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Custody Operations
& Asset
Servicing
Behind every institutional investor's portfolio sits a custody bank — safeguarding assets, processing corporate actions, collecting income, and providing settlement support across global markets. This workshop explains exactly how custody operations work and the careers it creates.
About
What This Workshop Covers
This workshop explains how custody banks safeguard financial assets and provide asset servicing solutions to institutional clients — pension funds, asset managers, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds. Participants learn settlement support, safekeeping functions, corporate actions processing, income collection, and client reporting operations. Global custodians such as BNY Mellon, State Street, Citibank, and HSBC Securities Services are among the largest employers of operations professionals in India — this workshop builds the foundational understanding needed to target those roles with confidence.
Topics
Fundamentals Covered
Introduction to Custody Operations
What custody is, why institutional investors use custodians, the difference between global custodians (BNY Mellon, State Street, JPMorgan, Citi, HSBC) and local/sub-custodians, and the scale of assets under custody globally.
Asset Safekeeping Process
How securities are held in segregated nominee accounts, the legal framework separating client assets from custodian assets (client money rules, CASS), CSD account structure, and daily position reconciliation against CSD records.
Settlement Support Services
How custodians receive client settlement instructions via SWIFT (MT54x series), enrich with SSIs, submit to local CSDs, monitor settlement status, chase fails, and report settlement outcomes back to clients.
Securities Servicing
Ongoing securities administration — proxy voting, securities lending operations, FX conversion for non-base currency transactions, and tax services including withholding tax relief and reclaim processing.
Client Asset Reporting
Standard custody reporting — daily statement of holdings (MT535), transaction reports (MT536), income reports — client portal access, bespoke reporting requirements, and NAV support for fund administrator clients.
Custodian Bank Functions
Full spectrum of custodian services — core custody, fund administration, transfer agency, securities lending, collateral management, FX, and treasury — and how these functions interconnect in a global custodian's operating model.
Corporate Actions Overview
Mandatory corporate actions (stock splits, mergers, spin-offs) vs voluntary (rights issues, tender offers, conversions) — notification timelines, SWIFT CA messaging (MT564/565/566/568), entitlement calculation, and election processing.
Income Collection Processing
Equity dividends and fixed income coupon collection — ex-date, record date, payment date processing, projection vs actual reconciliation, failed income breaks, and withholding tax deduction and reclaim workflows.
Operational Controls
Controls specific to custody operations — segregation of client assets, daily position and cash reconciliation, corporate action entitlement checks, income projection vs actual monitoring, and four-eyes authorisation on client instructions.
Global Custody Network
How global custodians manage networks of sub-custodians across 100+ markets — sub-custodian selection and monitoring, network management teams, market entry and exit decisions, and how instructions flow through the chain from client to local market.
Outcomes
Skills Developed
- Understanding of custody services — safekeeping, settlement, corporate actions, income, and client reporting workflows
- Asset servicing knowledge — how custodians service securities across their full lifecycle on behalf of institutional clients
- Client servicing awareness — how custody operations teams interact with and report to institutional investor clients
- Settlement coordination skills — instruction processing, fail management, and CSD interaction in a custody context
- Operational monitoring understanding — daily reconciliation, income projection tracking, and corporate action entitlement checks
First workshop is FREE for every college. Individual students are also welcome to register and attend at no cost for the first session.
Career Opportunities
Roles You Can Target
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