Category: FinTech

Next Gate Tech, the Luxembourg-based fintech, has appointed Séverine Raymond-Soulier as chief revenue officer. Based in London, she will lead client-facing operations encompassing business development, deployment and customer experience. Her previous roles include head of EMEA and U.S sales at Symphony and head of investing & advisory EMEA at Thomson Reuters.

CAIS, the U.S.-based provider of an alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, has appointed Kan Kotecha as chief technology officer. He will lead a team of engineers across the entire CAIS platform with a focus on defining and building a unified operating system that will provide scale and simplification to the entire alternative investment…

Challenger Limited, the publicly listed Australian investment management firm, has appointed State Street to provide custody and, through State Street Alpha, back-, middle- and front office investment administration services, for a suite of listed and unlisted investment vehicles with AUD127bn (USD85bn) AuM. Challenger will be one of the largest investment managers in the region to…

A major coup for ZILO, the UK-based fintech focused on TA and the client experience, which has appointed Jon Willis as COO. With 30 years of extensive industry experience across finance and technology sectors, he will report to CEO, Phil Goffin. He joins from HSBC Securities Services, where he was most recently global head of…

FNZ, the end-to-end global wealth management platform, has appointed a new senior management team following the decision of Adrian Durham, FNZ’s founder, to transition from his role as group CEO to a non-executive role as founding director and senior advisor. He will continue to sit on the group board and will remain a significant shareholder…

State Street has signed an agreement with Taurus SA, the Switzerland-based provider of digital asset infrastructure, to deliver digital assets capabilities for State Street’s clients. Subject to receipt of applicable regulatory approvals, State Street will leverage Taurus’ custody, tokenisation and node management solutions to automate the issuance and servicing of digital assets, including digital securities…

Komainu, the C.I.-based digital asset services provider, is to provide custody for BlackRock’s BUIDL Token. The BUIDL Token – BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund – is a tokenised fund created by BlackRock. Operating on the Ethereum blockchain, BUIDL offers institutional investors exposure to U.S. dollar yields through tokenisation. By tokenising a U.S. dollar fund,…