Northern Trust and Equity Data Science (EDS), in which Northern Trust has a strategic stake, have collaborated with Snowflake, the data cloud company, to enhance secure data sharing and onboarding for asset servicing clients using Northern’s Investment Data Science capabilities. Leveraging Snowflake’s data-sharing and cloud technology, Northern Trust and EDS can provide a better, faster…
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Fred Perard joins SuisseTechPartners
Frédéric (Fred) Perard has joined SuisseTechPartners as head of Europe. STP is a fintech company providing front-, middle- and back-office solutions with a portfolio management system called PMplus. Perard left BNP Paribas Securities Services in 2020, where he was most recently head of Luxembourg and the international financial centres. He will remain in Luxembourg.
BNY Mellon adds senior talent to global tax team
Liam Stanbridge has joined BNY Mellon as head of global tax. In this role, Stanbridge will focus on leading client servicing tax solutions for institutional clients and leading the transformation and digitisation of the bank’s tax services offering. He will partner closely with BNY Mellon’s new head of tax product development, Stuart Winny, who has…
JPMAM appoints JPM for MO
J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM), which has USD2.6trn AuM, has selected J.P. Morgan’s securities services division, part of the corporate & investment bank, to support a new global operations model using its investment middle office services capabilities. JPMAM is commencing a multi-year initiative to implement this model, which includes the provision of middle office services,…
State Street to support new VanEck Bitcoin ETF
VanEck, the U.S.-based manager with USD82.2bn AuM, has announced the imminent launch of its VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF (XBTF), an actively managed ETF that seeks capital appreciation by investing in standardised, cash-settled bitcoin futures contracts. XBTF is expected to list on Cboe on November 16, 2021. XBTF is the first ETF in VanEck’s suite of…
BNY Mellon adds MSCI ESG ratings to collateral management
Collateral management clients using BNY Mellon‘s electronic collateral schedule manager, RULE, now have the capability to digitally express their ESG preferences by leveraging ESG ratings and indexes. The firm’s U.S. clients are able to take advantage of these same ESG eligibility capabilities by updating their schedules using current U.S. methodology. The functionality draws on MSCI…
Clearwater hires new head of private assets
Clearwater Analytics, a U.S.-based provider of SaaS-based investment accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has appointed Jonathan Flitt as global head of private assets. In this capacity, he leads product management, strategy, and execution to deliver platform capabilities and solutions that provide total portfolio transparency for the private markets space. Flitt joins from BNY Mellon, where…
Northern Trust deploys ML to research for asset allocators
Northern Trust has launched a feature within its Front Office Solutions business that uses machine learning to help asset allocators gain better control of their research process. The new feature leverages knowledge of a user’s past behaviour to tag research management documents with intelligently suggested attributes before uploading them to the Front Office Solutions platform.…
Indea appoints BP2S for VCC servicing
Indea Capital Partners has appointed BNP Paribas Securities Services to provide services to its sub-fund set-up under Singapore’s Variable Capital Company (VCC) structure. Indea is a Singapore-registered fund manager focused on advising clients on alternative investments. As part of the mandate, BP2S will provide Indea with global custody, hedge fund administration, investor services and financial…
BetaShares hires Citi for custody & fund admin
Citi has been appointed by BetaShares, an Australian fund manager, as provider of custody and fund administration services. BetaShares is said to manage the broadest range of ETFs in the Australian market, with AUSD21bn (USD15.5bn) AuM. In Australia, Citi has added 24 new clients in the past 18 months, primarily as a result of a…