Custody: Remaining Active in Corporate Actions

Bank Technology News, December, 2007 by Michael Sisk

The custody business is not generally viewed as a dynamic corner of the market-and that may never change. But large institutions face mounting challenges around the management of their positions in a global environment, particularly overseeing the daily corporate among their thousands of holdings, and custodians such as JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services are starting to innovate in this staid arena to meet those needs.

JPMorgan is one of the giants in the industry with $15.6 trillion in assets under custody; it supports clients investing in more than 90 markets. At any one time there can be 10,000 to 15,000 open corporate events across global markets, and JPMorgan expects total corporate actions supported this year to exceed 135,000. What's more, that rate has been...

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