Northern Trust has appointed Katie Pries as country executive for Northern Trust’s asset servicing business in Canada, based in Toronto. Pries previously served as president and CEO of Northern Trust Canada from 2020 to 2025. She succeeds Jeff Alexander, who has left Northern Trust to pursue other opportunities.
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Gen II hires private credit team
Gen II Fund Services, an independent private capital fund administrator with >USD1trn AuA, has hired Leslie DeRoss and her specialist team to lead and expand the firm’s private credit offering. DeRoss joins Gen II from U.S. Bank.
OCBC deploys Citi’s sec lending platform
OCBC Group, the Singapore-based bank, has deployed the Citi Securities Lending Access platform, to roll out a securities lending programme. The programme is available to retail and corporate customers of OCBC Securities, as well as clients of its private banking arm, Bank of Singapore,
BNPP hires HF head
Peter Herrlin has joined the securities services business of BNP Paribas as global head of hedge fund services. Based in London, he reports to Patrick Hayes, global head of alternatives investors, securities services, and locally to Julien Kasparian, regional head for the UK and Middle East, securities services. He joins from Northern Trust.
BNY loses senior AO manager
BNY has lost a senior manager from its already underpowered asset owners team. Anders Reinertsen, who was head of the asset owners sector for the Americas, has joined Clearwater Analytics as market principal for asset owners, based in New York.
Apex hires Canada country head
Apex has appointed Alex Dameski as country head for Canada. He joins from Northern Trust Canada, where he served as chief strategy officer and chief client officer.
CRD expands PA support
Charles River Development, a State Street company, plans to expand its support of private market assets within the unified managed accounts capabilities. The offer aims to provide a streamlined and integrated solution with advanced portfolio management capabilities across public and private assets within a single portfolio. The expanded solution is intended to address the administrative…
State Street to link with QNB
State Street and QNB Group plan to form a strategic alliance to introduce a new custody servicing model in Qatar. Under this co-operation agreement, State Street and QNB Group have agreed to collaborate, with service agreements to be finalized and executed at a later date. QNB has USD65bn AuC.
State Street launches digital assets platform
State Street has belatedly launched a digital assets platform, which includes wallet management, custody and cash capabilities, designed to support tokenised product development across jurisdictions covering both private and public permissioned blockchain networks. State Street’s digital asset strategy has stuttered ever since Nadine Chakar, global head of digital assets, left in 2022 after barely a…
McNinch makes partner at BBH
BBH has appointed Shawn McNinch as a general partner. Based in Boston, he is global head of investor services business development and head of ETF product servicing. He joined BBH in 2009.