Global Custodian

ANNOUNCEMENT: Global Custodian is delighted to announce the return of its Leaders in Custody Asia Awards, to be held at Raffles in Singapore on 29 May 2025. The ceremony will honour securities services providers across the Asia Pacific region which have excelled in Global Custodian’s agent banks surveys, along with a range of Editors’ Choice, Individual and Innovation awards segments. The full shortlist can be found here: https://lnkd.in/ebV3QyvS Congratulations to all those nominated Standard Chartered Deutsche Bank BNP Paribas - Securities Services Mizuho Citi HSBC State Street DBS Bank ICICI Bank MUFG BNY Northern Trust Asset Servicing J.P. Morgan Euroclear Chainlink Labs Nuvama Asset Services The Citco Group Limited Aladdin® Marketnode Ant Digital Technologies SBI Digital Asset Holdings Broadridge Digital Asset Proxymity Swift

OPINION: How tokenisation could have prevented previous market failures. Leveraging tokenised real world assets for global collateral opens the doors to more asset mobility and improved market stability, writes Kelly Mathieson chief business development officer at Digital Asset. https://lnkd.in/ek9V9BSi

From red tape to green light: US regulatory shake-up signals new era for digital assets As the new US administration takes bold steps to reshape the regulatory landscape for digital assets, the financial services industry sits poised for transformative change. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e3K8nasM

Despite being able to fill an entire Friday 5 with BNY news this week, we have opted for a range of stories including big GC announcements, regional coverage from Australia and the Middle East and yet another collateral tokenisation story. 

Global Custodian's Spring Magazine is now live! Our cover issue looks at how the new US administration’s bold steps to reshape the digital asset regulatory landscape has propelled custodians back into the spotlight, while the issue is also packed with other features, opinions and surveys. Subscribers can view the issue here: https://lnkd.in/e-CZrjA8

J.P. Morgan reports 7% securities services growth in first quarter. Strong start to the year for JP Morgan’s securities services business which reports revenue and assets under custody growth. https://lnkd.in/e-7iGvXC

BNY fast out the blocks in Q1 with 8% securities services revenue increase Year-on-year uptick stems from increases across all securities services units as AUC/A also rises again. https://lnkd.in/eERkmCvg

SUBMIT YOUR AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR LEADERS IN CUSTODY ASIA! We are opening our Innovation Awards nominations for one more week, closing 18th April. This is the only segment of our ceremony open to nominations and recognises truly ground-breaking ideas or visions from the securities services industry across Asia Pacific. Nominate via this link: https://lnkd.in/eKbt35nw

BNY and EquiLend support eToro in stock lending launch. The introduction of stock lending represents an expansion of the existing relationship between BNY and eToro. https://lnkd.in/eVD97EJf

Standard Chartered and OKX launch collateral mirroring pilot Initiative enables use of crypto and tokenised money market funds as off-exchange collateral, with Franklin Templeton and Brevan Howard Digital among early participants. https://lnkd.in/eY7nnWtF