Northern Trust Canada has launched an online portal, Benefit Payment Participant Passport, enabling advanced automation for participants of Canadian benefit plans. The portal allows pension and benefit plan participants to access their program information in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in French or English. The self-service option supplements mailings, call…
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CACEIS to service EUR1bn PE fund for ArchiMed
CACEIS has been selected to service the new MED Platform I fund run by ArchiMed, a private equity firm specialising in the healthcare sector. The mandate covers depositary bank, custody, middle-office, fund accounting and financing services for the fund, which reached a EUR1bn final close.
Citi extends partnership with Netwealth to include E2C
Citi has agreed to extend its partnership with Netwealth, a fund platform based in Australia, as its provider of global custody, global and domestic equities execution and fund administration. Netwealth will be the first Australian wealth platform to have access to Citi’s Execution to Custody (E2C) service, which provides global execution, settlement and custody services…
J.P. Morgan chooses H4 to improve document management
J.P. Morgan has chosen H4 to help improve the client contract onboarding experience, reuse data contained in documents, and build a digital library. H4 and J.P. Morgan have piloted the new documentation platform in the global custody business, with a view to rolling it out across the securities services business. In May 2020, J.P. Morgan…
State Street hires Nils Hoffmann as EMEA client executive
Nils Hoffmann has joined State Street as a client executive for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Based in Frankfurt, he will report jointly to Silvio Angius, a leader of the global clients division, and Stefan Gmuer, chief executive officer for State Street International. In this role, he will be responsible for the strategic direction and…
Samsung Fire & Marine appoints HSBC as global custodian
HSBC has been appointed as global custodian by Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (SFMI), a non-life insurance company in Korea, for part of its investment portfolio in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China. HSBC completed an asset transition of a portion of SFMI’s fixed income portfolios in these markets. This comes after the bank’s onboarding…
HSBC chooses Ultumus as ETF PCF provider
HSBC has chosen ETF and index data provider Ultumus to be its portfolio composition file (PCF) solution provider. Ultumus will be responsible for performing PCF creation and distribution for HSBC’s ETF clients globally. The first clients will be switched to the Ultumus platform in Q4 with the rest being completed in early 2021.
Northern Trust makes management appointments for ME&A
Northern Trust has made two appointments to its Middle East & Africa asset servicing business. The new positions are based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Justin Miller has been appointed head of relationship management for the Middle East & Africa. He was previously head of client management for securities lending for EMEA. Chris Dulieu has been…
State Street reshuffles Alpha senior management team
State Street has reshuffled its leadership team for State Street Alpha, its open, front-to-back investment servicing platform for institutional and wealth management firms. State Street Alpha provides an outsourced platform across front office solutions, analytics, liquidity, data management, and outsourced middle and back office services. Spiros Giannaros has been named chief executive officer of Charles…
Citi adds client reporting functionality to Clarity
Citi has launched a new client reporting solution as the latest enhancement to its middle office services. The new reporting service is built on the Vermilion Reporting Suite, a global client reporting platform, coupled with Citi’s own Clarity data and analytics platform. The new reporting service offers asset manager clients a low-touch, automated solution for…