Northern Trust has launched an enhanced liquidity management data tool on its Front Office Solutions platform. The web-based tool gives asset owners with significant allocations to private market assets better control over their liquidity through unified and customised reporting. The web-based liquidity management module offers users a comprehensive view of their portfolio’s liquidity based on…
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Ultimus hires three senior RMs
Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions, the private fund administrator owned by Ultimus, has added three SVPs to its relationship management team. Lori Shupak was previously a senior vice president at SS&C Technologies, Inc., formerly known as Citi Private Equity Services. Christina Haas was practice growth leader at FD Fund Administration, which was recently acquired by…
Teslin Capital Management appoints BP2S
BNP Paribas Securities Services has been mandated by Teslin Capital Management to provide investment and fund administration, depotbank and global custody services for its EUR1.2bn (USD1.2bn) of global assets. Teslin Capital Management is a long-term investor focused on small and midcaps in The Netherlands and other European capital markets. Koos van der Helm, manager finance,…
CACEIS hires new pensions supremo
CACEIS has appointed Wouter Peters as global head, center of excellence for pensions (CEP). He will join the ExCo of CACEIS Netherlands. Peters will be responsible for CACEIS’ pension proposition worldwide. He joins from Aegon Asset Management where he was COO for the last nine years.
BNP Paribas tokenises EDF bond
BNP Paribas has structured, tokenised and distributed a bond, the proceeds of which aim at refinancing a solar energy project sponsored by EDF through its subsidiary, EDF ENR. This native digital asset, issued on the public blockchain, represents the first renewable energy bond tokenisation in the project financing market. For this transaction, the BNP Paribas…
Coremont hires COO from State Street
Akbar Sheriff has joined Coremont, the UK-based fintech, as COO. Coremont, which was spun off from Brevan Howard in 2018, provides portfolio management technology and support across all investment management and trading functions. Its flagship software, Clarion, provides risk analytics and data across all asset classes, including rates, fixed income, credit, FX, equities, commodities and,…
HSBC wins GBP50bn Aviva RE mandate
HSBC and Mount Street Group have entered into a 10-year strategic agreement with Aviva Investors for asset servicing arrangements for its real assets business, covering GBP50bn (USD60bn) AuM. The mandate will see HSBC and Mount Street assume all fund administration and debt servicing functions on behalf of Aviva Investors’ real assets strategies. The mandate follows…
BP2S appoints new head of NZ
BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Iain Martin as head of New Zealand with effect from 1 October 2022. He is based in Wellington and reports to David Banks, the acting head of securities services Australia and New Zealand. Martin, who joined the bank in 2003, was most recently head of relationship management and sales…
Aon appoints BNY Mellon executive as Netherlands CEO
Aon plc, a global professional services company, has appointed Leonique van Houwelingen as chief executive officer for the Netherlands, effective November 1, 2022, subject to regulatory approval. In 2021 van van Houwelingen was replaced as CEO of BNY Mellon’s European bank and took on a new role as EMEA head of strategic growth and regional…
Paul Heffernan joins Waystone
Paul Heffernan has joined Waystone as CEO of its ETF business. He previously spent six years at HSBC in senior European sales roles for the securities services business. He is based in Ireland.