Citi has hired Eduardo Gramuglia Pallavicino as head of Luxembourg & the Netherlands. Gramuglia, who has been working as a strategic advisor and non-executive director, was previously head of Luxembourg for State Street and has also worked at BBH. He replaces Larissa Sototskaya, who has moved to a new role as global head of TA…
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U.S. Bank hires GFS president
U.S. Bank has appointed Jay Martin as president, global fund services. Martin will join the senior leadership team of U.S. Bank’s Wealth Management and Investment Services (WMIS) division. He will be based in Milwaukee. The position has been vacant since Joe Neuberger left in late 2022. Christine Waldron, chief product officer for WMIS, has been…
Nordnet deploys Citi’s retail lending platform
Nordnet AB, the pan-Nordic digital platform for savings and investments, is the first Swedish client to start lending through Citi’s Securities Lending Access platform. The solution will enable Nordnet to expand its securities lending programme to new markets and new client segments. Citi Securities Lending Access is an end-to-end solution that digitises and automates the…
HSBC appoints global head of securities services
HSBC has appointed Fiona Horsewill as global head of securities services. Based in London, she will report directly to Patrick George, the recently confirmed global head of markets & securities services. She will also be a member of the M&SS executive committee. Horsewill was most recently at Citi, where she was global head of data…
Singlife to deploy front-to-back solution
Singlife, the Singapore-based financial services provider, has appointed Citi and BlackRock Aladdin to provide a technology platform to unify its asset management capabilities across its front, middle and back-office. The selection process began with a tender for 11 different front-office and back-office partners, with a total of 28 different combinations assessed. The final selection was…
Citi hires head of SS technology
Ken Sansom has joined Citi as the head of securities services technology. He joins from Amazon Web Services. His hiring is the latest in a string of senior management acquisitions by Citi’s securities services business. These include Mary Gaspar-Hillenbrand, global head of digital first transformation; Joe Bonanno, global head of data, digital, and innovation; and…
Waystone appoints new CRO
Waystone, the Ireland-based service provider to the investment management industry, has appointed Des Johnson as global chief revenue officer. Johnson, who is based in the U.S., was previously CEO for The Americas at Centaur, which Waystone recently acquired. Johnson joined Centaur in 2017 after a long career at Citi and a brief spell at SS&C.
Viridium hires CTO from Citi
Jörg Günther has joined Viridium, a specialist in the management of life insurance portfolios, as chief technology officer. He was previously with Citi, where he was global head of securities services technology, joining in 2019 from Northern Trust, where he was CTO for EMEA and chief information officer for its Corporate & Institutional Services business
SDX appoints head of digital securities
SIX Digital Exchange has appointed Alexandre Kech as head of digital securities, based in Switzerland. He was most recently with Citi Ventures, where he launched and ran its blockchain & digital asset team.
Citi to service Sanlam Private Wealth
Citi has been appointed by Sanlam Private Wealth, a South Africa-based wealth manager, for a range of services, including execution, cash and custody for Sanlam Private Wealth’s non-domestic client securities. The appointment forms part of a transformation of Sanlam Private Wealth’s business model, which includes a new investment platform and the outsourcing of trading and…