Securities Lending

Dedicated to Our Client's Success

Since 1977, at the core of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing's securities lending program has been a dedication to delivering added value to our clients through a disciplined process of generating returns and managing risk, all while focusing on maximizing client flexibility.

Our program is customized to your individual needs as we partner with you, providing a consultative approach to securities lending solutions. We'll take the time to become familiar with your business and staff, and to fully understand your expectations. Based upon an individual set of goals, we'll develop a well-balanced plan that will put your idle assets to work to capture incremental income.

We provide an industry-leading suite of securities lending services that delivers unparalleled advantages to clients worldwide. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing features tremendous scale, breadth of services, exceptional flexibility and unsurpassed resources all in one package that is designed for our clients' success. In recognizing that the needs of our clients come first, we are well-positioned to deliver results by utilizing performance resources, execution tools and system technology to meet any requirement.

Experience & Depth

With more than three decades committed to securities lending, we have leveraged the years of industry expertise and talents of our staff, our superior service capabilities and our investments in technology to place at the forefront of the financial services industry.

Our clients represent a broad spectrum of worldwide institutional investors, including:

• Public Funds
• Mutual Funds
• Investment Managers
• Corporations
• Taft-Hartley Plans
• Endowments & Foundations
• Healthcare Companies
• Insurance Companies
• Nuclear Decommissioning Trusts

Reasons to Choose BNY Mellon Asset Servicing

Performance: A few ways we continually strive to maximize returns are by providing trading 24-hours a day through global trading desks, lending to a large network of worldwide borrowers, utilizing our proprietary Internet auction platform as well as auto-borrow systems and industry performance resources and execution tools, providing on-site, expert cash collateral management, benchmarking our results, and continually reviewing our strategy to ensure superior risk-adjusted returns.

Investment Strategy: Adhering to your approved investment guidelines, our collateral reinvestment experts invest collateral for a steady return while focusing upon the preservation of principal, interest rate sensitivity and credit risk.

Risk Management & Compliance: Chief among BNY Mellon Asset Servicing's reinvestment objectives is the preservation of your principal. We accomplish this by maintaining a prudent level of liquidity, implementing policies and procedures to monitor and control our investment guidelines, monitoring the credit quality of our issuers, and performing regularly scheduled tests to identify the interest rate sensitivity of our reinvestment portfolio.

Superior Client Service: We recognize your need to stay informed. You will get individual attention from a skilled client service officer dedicated to your account. Your client service officer will provide you with timely communications, ensure daily and monthly reporting requirement, conduct on-site visits, and be available for presentations to your staff.

Award-winning Reporting: BNY Mellon Asset Servicing offers you one of the most comprehensive on-line reporting packages in the industry detailing earnings, volumes or spread information in a variety of formats as well as providing a series of collateral and reinvestment information. Our robust reporting capabilities have earned "Best-in-Class" honors in leading industry surveys.

Global Distribution: Our worldwide securities lending services utilize BNY Mellon Asset Servicing's subcustodian network. One of the most important criteria in selecting subcustodians has been their ability to handle securities lending transactions.

Technology: Our entire lending, reinvestment and reporting platform is supported by our leading technology structure. We have state-of-the-art automated systems to monitor mark-to-market procedures, pending security sales, income collection, corporate actions and other critical components of the lending process. Moreover, our technology drives our program benchmarking and other tools that are designed to improve trade profitability and ensure best execution is being achieved.

I-Bid Internet Auction Platform: Utilizing our proprietary Internet auction technology, we are able to offer individual securities, multiple securities and entire portfolios worldwide to a large, diverse group of borrowers simultaneously. This interactive bidding methodology gives borrowers the flexibility to structure the transaction to deliver their best possible bid. Subsequently, I-Bid presents borrowers with added value over other open auction platforms and thus enhances the lending value of our clients' securities.

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Contacts

For more information regarding our services, please contact one of the following professionals.