Citing 16 breaches of the regulations governing fund administration outsourcing, the Central Bank of Ireland fined BNY Mellon Fund Services DAC a total of €10,780,000 ($11.9 million), making it the largest monetary penalty to date ever imposed on a fund services provider in Ireland. “BNY DAC is the second-largest fund administrator in Ireland with just… Read More >>
State Street Buys BBH Investor Services for $3.5B
State Street Corp. is acquiring the custody, accounting, fund administration, global markets, and technology services of private bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. — known as BBH’s Investor Services business — for $3.5 billion in cash in a major bid to become the top provider in the investment servicing industry. The firms report that they… Read More >>
Rep’s Strategies Spur FINRA Charges & Fine for Firm
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has hit a brokerage in Cincinnati, Ohio with a censure, a fine of $275,000, and the obligation to make more than $1 million in customer restitution. The broker is the O.N. Equity Sales Company, Inc. (ONESCO), which “offers various investment products, including deferred variable annuities, to the public through its 760… Read More >>
Temenos Applies Artificial Intelligence to Fund Accounting
Software vendor Temenos is applying artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies to fund accounting in an effort to help its fund administration clients identify false-positive exceptions faster, which can help them reduce the number of manual interventions they need to do as part of the exception management process. To help firms better identify false positives, Temenos has… Read More >>
World Bank Signs Licensing Agreement with SimCorp
World Bank Deployment to Cover Middle and Back Offices SimCorp, which provides investment management products and services to the financial services industry, reports that the World Bank has licensed SimCorp Dimension, the vendor’s investment management system. The agreement was signed in late 2018, per SimCorp. Under the agreement, the World Bank has licensed SimCorp’s “middle… Read More >>
Linedata Admin Edge to Get New Links to Morningstar’s BondPro
Linedata Extends Morningstar Agreement Investment management systems vendor Linedata is expanding its fixed income and credit derivatives coverage for its fund services clients via an extension of its partnership with Morningstar, officials say. “The partnership will provide expanded analytics to meet the requirements of alternative funds and [separately managed accounts] and enhances Linedata Admin Edge’s… Read More >>
BlackRock Signs Trillion-Dollar Custody Deal with JPMorgan
BlackRock will be using JPMorgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank unit for custodial services, fund accounting, and fund administration for more than $1 trillion of client assets, shifting them from State Street Bank and Trust Co. The move, expected to take two years to complete, is widely seen as a major win for JPMorgan. But it… Read More >>
Canadian Firm Shifts Fund Administration to SS&C
Canadian firm, Nicola Wealth Management (NWM), has turned to SS&C Technologies to provide fund administration services for nearly $4 billion in assets under management (AUM) in an effort to bolster productivity and reduce operational risk, NWM officials say. SS&C’s fund administration services such as fund accounting and investor services will support NWM’s 15 funds and… Read More >>
Belated Spotlights for Triad Securities, Linedata and ISDA
One of the reasons that this blog exists is to spotlight items that can quickly hit and then bounce off our radar. Rather than lose them in the flurry of news, I’m going to give them their 140 characters of fame. Triad Securities Expands Brokerage Triad Securities announced last month that it had expanded its managed… Read More >>
Vendors Are Rushing to Fill Voids in Ops Offerings
Front-office financial technology vendors are moving quickly to expand their reach into the middle and back office while traditional portfolio accounting systems providers are moving upstream into the middle office in attempts to provide a fuller suite of asset management operational services, according to a new report from market research firm Celent, a division of… Read More >>
