Bank of New York Mellon Corporation news centers on a global financial services company tied to capital markets, custody, asset servicing, and investment management. BNY’s updates matter because the company works with major corporate, banking, government, and pension clients and reports on activities that can affect its capital structure, governance profile, and investment management operations.
Common BNY news categories include earnings releases, conference call schedules, financial services conference appearances, preferred stock redemptions, debt issuance, and other capital-structure actions. Because BNY has listed common stock and preferred-related securities, investors often watch disclosures about preferred stock terms, depositary shares, senior notes, and changes to securities outstanding.
BNY also generates governance and fund-related news. Public releases cover board elections, director appointments, stockholder votes at BNY-affiliated funds, and dividend declarations from closed-end funds advised by BNY Mellon Investment Adviser. These items are relevant because they show how the company and its investment management affiliates communicate with investors and fund stockholders.
Regular review of BNY news can help readers follow earnings timing, public-company disclosures, fund announcements, and governance developments connected to one of the best-known names in financial services. For BNY stock research, the most useful headlines are those that explain operating results, capital actions, asset management activity, and material events disclosed by the company.
BNY (NYSE: BNY) will redeem all 10,000 outstanding shares of its Series F Noncumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock and the related 1,000,000 Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/100th interest in a preferred share. The redemption date is September 20, 2026, with payment on September 21, 2026.
According to BNY, each Depositary Share will be redeemed at $1,000 (equivalent to $100,000 per preferred share). This Redemption Payment excludes the separate dividend payable on the Payment Date to holders of record. From the Redemption Date, the Series F Preferred Stock and Depositary Shares will cease to be outstanding and dividends will stop accruing.
BNY (NYSE: BNY) announced that its Board of Directors has elected Vikram “Vik” Malhotra as an independent director, effective October 1, 2026. With his appointment, BNY’s Board will have 12 directors, including 11 independent members.
Malhotra has been a senior partner at McKinsey & Company since 1998, holding leadership roles such as Chairman of the Americas and serving on McKinsey’s Shareholders Council. He also serves on several advisory and nonprofit boards and holds degrees from the Wharton School and the London School of Economics. As of June 30, 2026, BNY oversees $62.6 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $2.2 trillion in assets under management.
BNY (NYSE: BNY) announced that Chief Financial Officer Dermot McDonogh will speak at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference in New York at 9:45 a.m. ET on Monday, September 14, 2026. A live and archived audio webcast will be accessible via BNY’s investor relations website until October 14, 2026.
BNY (NYSE: BNY) announced its schedule to report financial results and host conference calls for the fourth quarter 2026 and each quarter of 2027. Earnings releases will be issued around 6:30 a.m. Eastern time, with related conference calls and live audio webcasts at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on the same days.
Investors can access materials and webcasts via BNY's Investor Relations website or join by phone using the provided U.S. and international dial-in numbers and passcode 200200. Webcast replays will be available approximately four hours after each event.
BNY Mellon Municipal Bond Infrastructure Fund (NYSE: DMB) declared a monthly distribution of $0.0500 per common share, payable on September 1, 2026 to shareholders of record on and ex-dividend date of August 18, 2026. According to the Fund, this matches the July distribution and is part of its intention to make regular level-rate monthly payouts, which may at times include net investment income, accumulated undistributed income, or return of capital. The Fund cautions that distribution rates and policy may change with market conditions and portfolio performance.
Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) announced a strategic collaboration with BNY (NYSE: BNY) on August 4, 2026 to enhance digital asset infrastructure for institutional markets. The relationship integrates BNY's Digital Asset Custody platform with Galaxy's proof-of-stake expertise to support staking within a single institutional servicing model, subject to regulatory review.
Galaxy will also act as a design partner to help advance BNY's digital asset platform infrastructure. Eligible institutional clients can access staking alongside custody, fund accounting, tax reporting, payments and client reporting, aiming to streamline participation in digital asset markets while maintaining BNY's governance and operational safeguards.
BNY (NYSE: BNY) launched global Digital Transfer Agency (TA) capabilities, extending its fund servicing to digitally native funds across multiple jurisdictions and blockchains. The platform supports end-to-end lifecycle servicing for both digital and traditional asset funds, integrating tokenization, distribution and custody.
Initial issuers include BNY Investments Dreyfus, Baillie Gifford and BlackRock. Offerings feature BLIQUID tokens for a digitally native money market fund, Baillie Gifford’s BAGEY tokenized fund, and BlackRock’s BSTBL tokenized share class. BNY cites approximately $8.6 trillion in assets serviced, 7.6 million investor accounts, $62.6 trillion in assets under custody/administration and $2.2 trillion in assets under management as of June 30, 2026, positioning it to support growth in on-chain fund structures.
LemonEdge, a modern fund accounting platform for private markets, completed a $21 million Series A round to accelerate product development and expansion in the US and Europe. The round was led by Blackstone Innovations Investments and joined by BNY (NYSE: BNY) and Sidekick Partners, bringing total funding to $30+ million.
LemonEdge appointed David T. O'Malley as Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair and Katharine Briggs as Chief Growth Officer to support its next growth phase. The company plans to use the funding to win new clients and execute its 2026–2027 innovation roadmap for private markets infrastructure.
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (NYSE: DHF) declared a monthly cash dividend of $0.0175 per share from net investment income, payable on August 20, 2026 to shareholders of record and ex-dividend on August 6, 2026. The dividend matches the Fund’s June distribution.
BNY (NYSE: BK) priced an underwritten public offering of 500,000 depositary shares, each representing a 1/100th interest in Series N Noncumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, with a $100,000 liquidation preference per preferred share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share). The public offering price is $1,000 per depositary share, for a total offering size of $500,000,000. Dividends accrue at 6.150% per year from issuance to September 20, 2031, and thereafter reset to the five-year Treasury rate plus 1.868%, when, as and if declared and subject to legal funds availability.
From September 20, 2031, on any dividend payment date, BNY may redeem the Series N preferred stock at $100,000 per share (equivalent to $1,000 per depositary share) plus any declared and unpaid dividends. The offering, led by a syndicate of major banks, is expected to close on July 23, 2026. According to BNY, net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.