Category: Offshore

CACEIS, the asset servicing banking group of Crédit Agricole S.A. and Santander, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Royal Bank of Canada for CACEIS to acquire the European asset servicing activities of RBC Investor Services and its associated Malaysian centre of excellence. This would include custody, global custody FX, fund administration, transfer agency, middle…

BNP Paribas has been selected by Fineco Asset Management (FAM) to provide a full range of banking services for its equities and fixed income ETFs listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. FAM, an Irish UCITS management company wholly owned by Italian bank FinecoBank S.p.A., has entered the ETF market with a range of Ireland-domiciled funds.…

Northern Trust has been appointed by Polar Capital to provide global custody, depositary, transfer agency, fund accounting and currency management services to the Melchior Selected Trust. Domiciled in Luxembourg, Polar Capital’s Melchior Selected Trust was launched in 2010 and is comprised of the Melchior Absolute Return Fund, European Opportunities Fund and Global Equity Fund. All…

FundRock Management Company, the Apex-owned third-party UCITS ManCo and AIFM, has expanded its relationship with Fundsmith, the UK-based fund management company, to include distribution services. In addition to existing ManCo services, FundRock Distribution S.A. will now provide distribution services, enabling Fundsmith to distribute its funds in Europe. FundRock Distribution will provide specific resources and support…

Alison Manley has joined the Ireland board of Universal Investment, the Germany-based administrator, as an independent non-executive director and chair. She has over 25 years’ experience developing funds and financial products and is an experienced non-executive director of Irish regulated UCITS, AIFs and ManCos. Manley established and was CEO of Goodbody Fund Management, a Super…