SNB Capital, the largest broker and asset manager by market share in Saudi Arabia, has chosen Broadridge to help build its local securities lending and borrowing business. SNB Capital will deploy Broadridge’s securities finance and collateral management (SFCM) service, a front-to-back SaaS solution. SNB Capital has a significant global custody and data management alliance with…
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Pirum appoints new chair
Pirum, the UK-based fintech, has appointed Neal Anderson as chair. He was most recently CEO at Wood Mackenzie, the research and data & analytics provider to the global energy and commodities industries. After eight years as chair, Donal Smith will continue to work with the business in an NED/board advisory capacity. Founded in 2000 to…
BNY Mellon launches buy-side trading
BNY Mellon has launched an outsourced trading service for buy-side institutions. The offering by BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC will be powered by xBK, the buy-side trading division that executes more than USD1trn in volumes on average annually for the company’s investment management franchise. BNY Mellon plans to offer clients a range of services, including:…
Zeeb stands down from SIX
After 14 years on the executive board of SIX, the Swiss stock exchange, Tom Zeeb has decided to leave the company at the end of January 2023. The search for a successor has already been initiated. Until a permanent replacement is appointed, Christoph Landis, currently head of IT and member of the executive board of…
MUTB outsources cash management to FWIA
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking’s (MUTB) global securities lending solutions group has established a securities lending cash management partnership with Fort Washington Investment Advisors (FWIA), the investment arm of Western & Southern, a financial services company and life insurance group. FWIA will be MUTB’s preferred provider for clients that require a separately managed account for…
MUFG hires from Citi for APAC push
MUFG Investor Services, has appointed Fi Dinh as head of fund finance for the APAC region. She joins from Citi Private Bank, where she led a portfolio of private equity fund finance relationships and directed the ESG-linked financing initiative for the business globally. In her new role, Dinh will focus on expanding the fund financing…
Fnality & HQLAx complete DVP repo PoC
Fnality and HQLAᵡ have completed the first PoC DvP repo settlement across the Fnality Payment System (FnPS) and HQLAᵡ’s Digital Collateral Registry, bridging the DLTs of Enterprise Ethereum and R3 Corda. The proof of concept was supported by the project participants – Banco Santander, Goldman Sachs and UBS – and achieved by connecting HQLAᵡ with…
State Street launches new P2P platform
State Street has launched a new peer-to-peer financing platform, Venturi, specifically designed to connect buy-side firms with new sources of liquidity in the global repo space. Venturi, built through a partnership with FinOptSys, a fintech focused on the securities financing market, supports trade negotiations and enhances trade settlement and collateral management, allowing traders to better…
Harvest appoints State Street for CNY hedging
State Street has been appointed by China’s Harvest Fund Management Co Ltd. to provide onshore CNY FX hedging services for their Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) investment funds. State Street has a long-term partnership with Harvest, having provided the firm with a range of investment services since 2010. State Street provides onshore CNY FX liquidity…
Saphyre moves into securities lending
Saphyre, the fintech that provides an AI-driven pre-trade and post-trade platform, is moving into the securities lending space. The company’s interoperable onboarding platform aims to help lenders and borrowers to remove the bottlenecks created by legacy systems. Saphyre says that, by automating the onboarding process, institutions can reduce the potential for errors, increase the speed…