Year: 2022

Mandatum Asset Management and fund services platform Universal Investment have launched a new open-ended senior secured loan fund for professional investors in Europe. MAM, the asset management arm of Sampo Group, will manage the sub-fund that will invest in the European and Nordic leveraged buyout financing market. Mandatum Global Investment Fund SCSp SICAV-RAIF – UI-Mandatum…

Meghan Palleria has become the latest manager to defect from Brown Brothers Harriman to BNY Mellon, joining as a senior relationship manager in the investment managers segment. She is based in Boston. So far this year, there have been at least 10 publicly known moves from BBH to BNY Mellon.

BNP Paribas has appointed Dodla Rohit Reddy as head of its securities services business in India, effective immediately. He joined BNP Paribas in 2008 and has since held a number of roles in India and France. He is based in Mumbai and reports to Franck Dubois, head of Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas Securities Services,…

Altum Group, a C.I.-based provider of fund, corporate, and family office solutions, has appointed Daniel Gillett as director, private debt & capital markets. Based in Jersey, he joins the corporate services team, and will be focused on further developing the group’s capital markets proposition. He spent over 10 years with Sanne Group Plc, managing accounting…

Cory Thackeray has been appointed as IQ-EQ’s head of Caribbean, a newly created regional leadership position responsible for overseeing strategy, operations and performance across its Cayman, Curaçao and Bermuda offices. Prior to joining IQ-EQ, he was CFO for CrossTower, a crypto investment and trading firm. He has also headed up hedge fund services in North…

Marketnode, the Singapore-based joint venture between Temasek and SGX, has launched Fundnode, an industry-wide investment funds utility using distributed ledger technology. Fundnode will begin by streamlining fund processes, facilitating simplified subscription, redemption, and record-keeping workflows for funds offered to retail investors (Authorised Collective Investment Schemes). Pilot phase participants of Fundnode will include fund distributors, fund…

Apex has announced plans to acquire Mainspring, a UK-based provider of venture capital fund administration and accounting services. Mainspring provides outsourced administration and accounting services to small and medium-sized venture fund managers in the UK. Mainspring also operates an FCA-regulated custody business for fund managers offering managed account investments such as EIS funds. Mainspring has…