All articles by Tim Steele – Page 3
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Upstaging the locals
Continental Europe may be on the cusp of an investment revolution, but it seems increasingly questionable whether many of those banks that make up the (already much depleted) ranks of the region’s local custody providers will still be around to reap the coming bounty. In recent years only the UK ...
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New tenants in the house of cards
Hunker down for a chat with a custodian these days and, sure as apples is apples, soon enough the conversation will turn to outsourcing. To be fair, custodians can be forgiven for getting somewhat over-excited, given that they spent most of the latter part of the 1990s talking up the ...
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Clydesdale: in from the cold
Ask clients to name potential custody providers, and until very recently the odds would have been heavily stacked against the name Clydesdale Bank figuring very high on any list of candidates, if indeed it was to be found at all. Despite having offered domestic trustee and custody services for some ...
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New channel in and out of equity markets
While past efforts to harmonise clearing and settlement and other related market practices across the rest of Continental Europe have been fitful at best, the four markets of the Nordic region – Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway – have on the whole tended to be far better disposed towards regional ...
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Proving cross-border alliances can work
While mergers and acquisitions have been two-a-penny within the custody sphere in recent years, partnerships between global custodians are a far rarer beast. Despite the very public scepticism of many of its fellow custodians, however, Mellon Trust has chosen to forge not one but three strategic alliances: its recent link-up ...
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Twenty five years 'agrowing'
With Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) partner Ham Lynch bidding adieu to the UK as he heads back to New York to take up an expanded role within the bank, it seems an opportune moment to review the significant broadening of activities over which he has presided during his tenure as ...
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Silent and deep at Merrills
The removal of RBS Trust Bank and Lloyds TSB Securities Services from the global custody equation – the first swallowed up by The Bank of New York, the other falling victim to a predictable post-merger realignment of priorities – left a London-shaped hole in the business that a number of ...
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European solution still elusive
Few custodians would argue that Europe is the place to be. Yet, at the same time, talk of a European marketplace is something of a misnomer. “The trigger for_harmonisation was supposed to be the introduction of the euro, but while we hoped the next steps would follow quickly thereon in, ...
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Custody and rule of 'more sooner'
Any attempt to map the technological topography of the custody business five or even three years down the line is a fraught enterprise. Certainly, back in 1996, few custodians could anticipate the profound transformation wrought upon the commercial landscape as the internet came of age in the late 1990s, a ...
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