITS ETF (GFOF) will list on the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse and Borsa Italiana and will be available to investors…
State Street to administer crypto ETF in Australia
K2 Asset Management has appointed State Street Australia Limited as the fund administrator and custodian in Australia for the Cosmos Purpose Bitcoin Access ETF (Cboe: CBTC), Australia’s first cryptocurrency ETF ultimately backed by physically settled Bitcoin. CBTC’s underlying asset is the Purpose Bitcoin ETF which is managed by Purpose Investments and quoted on the Toronto…
BNY Mellon invests in Chainalysis
BNY Mellon has participated in a Series F financing round for Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, which has raised USD170m, bringing its valuation to USD8.6bn. Chainalysis provides data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies in over 70 countries. The data powers investigation, compliance, and market intelligence…
CIBC Mellon wins 10-year mandate from CAAT
CIBC Mellon has been awarded a 10-year mandate to provide asset servicing and digital solutions to Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan (CAAT) and its DBplus offering. CIBC Mellon and its partners, CIBC and BNY Mellon, will provide investment and pension servicing solutions to CAAT, including custody, accounting, securities lending, foreign exchange processing…
Northern Trust partners with Enfusion, Fenergo
Northern Trust has announced two fintech collaborations. First, it has established a relationship with Enfusion, a U.S.-based provider of cloud-native investment management software and services, to provide portfolio management, order and execution management system, and analytics capabilities to mutual clients. Through this collaboration, Enfusion and Northern Trust will offer asset manager, hedge fund and internally…
J.P. Morgan launches data platform
J.P. Morgan’s securities services business has launched Fusion, a data platform that delivers end-to-end data management and reporting solutions for institutional investors. Fusion will allow clients to integrate and combine data from multiple sources into a single data model that delivers the benefits of scale and reduced costs, along with the ability to more easily…
MUFG appoints head of new Cyprus office
MUFG Investor Services has appointed Yannis Matsis as managing director and head of the Cyprus office, the firm’s new operational centre located in Limassol, Cyprus. Matsis will be responsible for oversight of the firm’s local asset servicing footprint, growth within the local Cypriot market, and business expansion activities in Europe and the Middle East. Matsis…
IQ-EQ hires head of depositary
IQ-EQ has appointed Thomas Korteweg as head of depositary. He is based in the Netherlands. Korteweg joins from CACEIS.