Category: Capital Markets

BNP Paribas Securities Services is expanding its market and financing services for clients in Asia Pacific with the launch of a new agency securities lending desk in Hong Kong. This desk will complement existing services offered in Sydney, London and New York. BNP Paribas has appointed Anthony McDonald to head up the Hong Kong agency…

HSBC has facilitated securities lending transactions conducted by China Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited in mainland China. The two transactions, executed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, are among the first batch of securities lending transactions via the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) scheme. HSBC is the custodian, providing services including investment…

Bloomberg has established a new streamlined workflow between BSKT, its primary market solution for ETFs, and Brown Brothers Harriman. It claims to be the first real-time solution that provides authorized participants with a single interface for ETF order taking and negotiating ETF baskets. BSKT is a primary market solution for negotiation, ticketing and routing ETF…

State Street and SimCorp, an investment management solutions and service provider, have announced their intention to form a business partnership to provide a fully integrated, front-to-back investment outsourcing solution for insurance firms in EMEA. EMEA-based insurance companies will have access to SimCorp Dimension’s cloud-based, multi-asset class capabilities, advanced accounting functionality and managed services, together with…

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…

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…

BNY Mellon has appointed Robin Vince as a vice chair and CEO of global market infrastructure. Vince will report to Todd Gibbons, CEO of BNY Mellon, and will join BNY Mellon’s ExCo. He will have oversight of BNY Mellon’s clearance and collateral management, treasury services, markets and Pershing businesses. He joins from Goldman Sachs, where…