BNY Mellon has appointed Brenda Bol as branch manager in Luxembourg and head of the investment managers segment in EMEA for the asset servicing & digital business. She joins from Brown Brothers Harriman in Luxembourg. The position at BNY Mellon has been open since David Claus left to join EDB earlier this year.
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Northern Trust bolsters digital solutions team
Northern Trust has named Benjamin Bobroff as the new global head of the Digital Solutions Consulting team within its asset servicing business development division. Based in London, Bobroff joined Northern Trust in 2019 from BlackRock as senior consultant for EMEA. In his new role he reports to Jon Dunham, global head of asset serving sales.…
State Street hires new global head of network management
State Street has hired Dan Hickey as global head of network management, based in the UK. Hickey joins from RBC Investor & Treasury Services, where he held a similar role. Following the successful implementation of its market-leading Network 2.0 strategy, RBC is currently building out interfaces with its three core sub-custody providers: Citi, Clearstream and…
U.S. Bank simplifies alts data reporting
U.S. Bank has launched a suite of lifecycle data metrics, with faster reporting of private equity, hedge fund and other alternative fund data. This capability, designed for custody clients, is made possible by new automated data extraction technology. This new process of pulling essential data from private markets is made possible in part by U.S.…
StonePine selects CIBC Mellon
StonePine Asset Management, a Montreal-based manager with CAD60bn (USD46bn) AuM, has appointed CIBC Mellon to provide asset servicing solutions including fund accounting and administration, global custody, unitholder recordkeeping, and investment information data access and reporting via the NEXEN investment data platform. Earlier this year StonePine signed an agreement with SimCorp, a provider of SaaS investment…
J.P. Morgan hires Ileana Sodani
Ileana Sodani has joined J.P. Morgan’s asset servicing business as head of global sales execution. Based in the UK, she is responsible for instilling a sales culture and approach across the client-facing securities servicing organisation by managing sales execution, strategy and approach. Sodani spent 30 years at BNY Mellon, most recently as global head of…
Aztec hires State Street exec in Ireland
Aztec, the C.I.-based administrator, has hired Kevin Hogan as head of fund services Ireland. He was previously at State Street, where he spent seven years.
HSBC gains ADGM licence
HSBC has expanded its markets and securities services business into the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), obtaining an arranging custody licence for sovereign, institutional and investment manager clients. The expansion connects clients to a custodian network across 96 markets and provides a digital platform for securities services activities.
Remaco appoints AssetMetrix
Remaco, a Switzerland-based asset manager, has appointed AssetMetrix as partner for digitisation of its private debt operations. Remaco specialises in the private debt asset class. Founded in 2013 in Munich, AssetMetrix is a spin-off of a PE fund-of-funds manager. Its outsourcing services around data collection, fund administration, reporting and analysis aim to enhance the efficiency…
FundGuard hires pre-sales director
Amir Dehestani has joined FundGuard as pre-sales director. He was previously at BNY Mellon. FundGuard is a U.S.-based fintech offering an investment management and administration platform.