Mariano Giralt has been named as BNY Mellon's head of Global Tax Services, responsible for the growth and development of the business.

He was previously head of Tax Services for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and will continue to report to Dan Kramer, head of Global Fund Accounting and Issuer Client Service Delivery at BNY Mellon.

Says Kramer: “When Mariano joined BNY Mellon’s Tax Services team four years ago he was a team of one, now we have 12 people in our Tax Services team, with the ability to expand as client needs arise. The global focus of Mariano’s team will allow us to successfully deliver tax services across our organisation while also providing tax technical support to service our clients.This is part of our strategy to extend services from a regional to a global basis.”

“We educate and assist our clients helping them prepare to comply with a host of new tax measures affecting financial services such as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, the Common Reporting Standard and Financial Transaction Tax,” adds Giralt. “Each client has different needs. The challenge is how we interpret these measures for our diverse range of clients which include governments, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and multinationals.”

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GBST, a global provider of securities transaction and fund administration software for the financial services industry, says that Ian Jack has joined it as chief executive officer for its Capital Markets business in the UK.



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