Your trusted partner.
Where asset safety meets global scale and reach.

BNY delivers asset safety with access to global markets and operational expertise, which empowers you to focus on performance and growth.

Our custody solutions are built to enhance your decision-making through integrated data, analytics and real-time reporting, offering you strategic insight at scale. With BNY you can also access our integrated liquidity, FX and securities financing solutions to help maximize the value of your assets.  

Custody Solutions Highlights

 

Resilient Global
Custody Platform

BNY protects your assets and data so you can focus on investment strategy. We actively manage risk across the custody chain with resilient infrastructure, robust controls and state-of-the-art cybersecurity.

Transparency
Through Data

Our dynamic dashboards, reports and alerts provide clear, actionable insights and are simple to use. With multi-channel connections, you can benefit from real-time access to performance, risk and counterparty data, including benchmarks. Our solutions integrate with your platforms, enabling you to make informed decisions while staying native to your operating environment.

Trusted Connections
to Markets

Providing access to more than 100 global markets through direct connectivity and an actively managed sub-custodian network, we provide you with accelerated market entry and insightful market intelligence. 

Value Delivered through Custody Solutions

 

Secure Your
Assets

As one of the world’s largest global custodians and a designated Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB), client assets are securely safeguarded across the custody chain. Our robust and resilient platform, supported by an active multi-sub-custodian network and state-of-the-art cybersecurity, provides operational continuity and the highest standards of protection for your investments.

Generate Operational
Alpha

We harness cutting-edge technology for easy instruction, combining real-time data insights with tools that guide you to settlement finality. Our contractual settlement models are designed to provide cash availability to mitigate intraday risk, while automated FX capabilities can enhance funding and execution. 

Enhance Decision-Making

Transparent, real-time data empowers you to prioritize exception management, helping to drive greater performance through actionable insights. Delivered through your channel of choice, BNY custody data integrates into your native operating environment. Our risk and forecasting tools highlight emerging priorities and support accelerated decision-making, while digital report cards contextualize performance and identify trends.

Monetize Your
Assets

Our market-leading liquidity solutions and innovative securities finance products can help you unlock new sources of alpha. Securities lending has the potential to generate incremental revenue and can optimize financing with collateral services and a tri-party repo structure. Control FX pricing, execution and netting across accounts to help improve cost-efficiency. Manage and invest cash with access to hundreds of short-term investment vehicles.

SOLUTIONS

Explore our Custody Solutions

Safekeeping, Transactions & Settlements

Asset safekeeping, trade processing and settlement services cover equities, fixed income, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), funds, alternatives, digital assets and physical assets. Our solution supports complex settlement, securities financing and vault safekeeping with global market access.

Asset safekeeping, trade processing and settlement services cover equities, fixed income, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), funds, alternatives, digital assets and physical assets. Our solution supports complex settlement, securities financing and vault safekeeping with global market access.

Cash & Liquidity Services

Multicurrency cash accounts, payment services, cash-sweep offerings and liquidity management solutions support your funding and settlement needs. Integrated FX execution and funding provide efficient cash management, reporting and contractual settlement support.

Multicurrency cash accounts, payment services, cash-sweep offerings and liquidity management solutions support your funding and settlement needs. Integrated FX execution and funding provide efficient cash management, reporting and contractual settlement support.

Corporate Events Management

Voluntary and mandatory corporate action processing, proxy voting, class actions and income collection with contractual postings support timely and accurate event execution. A high-risk corporate action dashboard helps you monitor and control complex events. 

Voluntary and mandatory corporate action processing, proxy voting, class actions and income collection with contractual postings support timely and accurate event execution. A high-risk corporate action dashboard helps you monitor and control complex events. 

Tax Services

Intermediary processing, relief at source, tax reclaims and withholding tax services help manage cross-border tax obligations and support accurate, efficient investor outcomes. 

Intermediary processing, relief at source, tax reclaims and withholding tax services help manage cross-border tax obligations and support accurate, efficient investor outcomes. 

Prime Custody

High touch service tailored to alternatives client needs. We offer subject-matter expertise on global trade settlement exception prioritization and processing; corporate actions and U.S. and foreign tax documentation support; multicurrency cash management optimization; securities lending and collateral management; and repo and reverse repo settlement.

High touch service tailored to alternatives client needs. We offer subject-matter expertise on global trade settlement exception prioritization and processing; corporate actions and U.S. and foreign tax documentation support; multicurrency cash management optimization; securities lending and collateral management; and repo and reverse repo settlement.

Related Services

BNY’s Trustee and Depositary Services offer globally integrated solutions designed to safeguard investors’ assets across jurisdictions. Leveraging deep global expertise, we provide seamless, multi-jurisdictional support that facilitates compliance, transparency and operational efficiency for clients worldwide.

Integration from execution through to custody provides efficient, reliable and transparent post-trade services. Ownership and settlement instructions are accurately and securely transferred to the BNY Custody platform.

Our agency lending program can help you utilize long assets to generate incremental revenue based on intrinsic value. Through principal lending, clients can finance short strategies by using cash and securities held at BNY as collateral to borrow securities.

An integrated solution connects with custody to deliver secure, real-time access to diversified short-term investments. ​

Our global multi-asset solution combines buy-side trading expertise, quantitative insights and a scalable platform to help clients reduce costs, improve trading outcomes and enter new markets efficiently.

A comprehensive solution designed to manage overall transition costs, market risk and operational complexity, guided by your objectives and backed by our enterprise expertise and trade execution capabilities.

Comprehensive collateral management solutions are designed to optimize and secure collateral transactions across global markets.

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