Global Custodian Magazine

Infobox Magazine
title = Global Custodian
image_caption = Global Custodian Fall 2007 Issue Cover
editor = Dominic Hobson
editor_title = Editor-in-Chief
frequency = Quarterly
circulation = 20000-30000 (2005)
category = Trade journal
company = Asset International
publisher = Asset International
firstdate = 1989
country = flag|United States, flag|United Kingdom
language = English
website = [http://home.globalcustodian.com www.globalcustodian.com]
issn = 1047-8736

Global Custodian Magazine is the trade publication covering the international securities services industry. [http://home.globalcustodian.com 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.

History

Founded in 1989 by Dominic Hobson and Charlie Ruffel, 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 [http://www.thomasmurray.com custody fees, ratings and research 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.

Special features

Every Global Custodian Magazine's issue comes with one or two/three [http://home.globalcustodian.com/surveysarchive.do/ annual surveys reports] followed by special articles about rated providers and their results, in eight special categories that [http://home.globalcustodian.com 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

See also

*Custodian bank
*Frederick L. A. Grauer
*Global Custodian Multimedia
*Opportunities and Challenges in the European Securities Services Industry

External links

* [http://home.globalcustodian.com GlobalCustodian.com web site]
* [http://directories.globalcustodian.com/directories/ Global Custodian Directories]
* [http://survey.globalcustodian.com/surveys/timetable/index.jsf Global Custodian surveys time-table]
* [http://www.rbcdexia-is.com/documents/en/FeatureArticles/RBC%20Does%20Outsourcing%20Differently.pdf Sample featured article about RBC Dexia]
* [http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/20050822gs.html RBC Global Services ‘top-rated’ for a record 17th consecutive year by Global Custodian magazine's annual Agent Bank Survey for 2005.]
* [http://specials.ft.com/globalcustody/FT34TW0WPOC.html Straight-through processing - trades that never touch the sides]
* [http://www.pressindex.com/index/source/titre_presse.asp?nIdSrc=20250 www.pressindex.com]