Sanne, the UK-listed provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has appointed Adrian Bedoya as director, hedge – North America. He will lead Sanne’s hedge business and grow the product offering across North America. He joins from Virtus by FIS, where he was head of portfolio accounting.

State Street has struck a deal with RIMES, the U.S.-based data partner for asset managers, asset owners, and service providers, to enhance State Street Alpha, its front-to-back solution. Through this partnership, State Street Alpha clients will benefit from RIMES’ expertise and experience with the global index provider marketplace, leveraging its operational capabilities and infrastructure. This…

Northern Trust and Equity Data Science (EDS), in which Northern Trust has a strategic stake, have collaborated with Snowflake, the data cloud company, to enhance secure data sharing and onboarding for asset servicing clients using Northern’s Investment Data Science capabilities. Leveraging Snowflake’s data-sharing and cloud technology, Northern Trust and EDS can provide a better, faster…

Apex has become one of the first global fund administrators to receive regulatory approval to operate in India’s Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) International Financial Centre. GIFT City is a planned IFSC which is being developed as a global financial and IT services hub, the first of its kind in India. With this latest…

Frédéric (Fred) Perard has joined SuisseTechPartners as head of Europe. STP is a fintech company providing front-, middle- and back-office solutions with a portfolio management system called PMplus. Perard left BNP Paribas Securities Services in 2020, where he was most recently head of Luxembourg and the international financial centres. He will remain in Luxembourg.

Liam Stanbridge has joined BNY Mellon as head of global tax. In this role, Stanbridge will focus on leading client servicing tax solutions for institutional clients and leading the transformation and digitisation of the bank’s tax services offering. He will partner closely with BNY Mellon’s new head of tax product development, Stuart Winny, who has…

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM), which has USD2.6trn AuM, has selected J.P. Morgan’s securities services division, part of the corporate & investment bank, to support a new global operations model using its investment middle office services capabilities. JPMAM is commencing a multi-year initiative to implement this model, which includes the provision of middle office services,…

IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based investor services provider, has acquired Greyline Partners, LLC, a U.S. provider of governance and regulatory compliance solutions for private capital, hedge funds and investors. Founded in 2016, Greyline has 56 people across its six offices located in San Francisco, Dallas, New York, Chicago, Boston and London. Also part of Greyline is GCM…