Custodian and fund administrator BNY Mellon has introduced extended dealing hours for Irish UCITS ETFs. Known as ’24×5 ETF Dealing’, the extended hours mean that issuers can now deal Irish UCITS ETFs from Monday morning in Singapore through to Friday afternoon in New York. “We are excited to extend our ETF dealing hours for Irish UCITS products,” said Jeff McCarthy, Global Head of ETF services at BNY Mellon. “It allows ETF issuers to leverage our local support in Asia Pacific and the US, thus providing them with greater distribution and growth potential for their ETFs.”

Guggenheim Investments has placed 39 ETFs on the no-transaction-fee ETF platform, FundVest ETF, recently unveiled by BNY Mellon’s Pershing. William H. Belden, managing director and head of ETF product development at Guggenheim Investments, commented: “Guggenheim’s participation in Pershing’s FundVest ETF platform underscores our ongoing commitment to providing investors access to innovative solutions through our distinctive ETF product line.”

BNY Mellon’s Pershing, a provider of financial business solutions, has launched Fundvest ETF, a no-transaction-fee ETF platform with no purchase minimums or holding period. The solution provides Pershing’s clients with flexibility to deliver a broad range of ETFs to investors while reducing explicit costs.

Markit, a leading global provider of financial information services, has announced that key participants in the exchange-traded fund industry; namely, BlackRock, BNY Mellon and State Street, have accepted Markit’s ETF collateral lists for inclusion in their collateral management schedules. “A lack of standardised criteria, market opacity and the onerous management process for risk departments mean that many market participants have historically not accepted ETFs as collateral. Our lists aim to bring transparency and simplicity to the market, facilitating access to ETFs for use as collateral,” said Pierre Khemdoudi, managing director of securities finance at Markit.

The benefits of exchange-traded funds over the traditional mutual fund structure have driven the growth of these investment products over past decades. As adoption increases investors must be aware of the true cost of ETF investing. To facilitate this experts from Pershing and BNY Mellon have delivered a white paper outlining what investors need to assess when buying an ETF. “It is important for advisors to be as well informed as possible about the apparent and underlying factors that influence the cost of their ownership,” said Justin Fay, vice president and solutions manager for alternative investments and ETFs at Pershing.