Bank Of New York Mellon Awards

The Bank of New York Mellon has received first-place rankings in all major categories in Global Investor magazine's 2008 Foreign Exchange Survey, including Best FX Service Overall. Survey respondents represent a broad sampling of global asset managers and hedge funds. Results of this year's survey appear in the March issue of Global Investor.


The Bank of New York Mellon received an unprecedented 24 first-place rankings in this year's survey across all principal areas of FX service, including best FX service overall for real money and hedge fund investors; best research and trading in developed, Asia-Pacific and emerging markets; best FX strategy solutions; best sales coverage; best risk management; and best portfolio management technology.

"When we introduced ourselves as a new company last year, we asked the question, 'Who's helping you?'," said Jorge Rodriguez, managing director and head of global foreign exchange sales for The Bank of New York Mellon. "As this year's survey results indicate, we're redefining the notion of helping our clients. By successfully executing our integration plan, we're moving our business to entirely new levels of capability and performance."

Examples of FX product and service innovations introduced since the debut of The Bank of New York Mellon's Global Markets division last year include the daily distribution of currency research focused on new geographies, the development of a proprietary on-line hedging platform, and a significant expansion of trading activities involving frontier market currencies.

The Global Markets division encompasses The Bank of New York Mellon's foreign exchange, interest-rate and equity risk management businesses. Maintaining nine sales and trading desk locations around the world and active in more than 100 currency markets, Global Markets is a major presence in world financial centers and provides a full array of trading, research and e- commerce products to institutional fund managers, corporations and government entities throughout the world. Additional information is available at www.bnymellon.com/globalmarkets.