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SSGA issues SPDR ETFs on Euroclear’s FundSettle
31 May 2016 Amsterdam
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of the State Street corporation, has issued 40 SPDR exchange-traded funds on the Euroclear FundSettle processing platform...

Clarient Entity Hub expands in Luxembourg
19 May 2016 Luxembourg
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Schroders Investment Management in Luxembourg has adopted the Clarient Entity Hub utility-based service for simplifying client data and document management...

State Street takes over €500 billion Dealis mandate
10 May 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

State Street is taking over Dealis Fund Operations, a joint venture by Allianz Global Investors and DekaBank, and will be providing investment services for €500 billion in assets...

New members join post-trade blockchain consortium
05 May 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Ernst & Young and two other institutions have joined the Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group, bringing the total number of members to 37...

State Street snaps up GEAM
31 March 2016 Boston
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

State Street has agreed to acquire GE Asset Management (GEAM) in a $485 million cash transaction...

Collaborative blockchain trial a success
03 March 2016 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

R3 has completed trials of five new cloud-based blockchain technologies, with 40 financial institutions taking part...

New Amsterdam office for SGSS
14 December 2015 Amsterdam
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SGSS has set up a new Amsterdam-based team for developing business in the Netherlands and the Nordics, and has hired two ex-State Street employees to run it...

State Street opens Copenhagen office
11 November 2015 Copenhagen
Reporter: Drew Nicol

State Street has strengthened its presence in the Nordic region with the opening of an office in Copenhagen...

Global Prime Partners expands clearing & custody team
03 November 2015 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Global Prime Partners has appointed Tom Wooders as head of sales, broker-dealers and intermediaries...

Distribution ledger consortium gains traction
28 October 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

UniCredit, Mizuho and Nordea have signed up to R3’s distributed ledger project, bringing the total number of participating banks to 25...

State Street gets currency swaps mandate
25 September 2015 Toronto
Reporter: Drew Nicol

State Street has been named as the collateral manager and custodian for the Department of Finance Canada’s currency swap programme...

Two G-SIBs trailing for SLR requirements
31 July 2015 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

BNY Mellon and State Street are at risk of failing to comply with the Basel III supplementary leverage ratio requirements, and should retain higher levels of capital in order to ensure compliance...