BNP Paribas Securities Services expands front-to-back offering to hedge funds
Global custodians are increasingly seeking to evolve their business models, which have traditionally centred on the back-office, to include front-office services.
Global custodians are increasingly seeking to evolve their business models, which have traditionally centred on the back-office, to include front-office services.
State Street's former head of EMEA, Liz Nolan, was named head of its global delivery team earlier this year after a senior leadership reshuffle.
The mandate represents the successful integration of front-office technology firm Eze Software with SS&C GlobeOp.
Lazard Asset Management signs letter of intent to use State Street’s widely-discussed front-to-back investment servicing platform.
The newly created role will involve oversight of the data underpinning its front-to-back platform development.
State Street has made a series of enhancements in support of asset owners, as it prepares to onboard buy-side clients to its front-to-back model.
Topics discussed at the forum included achieving buy-side operational efficiencies, new front-to-back service models, blockchain, ESG and tokenisation.
Custodians, asset managers, hedge funds, tech vendors and crypto experts will take to the stage for the second annual Global Custodian Forum to be held in London on 23 May.
Despite unfavourable conditions for the global custody industry as a whole in the first few months of the year, Ron O’Hanley, State Street’s new CEO, sees untapped opportunities.
The review will include a potential uplift of operations for client on-boarding, asset servicing, collateral management and settlement processes.