Northern Trust has launched the Northern Trust Carbon Ecosystem with the first live transactions on the blockchain-based platform which enables institutional buyers to digitally access carbon credits from leading project developers. The transactions were initiated by Water Recovery Systems IP Limited and CUT Carbon Distributed Technologies AG, which sold carbon credits to institutional buyers for…
Category: Capital Markets
Northern Trust launches APAC FI desk
Northern Trust has launched its Integrated Trading Solutions fixed income outsourced trading capability in APAC, provided through Northern Trust Securities in Australia. Northern Trust now offers 24/6 fixed income trading coverage from desks based in Chicago, London and Sydney.
Kohli joins Pirum
Pirum, the UK-based fintech focused on securities finance and collateral management, has appointed Amit Kohli as EMEA key account management director. He joins from KPMG, where he helped to build the firm’s capital markets consulting business.
Nedgroup Investments selects Northern Trust
Northern Trust has been selected to provide outsourced trading via its Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS) for Nedgroup Investments, a global asset management firm with >USD20bn AuM. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd. Northern Trust will support Nedgroup Investments’ new in-house multi-boutique platform which specialises in fixed income. The premier fund on the…
NT wins new ITS mandate
True Potential, a UK-headquartered wealth management firm, has expanded its relationship with Northern Trust to include outsourced trading via its Integrated Trading Solutions solution. Northern Trust will assume the trading function across True Potential’s internally managed funds with approximately GBP6.1bn (USD7.8bn) AuM. Northern Trust currently provides fund accounting, transfer agency, custody and depositary services to…
Pirum hires U.S. sales director
Pirum, the fintech focused on securities finance and collateral management, has appointed Richard Marquis as director, sales, North America. Based in New York, Marquis joins Pirum from MUFG Securities, where he ran the securities finance regulatory project for 10c-1a compliance. He has also worked at BNY, J.P. Morgan and UBS.
ECPOConnect goes live
BNY Mellon has gone live with the first client for ECPOConnect, a collateral optimisation service developed in collaboration with Pirum Systems, the post-trade services fintech. The inaugural client is a Canadian bank. This new service combines BNY Mellon’s collateral management service, ECPO, with Pirum’s CollateralConnect platform, a SaaS-based solution supporting front-to-back cross-asset margin, collateral and…
State Street appoints head of sec finance
State Street has appointed Taryn Siglain as head of financing solutions. Siglain will lead State Street’s agency lending, prime services, and secured (repo) financing businesses. She succeeds Gino Timperio who will retire from State Street at the end of June, and will report to Tony Bisegna, head of Global Markets. Siglain joined State Street from…
Qatar strikes first sec lending deal
The Qatar Stock Exchange and Edaa Qatar have overseen the first onshore securities lending and borrowing transaction in Qatar. HSBC acted as custodian and agent lender for this transaction while QNBFS acted as the borrower.
Swissquote expands with BNPP
BNP Paribas has been mandated by Swissquote, a provider of online banking, to provide custody services. The mandate expands the existing relationship between Swissquote and BNP Paribas, which covers execution for cash equities, to include global and local custody services for Swissquote’s portfolio of assets in European markets.