Global Custodian reveals winners of Leaders in Custody awards 2026
Former State Street and BlackRock executive to lead ETF business expansion.
This week’s fund services round-up features: CACEIS, Maples Group, Langham Hall, Suntera Global, Fenergo, and NAV Fund Services.
Transaction will integrate Zodia Custody’s digital asset custody operations into Standard Chartered’s financing and securities services business.
Photos from Global Custodian's Leaders in Custody awards held at The Savoy, London, on 14 May.
Clearstream Banking CEO wins annual award as voted by peers, recognising those who have gone above and beyond over the past 12 months for the benefit of their organisation and the wider industry.
The latest cohort of industry executives has been inducted as GC Legends, recognising their outstanding contributions and distinguished careers in securities services.
Appointments include executives from BNY, State Street, BlackRock and Charles Schwab.
Initiative also involved infrastructure providers including JP Morgan, Chainlink and Sygnum.
Model aims to broaden participation in centrally cleared securities financing transactions.
Central bank-backed innovation challenge highlights growing progress in tokenised settlement infrastructure, but warns trade-offs around scalability, governance and interoperability remain unresolved.
Former EY and KPMG executive joins the fund administrator from Amundi Technology.
Deal adds repo, prime brokerage and collateral management expertise to EquiLend’s securities finance platform.
Collaboration will support near real-time collateral mobility and automation through DTCC’s Collateral AppChain platform.
Enhancement builds on distributed ledger repo platform as firm extends multi-asset capabilities across post-trade and trading workflows.
Marking the 10th year of the recognition and the release of this year’s nominees, we look back at the history of the award including all the previous winners.