Apex has appointed Olivier Portenseigne as global head of transfer agency products. Based in Luxembourg, he will lead Apex’s global transfer agency product strategy and innovation agenda. He joins from FundsDLT, Clearstream’s blockchain-based fund distribution and transfer agency platform, where he was CEO.
Category: Product
State Street launches onchain liquidity fund
NAV Fund Services has been selected as fund administrator for the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), a tokenised private liquidity fund launched in May by State Street Investment Management and Galaxy. SWEEP includes Anchorage as digital custodian for stablecoin investments, Galaxy providing tokenisation technology and digital infrastructure, Chainlink providing onchain NAV publication…
SEI links to ICE
SEI has agreed with the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) to leverage ICE ETF Hub, an open architecture platform designed to bring efficiencies to the primary market workflow for ETPs.
BNY expands digital asset coverage
BNY has expanded its digital asset custody platform for select institutions in the European Union under the MiCA framework. The expansion follows the addition of The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, BNY’s European banking entity, to ESMA’s MiCA register in July 2026.
BNPP implements Proxymity solution
BNP Paribas’ securities services business has implemented Proxymity’s Vote Connect Global solution as part of its general meetings services for global custody clients across EMEA and Asia Pacific, directly connecting issuers, intermediaries and investors through a near real-time digital ecosystem.
BNPP adds functionality to Data PRISM360
BNP Paribas has launched additional data capabilities through its Data PRISM360 data management solution, powered by Investment Data Solution of NeoXam. UniSuper, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, is the first client to adopt the solution and now receives daily investment exposure datasets across its entire fund structure.
State Street shuffles senior management team
State Street continues to reshuffle its senior management team. Mostapha Tahiri, who was appointed enterprise chief operating officer in 2023, will become president of State Street Alpha, with responsibility for Alpha, Charles River Development, and other platform solutions, reporting to Ron O’Hanley, chairman and CEO of State Street. Tahiri will have end-to-end responsibility for Alpha…
BBH launches data business
BBH has launched a new technology affiliate, Braid LLC, focused on solving enterprise data transformation for financial services. Braid offers an AI-native data transformation platform that gives firms a scale solution to transform, connect and manage their data with confidence. Braid empowers teams to build, automate, and oversee reliable production-grade data transformations in a fraction…
NTRS expands Singapore unit trust offering
Northern Trust has expanded its Singapore unit trust offering through a relationship with Perpetual (Asia) Limited. Together, the firms provide investment managers with access to a comprehensive servicing solution for Singapore unit trust structures, combining Northern Trust’s custody, fund administration and middle-office outsourcing capabilities with Perpetual’s trustee services. Perpetual (Asia) Limited is part of the…
U.S. Bank launches waterfall solution
U.S. Bank has launched its Private Waterfall Engine, an automated fund waterfall administration platform designed to support private markets funds. The platform supports multiple waterfall methodologies and automates carried interest, performance fee, and distribution calculations. It imports data from upstream systems, performs controlled calculations and delivers reports and journal entries through a standardized workflow. Private…