All Securities Services articles – Page 6
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NewsClients less satisfied with custodians as pressures mount, survey shows
Pictet topples RBC to take top position in R&M Consultants’ global custodian ranking
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NewsSwedish buffer fund AP7 reappoints BNY Mellon as global custodian
Firm to provide securities services for $28.8bn of assets in open-ended mandate
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NewsAPG to become intermediated participant on BondMatch
Dutch giant cites fixed income trading, liquidity issues due to regulatory environment
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NewsMandate roundup: Fondenergia, SEI, Lufthansa, Nuffield, Headlam
Fondenergia re-appoints Société Générale Securities Services for depository banking services.
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NewsBNP Paribas Securities Services continues expansion with Swiss division
French bank builds on new offices in Netherlands, UK
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NewsState Street fined £23m over ‘significant failings’ in transition management
UK regulator criticises ‘systemic weaknesses’ with internal control processes
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NewsGerman investors attaching greater importance to separating admin from management
Survey shows bifurcation of market into ‘pure’ Master KAGs, those providing AM services
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NewsAP1 wins securities-lending lawsuit against BNY Mellon
Swedish buffer fund wins nearly $34m in damages
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NewsNorthern Trust to expand into UK, Netherlands
Moves to support fund managers implementing Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
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Special Report
Securities Services: Stuck in the shadows
Securities lending took a major hit in the 2008 crisis. For those funds that stayed the course, Cécile Sourbes finds new regulation promising more activity, but threatening to raise costs
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Special Report
Securities Services: Transitional, but not trivial
Most investors now recognise the advantages of specialist transition management. But Andrew Williams warns against the easy route of deploying one’s custodian to the task
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Special Report
Securities Services: New rules, new threats, new opportunities
We leave the bad news for custodians until last in this month’s special report on securities services. Andrew Williams of Mercer Sentinel outlines the difference that a good transition-management process can make relative to a bad one. Then he questions which of those categories leaving it to your custodian falls ...
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Special Report
Securities Services:Taking ‘solutions’ into custody
With regulators questioning the delegation and concentration of powers under fiduciary management and implemented consulting models, Iain Morse finds custodians sensing a business opportunity
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Special Report
Securities Services: Global custodians go local
New regulation is changing the relationship between custodians and depositories – but will this tilt the market in favour of global or local institutions? Iain Morse investigates
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Special Report
Securities Services: Defining custody’s contribution
As DC builds assets, trust-based structures come into their own and cost-saving aggregation opportunities abound. Iain Morse finds custodians well-positioned to put them into action
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Opinion Pieces
Securities Services: Viewpoint: Upcoming changes in the CSD landscape
Placed at the ‘top tier’ of the securities holding chain, central securities depositories (CSDs) provide market participants with a central point for depositing all kinds of financial instruments, and they have not escaped the ambitious reform agenda of policy makers.
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Special Report
Securities Services: Case study: BNY Mellon strikes out on a new path
There is one idea banks traditionally stick to: the quicker you adapt to new regulatory changes, the easier you are likely to cope with them. And if you can anticipate the changes, you might even take one step ahead of your competitors. That may have been the thinking behind BNY ...
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Special Report
Securities Services: The indefinite article
Article 47.3 of the technical standards of EMIR is about to pose challenging questions for Europe’s custody banks. Cécile Sourbes finds out why
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Special Report
Securities Services: KAS Bank: ‘We call it custody 2.0’
Over recent years custody has changed drastically from simple safekeeping to high-tech data management, says Albert Röell, CEO of KAS Bank, and custodians sit, like spiders, at the center of a web of data trade and position data.
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Features
Innovate to survive
As business becomes thinner and specialisation becomes crucial, Iain Morse reports on the Norwegian custody market
