Global Custodian's 2019 Industry Person of the Year shortlist is revealed, recognising four individuals that have gone above and beyond in the year.
The win takes BNY Mellon’s global real estate fund platform to $130 billion of assets under administration, representing close to 80 funds.
Evli Fund Management is the first Finnish asset manager to have successfully onboarded its mutual funds onto the Vestima platform.
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BNP Paribas Securities Services partnered with Fortia to rollout its INNOVA software and automate their core depositary banking processes, signalling how banks can benefit from collaboration with FinTechs.
The US SEC has collected monetary settlements exceeding $370 million relating to its investigation into improper handling of pre-released ADRs.
Nine global custodians are in various stages of testing with the MTU, and GlobalCollateral is in the process of engaging with around 40 other regional custodians.
State Street's unveiled the Fearless Girl statue in London this week, but what are the custodian and its industry counterparts doing internally to address gender inequality?
Eurex now has 28 participants signed up to the repo partnership programme including JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley.
The approval will allow European-based clients to continue trading on the platform without the interruption of the UK’s exit from the EU.
Respondents to Deutsche Bank’s Alternative Investment Survey believe Asia is the most sought-after investment region for the first time since 2010.
Ultimus announced it would merge with Gemini in November after both companies entered into a deal to be acquired by private equity firm GTCR.
The deal adds a further $40 billion in assets under administration (AuA) to Apex’s portfolio, taking it to a total AuA to $650 billion globally.
Blockchain start-ups are now facing serious assaults from established market infrastructures and custodians that are developing their own solutions.
Global Custodian takes a deep dive into the nominees for its Editors’ Choice awards at this year’s Leaders in Custody event, next up: the candidates up for Best Innovation in Market Infrastructure.
The ASIFMA paper suggested allowing investment managers and their lending agents, often global custodians, to carry out securities lending in the markets.
The roll out of uncleared initial margin rules has now reached the buy-side with phase 4 firms coming into scope in September 2019.
Custodians could play a large role in the ESG space as they look to take up the role of a big data aggregator in order to inform clients of relevant ESG developments.