Asset servicing provider Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has been tapped to provide custody and fund order services for a Chilean insurance company, Compañia de Seguros Confuturo SA, which, in its role as an institutional investor, oversees $2 billion in assets abroad, officials say. “Confuturo’s investments abroad have increased significantly, as has the diversity of instruments,… Read More >>
German Firm Taps BNP Paribas Securities Services
German asset manager Flossbach von Storch wants to expand beyond its domestic market and will be using the global custody, fund accounting, and transfer agency support offered by BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNPSS) for its UCITS funds in Germany and Luxembourg, officials say. An official at Flossbach von Storch tells FTF News that BNPSS will… Read More >>
Prometheum Dives Into Digital Asset Securities Custody
(Prometheum Inc. will launch a digital asset securities custody platform during the first quarter of next year, according to officials at the firm. This follows recent approval by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the self-regulatory organization (SRO) for U.S. broker-dealers, to allow the firm to operate a special purpose broker-dealer (SPBD) that will offer custody for… Read More >>
Can APIs Ease Prime Brokerage Friction?
(Prerak Sanghvi and his New York City-based employer Clear Street, which describes itself as “an independent, non-bank prime broker” are on a mission. They want to help the capital markets industry move beyond mainframe-based, legacy infrastructures and onto Clear Street’s cloud-native clearing and custody system. Getting there will require application programming interfaces (APIs), which are links… Read More >>
Bakkt Futures & Custody to Launch Next Month
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has given the green light to Bakkt Trust Co., which means that it can offer custody services for bitcoin in conjunction with the launch of physically delivered bitcoin futures contracts, officials say. “This now enables us to offer institutional-grade custody via the Bakkt Warehouse alongside the… Read More >>
