Euroclear has taken a stake in Marketnode, the Singapore-based digital market infrastructure operator. Founded by SGX Group and Temasek in 2021, Marketnode serves as Asia-Pacific’s DLT-powered financial market infrastructure. HSBC invested in Marketnode in May 2024. By joining forces with Marketnode and its existing shareholders, Euroclear aims to participate in the setup of a key…
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Copper appoints new CEO
Copper.co, the UK-based provider of digital asset custody, collateral management and prime services, has appointed Amar Kuchinad as its new global CEO. Kuchinad takes over from Copper’s founder, Dmitry Tokarev, who has stepped back from his role as CEO after seven years. Tokarev will remain closely involved in Copper’s future, both as the board’s founder…
Aztec hires for U.S.
Aztec Group, the C.I.-based administrator, has hired two seniors for its U.S. business. Sadrack Belony joins as head of U.S. investor services, and Megan MacAniff joins as head of U.S. client solutions. Belony will lead and grow the investor services team and functionality, including investor services, corporate services, and treasury and banking. He has previously…
JTC supports Norlantic fund launch
Norlantic Capital, a U.S.-based private markets firm, has established Norlantic ICAV, an umbrella ICAV authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland as a QIAIF with segregated liability between sub-funds. Norlantic ICAV is an AIF. Norlantic ICAV is managed by JTC Global AIFM Solutions (Ireland) Limited.
BR launches eFront Provider
BlackRock has launched eFront Provider, designed to enable asset servicers to offer asset managers a modern fund servicing experience, complete with real-time views into their private markets investor, fund and investment data. eFront Provider complements BlackRock’s widely used fund administration, investor servicing and data management capabilities for private markets asset servicers. Apex has been onboarded…
Russell-Jones forms sales consultancy
Marc Russell-Jones has established a consulting business, AIMES Advisory, “dedicated to optimising sales strategies for securities services and fintech businesses seeking targeted growth”. He was previously at Broadridge, and has worked for many of the largest custodian banks.
CACEIS works with Spiko on MMF tokenisation
CACEIS has enabled clients to subscribe to the first French UCITS money-market funds with units natively issued and delivered on Ethereum’s public blockchain. This marks the launch of CACEIS’ new custody architecture for tokenised financial instruments and crypto assets. Spiko, a pioneering French fintech known for its blockchain-based fund unit tokenisation solution, and Twenty First…
Anduiza joins Vistra
Frank Anduiza has joined Vistra as MD for the U.S. funds business. Vistra has also added four enterprise account managers for the U.S. – Christopher Murphy, Sean Ward, Matt Podolsky and Tony Olivo. The move follows Vistra’s recent acquisition of Phoenix American. Based in New York, Anduiza joins from Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions. He…
SS&C launches AI platform
SS&C has launched SS&C Accord, an AI-enabled service to help wealth managers aggregate and validate their clients’ alternative investment data. SS&C Accord leverages SS&C’s wealth management and alternative investment fund administration expertise to help advisors aggregate and process siloed data across their investors’ portfolios. Wealth managers, RIAs, pension funds, endowments and family offices can view…
Apex wins in Japan
Apex has expanded its relationship with Integral Corporation, one of the largest Japan-based private equity managers. It will now provide fund administration services to Integral Fund V Series. Apex will now offer Cayman fund administration, Cayman regulatory reporting, tax reporting, board meetings for Fund II, III, IV and a number of investment vehicles.