Sanne, the UK-listed administrator, has appointed Adam Duncan as head of operations in South Africa. Before joining Sanne, he spent three years as the director for data operations of Burgiss’ South African office, where he was responsible for the overall performance and progression of the team in South Africa. He also spent 13 years at…
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Nigel Colgan rejoins BNY Mellon
Nigel Colgan has returned to the UK after a two-year spell with First Abu Dhabi Bank in Abu Dhabi. Colgan rejoins BNY Mellon, where he has spent the majority of his career, as group manager, programme & project management. The role has responsibility for the governance, oversight, execution and implementation of critical or strategic regulatory…
Michelle Butler joins J.P. Morgan
After several months of gardening leave, Michelle Butler has joined J.P. Morgan as head of sales, UK & Ireland, for its securities services business. Butler spent 13 years at HSBC, most recently as Europe head of business development & client management for its securities services business.
Northern Trust resets U.S. business lines
Following last year’s departure of Dan Houlihan, heat of asset servicing for the Americas, Northern Trust has taken the opportunity to reorganise its U.S. business lines across asset servicing. Toby Glaysher, currently head of Global Fund Services (GFS) International, will expand his responsibilities to become president of GFS, adding the U.S. to his EMEA and…
DB hires Mat Kat to head APAC product
Deutsche Bank has appointed Mathew Kathayanat (widely known as Mat Kat) as APAC head of securities services product management. He will be based in Singapore. He was most recently head of product & strategy, APAC at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, and has previously held a variety of roles with Citi in EMEA and APAC.
Next Gate Tech hires industry heavyweight as CRO
Next Gate Tech, the Luxembourg-based fintech specialising in data management and data analytics for the asset management and asset servicing industries, has hired Eduardo Gramuglia Pallavicino as chief revenue officer. Gramuglia was previously head of State Street’s business in Luxembourg, and has also worked at BBH.
HSBC supports first QFI deal across BSE
HSBC has become the first international custodian to facilitate a QFI trade across the Beijing Stock Exchange placed by an offshore investor. The trade was placed by Samsung Securities Co. for its underlying product, Samsung RQFII Trust. Samsung Securities is a Korean broker/dealer which is active in China. BSE, which went live in November 2021,…
Emma Crabtree joins IQ-EQ
IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based investor services provider, has scored a major coup with the hiring of Emma Crabtree as group chief commercial officer. Crabtree joins from BNP Paribas Securities Services, where she was global head of sales for the asset manager and alternatives segments. Before joining BP2S in 2016, Crabtree spent nearly 20 years at RBC.…
Sal Nayeer joins BNY Mellon
Salmaan (Sal) Nayeer has joined BNY Mellon in Hong Kong to head the front to back middle office product in APAC. He was previously at HSBC, where he was the APAC middle office product manager.
Karsten Illy promoted by Northern Trust
Karsten Illy has been promoted to country head, Switzerland for Northern Trust. He takes over this responsibility from Wim van Ooijen and hands over his COO responsibility for Switzerland to André Debrunner, the current head of fund reporting. Wim van Ooijen maintains responsibility for Switzerland as part of his wider GFS executive role and continues…