BNY Mellon Completes Next Phase of European Integration Project

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in securities servicing, has been appointed by Jyske Bank, the second largest independent bank in Denmark to provide global custody services for assets valued at US $11 billion Jyske Bank is headquartered in Silkeborg and supports a range of institutional and wealth management clients. They had managed their own sub-custody network in over 40 markets directly prior to appointing BNY Mellon.

July 14th, 2009 DUBLIN - - CSAM launches first Irish ETFs BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in securities servicing, has been selected by Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) to provide a full range of fund services including accounting, administration, transfer agency and custody services, to support the launch of their first Irish ETFs. The ETFs will be UCITS products and will be based on broad market equity and fixed income indices.

June 28th, 2009 VIENNA - The allocation procedure for the transportation capacities of the Tauern Gas Pipeline project, known as TGL Open Season 2009, starts on 29th June. In this next step of the feasibility study, the market demand will be determined on the basis of binding capacity requests and long-term transportation capacities allocated on a non-discriminatory basis.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - All equity markets post positive returns with North American equity the only exception BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in securities servicing, has today announced the CAPS pooled pension funds performance results in the UK for May 2009. Balanced pooled funds produced positive returns during May 2009 with a median return of 2.2%, turning the year to date returns to April from negative to positive, for the period ending May.

June 3rd, 2009 BOSTON - Sees advantage to early investors in program Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC, the fixed income specialist for BNY Mellon Asset Management, will offer investment strategies that will enable its clients to invest in securities related to the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). Standish said it is initiating these strategies because of strong expressions of interest from its clients.

May 5th, 2009 LONDON - The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV will be sixth largest bank in Belgium The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, the global leader in securities servicing and asset management, today announced it has established The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, a new banking entity that will be the lead European entity for a range of business activities, including global custody, global collateral management and depotbank. By the end of 2009, the new Belgian bank will incorporate activities carried out by the existing BNY Mellon Brussels Branch and, subject to regulatory approval, the Netherlands-based BNY Mellon Asset Servicing B.V.

April 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - Reforms, Demand for Commodities Help Build Financial Cushion Brazil's reforms over the past decade have helped position the country to weather the global economic crisis, and several factors suggest that the equity markets are providing opportunities for value investors, according to BNY Mellon ARX, the BNY Mellon Asset Management unit focused on Brazil. "The benefits of the Real Plan of the 1990s, the commodity boom, and the growing buying power of the expanding middle class have all contributed to strengthening the country's economy," said Jose Alberto Tovar, managing director of BNY Mellon ARX.

March 23rd, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON - Business Volume Continues to Grow Rapidly for Award Winning Group Mellon Transition Management (MTM), the transition management specialist for BNY Mellon Asset Management, has announced the appointment of Tim Wilkinson and his team of transition management professionals to its award-winning global business. The seven-strong group joining MTM will be based in London, increasing the global team representing the business to 50.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in securities servicing, has today announced the CAPS pooled pension funds performance results in the UK for the month of February 2009. - Balanced pooled funds achieved a median return of -5.7% in February 2009 (-6.0% in January 2008) - Over one, three and five years to 28 February 2009, Balanced pooled funds returned -25.0%, -6.9% p.a.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - In the news release, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Announces CAPS Pooled Pension Fund Update for February 2009, issued 24-Mar-2009 by BNY Mellon Asset Servicing over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the first bullet after the first paragraph, should read "Balanced pooled funds achieved a median return of -5.7% in February 2009 (-6.0% in January 2009)" rather than "January 2008" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in securities servicing, has today announced the CAPS pooled pension funds performance results in the UK for the month of February 2009.

August 27th, 2009 Fluor completes joint venture project in KuwaitIRVING, Texas — Fluor Corp. completed a multibillion-dollar project for a joint venture with Dow Chemical Co.

January 30th, 2009 LONDON - Italian shoe brand Jimmy Choo's president Tamara Mellon has confessed that she has over 700 pair of shoes. 'I probably have 700 to 800 pairs as I have always loved shoes and I became particularly obsessed by them in the early nineties,' vogue.co.uk reports Mellon as saying.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot Tuesday visited post offices in Delhi and NCR which had undergone upgradation under Project Arrow. He visited Patparganj post office for inspection and Ghaziabad head post office for interacting with its staff.

June 10th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs.550 crore for the first phase of the Chennai Metro Rail project, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said here Wednesday.

September 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday that the proposed unique multi-purpose national identity cards would be issued to all citizens of the country by 2011. Speaking to newsmen here, Chidambaram informed that in the first phase during the current fiscal, 1.2 crore people in about 3,331 coastal villages and cities would receive the cards.

July 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Fencing of about 1,800 kilometers along the Indo-Bangla border has been completed under Phase-II of the project, Border Security Force (BSF) issued statement informed here on Sunday.he BSF also says that infiltration and cross border movement of militancy along porous stretch of border in Meghalaya and Assam continues to raise concerns. The statement stated that BSF had planed to complete 2,579.22 kilometer of border fencing and 1,422.45 kilometer of road construction along the border under Phase-II at a cost of Rs 4,393.67 crore by 2010.

September 17th, 2009 John Wiley & Sons elects ex-banker to boardHOBOKEN, N.J. — A former bank executive has been elected to the board of directors of John Wiley & Sons Inc., the business publisher said Thursday.

December 28th, 2008 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government Monday allotted 748.97 acres to Jai Balaji Industries for setting up a five-million-tonne integrated steel plant at Raghunathpur in Purulia district. 'We will get another 250 acres over and above this within the next 10-15 days,' company chairman and managing director Aditya Jajodia said after receiving the land allotment order from state industries minister Nirupam Sen.

September 23rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Ambuja Realty Wednesday inaugurated the first phase of its 'Ecospace' business park on the northeastern fringes of the city. Harshavardhan Neotia, chairman of the company, said at the inauguration: "We have a plan to invest Rs.290 crore for the whole project.

January 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - The city-based Dhunseri group is making a Rs.130-crore (Rs.1.3-billion) foray into the IT infrastructure business, generating about 7,000 jobs, a top company company official said here Monday. 'For this twin tower project, we have tied up with the State Bank of India (SBI) for financing,' said Dhunseri chairman and managing director C.K.