Global Custodian Magazine

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Global Custodian
Editor-in-Chief Dominic Hobson
Categories Trade journal
Frequency Quarterly
Circulation 20000-30000 (2005)
Publisher Asset International
First issue 1989
Company Asset International
Country Flag of the United States United States, Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language English
Website www.globalcustodian.com
ISSN 1047-8736

Global Custodian Magazine is the trade publication covering the international securities services industry. GlobalCustodian.com refers to website of Global Custodian Magazine, which is updated daily and provides news and events coverage of the custody and securities industry.

Published five times a year, Global Custodian Magazine provides analysis and commentary on the latest news and events taking place in the international securities industry. The magazine is defined by a series of annual surveys that have become benchmarks for the industry. GlobalCustodian.com provides daily news on the securities services industry as well as multimedia content.


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[edit] History

Founded in 1989 by Dominic Hobson and Charlie Ruffle, the original focus of the magazine was on securities processing operations: articles that explore how shares trade and settle and are held. Its editorial scope has since expanded to include fund administration, securities lending and financing, prime brokerage and the infrastructure of the global securities industry (CSDs, ICSDs, payments systems and other industry bodies and initiatives). The editorial content of the magazine is now also supported by industry-standard surveys that address how the performance of custodian banks, fund administrators, prime brokers and tri-party securities financing providers compare with each other and within individual markets.

In 2001 Thomas Murray, the research-based information, ratings and consultancy group and Global Custodian have agreed to work together with the aim of creating the most comprehensive and robust analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of custodian banks globally. The goal was to combine the research-based analyses, owned by Thomas Murray, of major custodial providers and Central Securities Depositories (CSDs), with the pre-eminent surveys of custodian bank client perceptions owned by Global Custodian.

Global Custodian recently became one of the first publications covering the financial services industry to add multimedia content to its site when it launched Global Custodian Multimedia. It features weekly podcasts and videos about the industry. Additionally, in 2007 the publication released a documentary about the state of the securities services in Europe.


[edit] Special features

Every Global Custodian Magazine's issue comes with one or two/three annual surveys reports followed by special articles about rated providers and their results, in eight special categories that GlobalCustodian.com runs:

  • Agent Banks in Emerging Markets Survey
  • Global Custody Survey
  • Private Equity Fund Administration Survey
  • Prime Brokerage Survey
  • Tri-Party Securities Financing Survey
  • Mutual Fund Administration Survey
  • Hedge Fund Administration Survey
  • Agent Banks in Major Markets Survey

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