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BNY Mellon launches iPad app
25 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BNY Mellon has launched Workbench Mobile, a new app enabling the firm’s institutional clients to authorise instructions and securely access key reports and account information from their iPad...

Prigent to head SGSS
25 July 2011 Paris
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Bruno Prigent, currently deputy head of Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS), will become head of SGSS as of 30 September 2011...

Ebeling to join UBS
22 July 2011 Zurich
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Sven Ebeling is to join UBS as head of asset servicing in Switzerland...

J.P. Morgan selected by AQR Capital Management
22 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

J.P. Morgan has been selected by investment management firm AQR Capital Management, adviser to the AQR Funds, to provide prime custody and fund administration to its newly launched mutual fund...

J.P. Morgan transitions APG's emerging market assets
21 July 2011 Amsterdam
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

J.P. Morgan’s Worldwide Securities Services business has successfully transitioned $12.5 billion in emerging market assets for APG, the Dutch pension administrator and asset manager...

Luxembourg prepares for AIFMD
21 July 2011 Luxembourg
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

On the 1st July 2011, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union...

BNY Mellon appoints new EMEA chairman
21 July 2011 London
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

BNY Mellon has appointed Michael Cole-Fontayn as its new chairman of Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)...

Sub-transfer agency services selected
20 July 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has been selected to provide sub-transfer agency services for the Delaware Investments Family of Funds and Optimum Fund Trust, the mandate extends the existing outsourcing and mutual fund servicing relationship

DST Systems announces agreement to acquire ALPS Holdings
20 July 2011 Kansas City
Reporter: Justin Lawson

DST Systems, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALPS Holdings, Inc. The acquisition builds DST's distribution and asset gathering services while broadening it's range of administrative capabilities.....

UBS GAM builds in Asia
20 July 2011 Hong Kong
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

UBS Global Asset Management has launched its Asia Pacific Fund Services business, which will provide fund administration and support to funds in the region...

Huntington Asset Services to aid mutual fund launch
19 July 2011 Columbus
Reporter: Justin Lawson

Huntington Asset Services will assist Longview Capital Management with its first mutual fund offering. The Delaware-based investment firm will offer a mutual fund that will be serviced through Huntingtons' Valued Advisers Trust......

Credit Suisse builds Asian team
19 July 2011 Hong Kong
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Credit Suisse has appointed Carl Bautista, Mervyn Chow and George Pavey as co-heads of its Global Markets Solutions Group (GMSG) for Asia Pacific and Zeth Hung as vice chairman of the Investment Banking Department and GMSG for Greater China...