Broadridge Financial Solutions, a fintech provider, has gone live with its its distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform. The launch comes after multiple pilots with sell-side and buy-side firms. DLR provides a single platform where market participants can agree, execute and settle repo transactions. DLR allows for the immobilisation of the underlying securities in the repo…
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RBC launches FX TCA service
RBC Investor & Treasury Services has launched its FX transaction cost analysis (TCA) service for currency overlay services (COS) clients. The service, which uses analytical technology provided by State Street-owned BestX, will provide RBC’s COS clients with independent FX TCA reporting to oversee and assess the execution quality of their COS transactions. COS is available…
Laide Majiyagbe joins BNY Mellon to head financing & liquidity
BNY Mellon has appointed Laide Majiyagbe as head of financing and liquidity, assuming oversight of the securities finance, liquidity services and collateral segregation businesses. In this newly created role, Majiyagbe will oversee the strategic direction for BNY Mellon’s financing, collateral and short-term liquidity offering. She joins BNY Mellon from Goldman Sachs, where she spent 14…
Fidelity launches agency lending platform
Fidelity Investments, which has AuM of USD10.3trn, has launched Fidelity Agency Lending, a digital platform that manages all aspects of securities lending for asset managers and other institutions. Fidelity Agency Lending has been a securities lending agent for the Fidelity mutual funds since 2019 and is currently responsible for more than USD2trn in assets.
LJ Jhangiani joins MUFG IS securities lending team
LJ Jhangiani has joined MUFG Investor Services’ global securities lending solutions team He will be working for Tom Ryan, head of asset & liability trading, as head of securities lending automated processing. He was previously at BMO Harris Bank.
U.S. Bank invests in FX specialist Lumint
U.S. Bank has made an equity investment in Lumint, a Boston-based company that provides currency management services to institutional investors. Earlier this year, U.S. Bank launched a new passive currency hedging service powered by Lumint’s technology. In 2018 Lumint formed a strategic partnership with Northern Trust.
AllianceBernstein makes fixed-income history
AllianceBernstein has become the first buy-side firm to receive aggregated liquidity from multiple buyers on the same corporate bond block trade. The trade was enabled by LTX, a Broadridge company, and powered by LTX’s patented RFX protocol. AllianceBernstein tapped into its dealer’s client network to sell a large block of bonds and access aggregated liquidity…
Invesco signs for State Street’s Alpha platform
State Street has entered into an agreement with Invesco Ltd., the U.S.-based asset manager with USD1.4trn AuM, which will result in Invesco adopting State Street Alpha, the first front-to-back asset servicing platform from a single provider for institutional and wealth management firms. The migration to Alpha is intended to simplify Invesco’s investment infrastructure to improve…
Northern Trust to establish eFX pricing engine in Singapore
Northern Trust is to establish a new electronic foreign exchange (eFX) pricing engine in Singapore, in partnership with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. This will be Northern Trust’s first eFX engine in Asia-Pacific.
BNY Mellon adds FICC cleared repo to LiquidityDirect portal
BNY Mellon has made FICC sponsored cleared repo available through its LiquidityDirect short-end investment portal. Institutional clients can now seamlessly invest cash in cleared repo through LiquidityDirect. The addition of cleared repo to LiquidityDirect broadens the range of short-term investments on the platform to include a secured, centrally cleared alternative that provides counterparty diversity and…