Roxane Fricou has joined Arendt Investor Services as regional chief commercial officer, based in London. She joins from BBH. AIS is in the process of being taken over by Blackfin, a private equity firm.

Matthew Goldblatt has joined BNY as global head of alternatives for client service, asset servicing. Based in Luxembourg, he previously spent 19 years at J.P. Morgan.

Northern Trust has been appointed by Invesco to provide administration, custody and depositary services for its new Ireland-domiciled index tracking mutual fund range, Invesco Markets V ICAV. The new fund range is designed to make Invesco’s swap-based (synthetic) approach to index replication available to mutual fund investors in Europe via investment platforms and other institutional…

Euroclear has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire Uptevia, a France-based corporate trust services provider. Uptevia is currently jointly owned by BNP Paribas and CACEIS. Through Uptevia, Euroclear will add specialist issuer capabilities and reinforce its position in the French market, complementing its existing market infrastructure and post-trade services across key European markets, including Belgium,…

CACEIS has opened a full-service branch in Stockholm. Th new branch is headed by Henrik Reinfeldt, country managing director, and offers a full-capability office that will act as a dedicated hub for the Nordics. The office shares premises with sister companies Amundi and Crédit Agricole CIB.