Fireside Friday with… BNY’s Eric Badger
Former BNY executive succeeds Michel Bricq, who has retired after more than 35 years with the firm.
Executive joins HSBC from FundBank, having previously held senior roles at Northern Trust, IKANO Advisory Management, Chase Manhattan Bank and Price Waterhouse.
Executive joins from DCM Systems, having previously held senior product roles at Revolut, Barclays, Visa Europe and Rakuten Viber.
Agentic AI adoption lags, with improved accuracy and fewer operational errors cited as key priority for firms.
Commission points to a ‘disconnect’ between the legacy regulation and the highly sophisticated environment that transfer agents operate in today.
Mandate covers fund depositary, global custody and fund administration services as Pictet Asset Management enters Europe’s active ETF market.
AI-driven quantitative manager taps SS&C GlobeOp for fund accounting and investor services as it scales trading operations across Asia.
DLT investment is accelerating as firms move from pilots to live deployment, with 77% of existing users reporting significant improvements over traditional platforms.
Expansion builds on DLR platform as firm extends tokenised collateral capabilities to G7 securities across repo, intraday liquidity and collateral workflows.
AutoFX will embed FX execution into the settlement process as European and UK markets prepare for the move to T+1 in 2027.
Executive joins Standard Chartered after more than 15 years at Citi, where he held senior custody product management roles across Singapore and Hong Kong.
Collaboration will examine tokenisation, digital cash and settlement as Australian institutional investors assess emerging market infrastructure.
Chris Elms, CEO of Euroclear UK & International, discusses 30 years of CREST and how the UK can build on its existing market infrastructure as it moves towards T+1, dematerialisation and greater adoption of digital assets.
Integration will allow banks to connect existing digital asset infrastructure with Swift’s shared ledger for tokenised deposits and cross-border payments.
Custodian is expanding its existing relationship with the firm to include transfer agency services for the new class.