State Street Corporation has announced that it has begun working with Putnam Investments on the servicing of the investment management firm’s first actively managed, semi-transparent ETF. Putnam leverages a proxy-based actively managed ETF model for the funds.

Grayscale Investments has announced that it has selected BNY Mellon as an asset servicing provider for Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (OTCQX: GBTC), the flagship product of Grayscale Investments LLC (Grayscale). 

Kevin Carter’s emerging market internet ETF, EMQQ, has had another interesting year, having been up 80 per cent last calendar year, up 25 per cent in the first six weeks of this year and then undergone a period of such extreme volatility that it is largely flat for its year-to-date figures.

ETF specialist firm ULTUMUS, and Alveo, providers of market data integration and analytics solutions for financial services, have announced a partnership to bring together ULTUMUS’s global ETF and index managed data service and Alveo’s data mastering solution Prime. 

21Shares, a Swiss Crypto ETP issuer, has chosen CryptoCompare, a digital asset market data specialist, to provide settlement pricing for all of its single asset ETP data effective 1 June 2021. 

Fund data and information platforms fundinfo.com and etfinfo.com, provided by FE fundinfo will now be available to investors in Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Iceland and Malta.

Apex Group Ltd (“Apex”), a global financial services provider, is providing ETC Group with administrative support and trustee services for BTCetc ETC Group Physical Bitcoin (Ticker: BTCE) an exchange traded cryptocurrency (“ETC”) that tracks the price of Bitcoin, distributed by HANetf Limited (“HANetf”). 

Being the ETF sell-side platform of choice is the goal of Citi, winner of this year’s ETF Express European award for Best ETF Research Provider.

Gemini, a crypto exchange and custodian, has launched a new global offering – Gemini Fund Solutions – to provide fund managers with custody, clearing, trade execution, and other capital markets services tailored to ETFs, closed-end funds, and other fund vehicles. 

The Asset Management Exchange (AMX), part of the Willis Towers Watson group, and asset managers DWS have launched a new pooled fund investment solution, the AMX- Investor Stewardship Service, in partnership with Minerva Analytics, utilising its vote tech solution, VotePlus.