NEW YORK and TORONTO, Oct. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, and CIBC Mellon, its long-established Canadian joint venture with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, have announced the integration of their respective securities lending desks effective today. The integration establishes BNY Mellon’s Securities Finance business as one of the largest providers of securities lending services in the world, with trading offices in New York, Pittsburgh Toronto, London and Hong Kong.
James Slater, Global Head of Securities Finance at BNY Mellon, said: “As an enhancement to BNY Mellon’s global leadership position within the securities finance industry, this integration builds on our respective strengths, broadens our capabilities in the markets we serve and provides our clients with an ever-increasing level of trading expertise and even deeper coverage.”
Rob Ferguson, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets, CIBC Mellon, said, “The alignment of our trading desk teams represents the culmination of years of working together as partners in the CIBC Mellon joint venture. This integration enhances client service across both organizations, with the significant resources and scale of two globally recognized securities lending programs. The BNY Mellon and CIBC Mellon project teams have worked closely to ensure a seamless integration for our respective clients.”
Benefits to clients of the merged group include:
— Five geographic centers of excellence in trading and service delivery will provide a truly global presence;
— BNY Mellon’s global markets expertise will be available to CIBC Mellon clients providing new opportunities for incremental revenue in markets around the world;
— CIBC Mellon’s deep expertise in the Canadian market will be available to BNY Mellon clients, providing the potential for improved returns on Canadian securities; and
— A full suite of daily client reporting with multiple delivery options now available to CIBC Mellon clients will provide reporting integration with Workbench, our award-winning client information delivery platform.
With this milestone, BNY Mellon continues to enhance how it supports the fast-evolving and ever more complex needs of institutional investors globally across the transaction lifecycle through its Investment Services division. Investment Services brings together a broad range of activities – global custody and related services; broker-dealer services; collateral and securities financing solutions; alternative investment services; corporate trust; depositary receipt; clearing; and global payment/working capital solutions – to help our clients in transforming their business models and to provide them with a broader range of multi-faceted solutions delivered in a more seamless fashion.