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For 230 years, we’ve been by your side through revolution and war, recession and depression. Together, we’ve surmounted every challenge.

2023 will be no different. Here’s how we can help you today.

Outsourced Trading

Outsourced Trading is a service that assumes the execution responsibilities for an investment manager’s trading desk, either replacing or supplementing their trading team.

Our Outsourced Trading offering was created on the foundation of xBK, a BNY Mellon trading group, who services our internal investment management companies.

In 2018, we overhauled the existing buyside trading capabilities through investments in technology, analytics, reporting and established a dedicated data science team. These efforts have created a modern and scalable infrastructure and allowed us to enhance execution outcomes through automation, innovation and a systematic workflow.

Our team has significant expertise in supporting domestic and global trading across Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives and Foreign Exchange. We understand the needs of investment managers and the complexity of buyside trading workflows.

*Disclaimer

Outsourced Trading is offered through BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC only to Institutional Clients in the US and select countries in EMEA where permitted by local law. Not all products and services are offered in all countries.

Cash - Invest

The abrupt slowdown in global economic activity has seen investors liquidate risk-on positions to ensure that they have ready access to available cash. Accordingly, your ability to invest cash in secure, highly liquid and short-term vehicles has become a critical requirement. Here’s how we can help:

Short-Term Investment LiquidityDirect

The New LiquidityDirectSM

Now available: Mutual Funds, Interest-Bearing Demand Deposits, enhanced Focused Investing Options and Sponsored Cleared Repo Capabilities

LiquidityDirect gives you access to a comprehensive set of short-term investment options, all in one place. With almost $15 trillion in transaction flow annually, LiquidityDirect provides access to a suite of more than 100 investments vehicles – and now incorporates access to mutual funds, enhanced focused investing options, interest-bearing demand deposit accounts and sponsored cleared repo capabilities—to help you maximize liquidity, manage risks and improve performance.

The new integration with SAP’s Treasury Management workstation, creates even more operational efficiencies for self-directed cash management, payments, and investments. This build upon the platform’s existing integrations with several leading treasury workstations and cash management systems, including Indus Valley Partners, GTreasury and Hazeltree—allowing LiquidityDirect to be seamlessly accessed in a way that works best for clients.

These enhancements represent our commitment to providing you with widespread and seamless support across the investment cycle.

Click here to see how this can all work for you.

Dreyfus

Comprehensive Liquidity Solutions Provider

Dreyfus is one of the largest, most trusted liquidity managers in the industry. Our strategies span all major asset classes including prime, Treasury, US government, municipals and ultra-short duration fixed income and are designed to meet the operating, core and strategic cash needs of our clients.

With its most recent initiative, Dreyfus announced the launch of the new SPARKSM share class for the Dreyfus Government Cash Management fund.

The SPARKSM shares offer clients the power and flexibility to give to a selected charitable organization while managing their liquidity. The SPARKSM shares are designed to support a wide variety of charitable organizations, allowing clients to align with their philanthropic goals. This new share class addresses the expressed interest from our clients for impactful cash investment solutions.

The information we are providing regarding the Dreyfus Fund(s) is only for your consideration. It is not a recommendation or an endorsement by us, nor are we providing you with investment advice. The Dreyfus Funds are also not obligations of or guaranteed in any way by The Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) or its affiliates, or any other bank.
With respect to a Dreyfus Fund, the fund’s investment adviser is BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc., a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, which is also the parent corporation of BNYM. BNYM provides investment advisory and other services to the Dreyfus Funds, and is compensated for such services.
You should carefully read the prospectus of each fund (including Dreyfus Funds) for more information.
Share Class offered only in the US to Institutional clients.

Custody

Custody

In highly volatile markets, cash balances are sometimes best left unallocated and ready to be called upon when needed. That’s why we provide a range of business-critical custody services through our established, on-the-ground presence in more than 100 markets.

In addition, you can improve the oversight, security and management of your funds by integrating custody with Transfer Agency and Fund Accounting at BNY Mellon. Our Integrated Fund Services leverage these capabilities to address your complex challenges, such as the need to access liquidity and obtain data-driven insights.

Cleared Reverse Repo

Cleared Reverse Repo

By investing your cash through our Sponsored Cleared Repo program, you provide the cash leg in a cleared repo transaction, providing liquidity overnight in exchange for US Treasuries. In addition, you ultimately face the FICC clearing house as counterparty on the trade, minimizing your credit risk.

ICS/CDARS

Insured Cash Sweep

As market participants seek safe harbors in today’s volatile markets, placing large cash balance into deposit accounts or money market funds is an obvious solution. ICS is a vehicle that allows you to invest cash simply, conveniently and with peace of mind.

Using ICS you can split large cash holdings into $250,000 segments across multiple deposit accounts or money funds, allowing you to gain yield while still enjoying Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) coverage, making the product an ideal solution when principal protection is your primary goal.

CDARS

Certificates of Deposit are the perfect choice for investors looking to protect assets while still picking up some incremental yield. For conservative market participants seeking FDIC insurance, however, such CD investments are only covered up to the $250,000 level.

CDARS offers you a way to maximize your CD investment, enabling you to split a large holding into $250,000 increments among different issuers, letting you to establish an outsize CD position, with the security of knowing that your investment is covered by the FDIC.

Cash - Raise

In these uncertain times, the ability to swiftly and efficiently raise cash is an absolute necessity. Cleared Repo provides you a direct and cost-effective way to access funding.

Sponsored Cleared Repo

Cleared repo at a central counterparty (CCP) offers enhanced liquidity in short-term funding markets. Sponsored membership enables you to take full advantage of CCP membership, allowing you to raise cash via repo easily without the responsibility of full CCP membership, since we meet those obligations on your behalf as your sponsor.

Execution

Amid volatile markets we provide a full-service execution offering, encompassing Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Equities trading, seamlessly integrated into our custody ecosystem.

Whether you wish to trade electronically, via voice or using algos, or prefer to transact with us directly or on third-party venues, we can accommodate your requirements.

Foreign Exchange

Foreign Exchange

Managing currency exposure is an essential requirement for all investors active in today’s fast-moving international markets.

Your Complete Solution

Enjoy the convenience of a trusted, comprehensive FX provider that can be counted on to handle all of your currency trading, hedging, and payment needs. Our FX solutions let you focus on returns. Click here to learn more.

Latest News: T+1

As you are aware, a shortened settlement cycle in the US and Canada begins May 2024. As leaders in the financial industry, we have proactively developed strategies and solutions to seamlessly navigate the transition from T+2 to T+1.

Fixed Income

Fixed Income

As markets experience a flight-to-safety, fixed income can represent a classic safe-harbor investment. We trade a wide variety of debt securities and can connect you to a unique universe of counterparties, including broker-dealers, fund managers, family offices and wealth managers.

Our Short-Duration offering provides liquidity and easy access through Treasury Bills, Commercial Paper and Floating Rate Notes. Meanwhile, in Long Duration we can deliver customization and higher yield though Corporate Bonds, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Agency Debt.

Equities

Equities

All sell-offs end eventually, and when they do, the ability to buy back into risk-on positions is a critical requirement.

Our full-service equities business can accommodate your Outsourced Execution needs in more than 90 global markets, enabling you to capitalize on this buying opportunity. Whether you're taking positions through ETFs, seeking Corporate Equities services or looking for Synthetic Equities exposure, we can position you to take full advantage of the recovery.

Hedging

Hedging

Investors navigating volatile markets demand access to the OTC instruments they need to mitigate their risk exposure. That’s why we can facilitate your entry into a wide range of derivatives in both the cleared and non-cleared markets in order to help you achieve your hedging strategy.

Derivatives

We can execute OTC derivatives trades with highly rated clients in both the bilateral and cleared markets.

We structure OTC products referencing a variety of benchmarks, tenors and currencies. Among derivative contracts we can trade: Fixed/Floating Swaps; Caps/Floors; Swaptions; Callable/Cancellable Swaps; STIRTs; FX Forwards; Cross-currency Swaps; Equity Total Return Swaps.

Non-Cleared Margin Rules

Some risk exposures can only be hedged using customized instruments such as non-cleared derivatives. These products have specific margin requirements attached to them, however.

If you’re required to post collateral on non-cleared derivatives, we have a comprehensive lineup of services and products that will let you comply with the rules conveniently and cost-effectively, including collateral segregation and optimization, margin calculation and messaging.

Cross-Border

At a time when fulfilling your cross-border payment obligations and hedging your international exposure is more important than ever, we have a full set of solutions to meet all of your FX requirements.

FX Payments

If you’re looking to eliminate the need to maintain local currency accounts, pay beneficiaries in over 120 currencies and receive support from local client services teams, look no further.

Our FX payment network can securely process your cross-border remittance activity both efficiently and cost-effectively.

FX Overlay

If you’re managing FX exposure in today’s volatile currency markets, we can provide hedging solutions to accommodate your needs.

Share Class Hedging can insulate your fund investors around the globe from excessive currency volatility, while Portfolio Overlay strategies can mitigate your FX exposure within an investment portfolio.

Additional Alpha

When traditional investment returns come under pressure, the ability to generate supplemental revenue from your existing portfolio can help maintain performance.

Triparty Collateral Management makes it easy for you to not only clear and settle your assets, but also secure financing against your portfolio. In addition to monetizing assets in Triparty through repo markets you can also lend your securities, collecting income from borrowers on assets that are otherwise sitting idle in your portfolio.

Securities Lending

Securities Lending

Our Agency Lending Program connects you to a large community of creditworthy borrowers. As a lender, you choose which assets to loan out, the terms of the loan and the borrowers to which you’re willing to lend.

As your agent lender, we collect collateral from the borrower against the loan and continuously monitor the trade, issuing margin calls and ensuring the borrower fulfills its obligations.

To learn more about how Securities Lending operates, click on the overview thumbnail or read our Stock Lending: Dispelling the Myths article.

Now Available: Sponsored Cleared Agency MBS Repo at FICC. In a market first, sponsored clients can enjoy the benefits of central clearing without the requirement of full-service FICC membership. To learn more about this new enhancement, please read about it in the Newsroom.

Securities Lending Latest

The Short Story

Introducing a new installment of our series of video shorts focused on securities finance.

The Short Story is designed to cut through the noise, presenting a succinct, on-point update on the latest market developments without taking up more than a couple of minutes of your time.

Our goal is to keep us all connected and informed about what’s going on in the securities finance industry during these unprecedented times. As such, we’ll be inviting market participants of all stripes to contribute, including regulators and analysts, academics and researchers and, of course, borrowers and lenders.

Current Contributors:

Paul Solway
Head of Securities Finance Asia-Pacific
BNY Mellon

Latest Videos

Paul Solway, BNY Mellon

Paul Solway discusses the securities lending trends in three key Asian markets and what this means for offshore investors.

Triparty

Triparty

Triparty is an integrated system that outsources many of the collateral management processes that underpin financial transactions to BNY Mellon in our capacity as a triparty agent.

Our Platform

Our platform enables you to efficiently centralize how you manage your collateral, opening up a world of new possibilities for utilizing your assets to meet your investment objectives. Among the trading activities we can support in triparty are repurchase agreements (repos), securities lending and margin segregation.

The Pandemic Stress Test:
US Government Securities Clearance & Repo During Covid-19

The volatility of March 2020 represented the most serious test for US repo markets since the 2008 global financial crisis, as investors sought to bolster their cash liquidity while also seeking safety in US Treasuries. BNY Mellon was at the center of these events.

In our latest piece of thought leadership, we share new insight into how US repo markets performed amid the volatility.

Insights

To ensure you see multiple perspective, we provide you with access to unique data on investor flows and behavior, as well as market-leading thought leadership that takes you inside the forces that are driving today’s markets.

Aerial View

Aerial View

If you’re looking for a unique vantage point drawn from an independent perspective, Aerial View is the indispensable field guide for you. Informed by intelligence from industry experts, our diverse roster of clients as well as our in-house economists and strategists, it gives you the inside track on the issues you need to be thinking about.

Turning Treasury Reform Talk into Action

iFlow

iFlow

Our reimagined iFlow is a powerful, newly enhanced insight tool, providing you with unrivalled perspective into how investment flows in currencies, fixed income and equities are moving throughout the global financial system. Based on anonymized and aggregated information gathered from more than $46.6 trillion in assets under custody, iFlow reflects both the broad diversity of BNY Mellon’s client base and our position at the center of global financial markets.

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BNY Mellon: Expect Certainty

As the world’s largest custodian and one of its most creditworthy banks, BNY Mellon proudly continues its 230-year tradition of helping to secure our clients’ assets by providing them the widest possible range of services to navigate today’s volatile markets. Here are just some of our vital statistics.

BNY Mellon – By the Numbers1

Assets under custody and/or administration:

$46.9 trillion

Average Triparty collateral management balances:

$6.04 billion

Assets under management:

$1.9 trillion

Total revenue:

$4.5 billion2

Market capitalization:

$34.6 million

Total capital ratio:

14.8%

Our Credit Rating3

Credit category Moody's S&P Fitch DBRS
Long-term deposits Aa1 AA- AA+ AA (High)
Long-term senior debt Aa2 AA- AA AA (High)
Subordinated debt NR A NR NR
Short-term deposits P-1 A-1+ F1+ R-1 (High)
Commercial paper P-1 A-1+ F1+ R-1 (High)
Outlook Stable Stable Stable Stable

1All values as of June 30, 2023.

2For three months ended June 30, 2023.

3For The Bank of New York Mellon as of June 30, 2023.

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