State Street has appointed Pauline Wong as head of the Hong Kong SAR and Ilona Chen as head of Taiwan. These newly created roles will report to Mostapha Tahiri, head of Asia Pacific. Wong and Chen will oversee all State Street’s businesses in Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively. Wong joined State Street in 2011 and…
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BBH launches Connectors program
Brown Brothers Harriman has launched BBH Connectors, a cohort of specialist third-party fintech and service providers that bring expertise in areas like ESG data, insurance accounting, class action recovery services, and AI to drive meaningful outcomes for clients. BBH Connectors can be readily integrated through BBH Infomediary, a data integration engine that provides efficient and…
BNY Mellon partners with Saphyre for client onboarding
BNY Mellon has become the latest custody bank to partner with a fintech to improve the client onboarding experience. It is working with Saphyre, which leverages patented AI technology to digitise all pre-trade activities across multilateral counterparties: asset owners, investment managers/hedge funds, broker/dealers, custodians, and prime brokers. The firms are working together to deploy AI…
State Street hires Jason Knight as global head of insurance
State Street has appointed Jason Knight as global head of the firm’s insurance segment. Knight joins from BNY Mellon, where he was most recently head of the insurance segment in the Americas for the asset servicing business.
Hurricane selects SS&C’s front-to-back solution
Hurricane Capital Advisors, a start-up alternative investment management platform, has launched its operations with SS&C‘s front-to-back solution. SS&C will provide fund administration, middle-office solutions, FIX connectivity, hosting and order and execution management systems.
WHEB expands relationship with FundRock
FundRock, a European third-party UCITS ManCo and AIFM that is owned by Apex, has expanded its relationship with sustainable impact investor WHEB Asset Management LLP to provide distribution services through FundRock Distribution S.A. In an extension of FundRock’s existing role as ManCo for WHEB’s Irish ICAV and ACD for WHEB’s Sustainability OEIC, WHEB has appointed…
Intertrust to open in France
Intertrust, the Netherlands-based provider, is to open its first office in France and has appointed Regis Leleu as country head. He joins from Citco.
CSOP selects Eze
Hong Kong’s CSOP Asset Management Ltd. has selected SS&C’s Eze Investment Suite for order management and portfolio accounting.
Malcolm Pobjoy leaves Vistra
Malcolm Pobjoy has left Vistra, where he was group commercial director for the Americas, to join Osborne Clarke, a UK-based law firm, as head of U.S. business development. He will be based in New York.
Martin Currie migrates investment ops to Northern Trust
Martin Currie Investment Management has completed the migration of outsourced investment operations functions to Northern Trust for its book of assets managed from UK offices in Edinburgh and London. These include performance measurement and client reporting activities that were previously managed inhouse. Owned by Franklin Resources, Martin Currie is a long-term global equity growth investor…