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Custody Services

The Custody Services ensures seamless and timely transactions, regardless of location, time, market, or currency, ensuring that obligations are met on their respective due dates.

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Custody is a service provided by banks and other intermediaries which involves holding (and typically administering) securities on behalf of third parties. The provision of custodial services is essential to the proper functioning of financial markets. Custody as an industry originated with investors needing to keep securities certificates in a secure location, typically a bank with large vaults.

As the financial markets have become more complex, custody has evolved into a complex multi-trillion-dollar industry no longer characterized by physical safekeeping but by a range of information and banking services.

The fixed income market is among the world's most complex. If you want to understand how this market works, then you need to begin with the fundamental concept of a bond.

Global custody is a big business. In 2012, the total value of worldwide custody assets was more than USD 120 trillion, according to specialist custody website globalcustody.net. The industry is dominated by four players which account for over two-thirds of such assets. The safekeeping of assets such as equities and bonds is of paramount importance in light of the global financial crisis. Anyone working in the asset administration industry needs to know the workings of global custody.

Role of Custodians
Types of Custodians
Custodian database
Registration, Possession & Control
Collateral & use of client assets
Corporate Actions
Security Registration and Transfer

Recruits to the custody industry, operations, corporate actions, custody staff working in the banking or asset management industry, and client service representatives.