Cross-Border Fund Services

Specialist services for globally distributed funds

We go above so you can go beyond 

To distribute funds globally, asset managers must navigate varying market practices, regulatory frameworks, and investor preferences while focusing on operational efficiencies and scalability. With constant market competition and client demands, you must constantly evaluate new fund vehicles, asset classes, and jurisdictions to stay ahead and win with investors.

As specialists in cross-border fund servicing, our experts help you navigate these market complexities. Working on a single global technology platform and as one global team, we streamline data flows, enhance operational efficiency, and improve scalability. Our oversight tools help ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, while our shareholder servicing team provides a seamless onboarding and servicing experience for investors across jurisdictions.

While you focus on investment performance and client relationships, we handle the details that differentiate and help grow your business.

What We Offer

  • Custody and Fund Services

    Specialist expertise across the full suite of custody and fund services

  • Transfer Agency

    Global transfer agency and shareholder servicing

  • Depositary & Trustee

    Expert global trustee and depositary servicing

  • Foreign Exchange

    Operational and strategic FX services and technology

  • Securities Lending

    Tailored programs to deliver performance, control and transparency

  • Technology and Data Services

    Technology and data services for your operating model

  • Alternative Fund Services

    Custody, administration and investor services for liquid and illiquid assets

  • ETF Services

    Comprehensive custody and administration services for ETFs

  • Investment Operations

    Open architecture platform of technology and managed services

About Cross-Border Fund Services

We focus on servicing Luxembourg and Ireland domiciled UCITS and non-UCITS, U.K., U.S., Cayman, and Hong Kong domiciled funds.


Benefit from specialist expertise and regulatory intelligence to support distribution in Europe, the Greater China region, Latin America, the U.S., and Japan.

We align your service teams with your location, domiciles, and markets of distribution, to offer a tailored, high-quality service experience.

A seamless investor experience is a top priority. We treat each investor as a client, delivering high-touch, customized onboarding and servicing as they open accounts and invest into your funds.

With markets moving quickly and data coming from multiple sources, getting access to timely and accurate data in one place is a challenge.


With BBH’s digital client platform, Infuse®, you can access tools that help you oversee your business, address vulnerabilities, and spot new opportunities.

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Fund Distribution Outlook: How to Differentiate Distribution in 2024

An effective distribution strategy is paramount in today’s challenging environment. With slow market growth, regulatory challenges, and increasingly sophisticated investor expectations, it’s arguably easier to retain and upsell to existing investors than acquire new investors. However, there is no one single optimal strategy in the search for success, and instead many disparate elements that must work in unison.

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