Taskize, the Euroclear-owned provider of inter-company workflow to the financial services industry, has hired James Pike as head of business development. Most recently, Pike was EMEA head of client operations and global head of institutional client services at Morgan Stanley.
Category: FinTech
HIGHVERN appoints CTO
HIGHVERN, the C.I.-based private wealth, fund and corporate administration provider, has appointed Tim McBain as group head of technology. He will oversee the implementation and integration of technology across the group’s offices, located in Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey, Switzerland the UK. McBain joins from Saltgate.
CRM selects Linedata
Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC, a US based value equity manager, has implemented the Linedata Longview OMS suite from Linedata, the France-based provider of asset management and credit technology data and services. The platform operates across trading, pre- and post-trade compliance, reporting, and operations.
Fenergo hires Americas strategy chief
Fenergo, the Ireland-based compliance solutions provider, has hired Tracy Moore as director of strategy for the Americas. Moore will oversee the development and execution of business strategy across Fenergo’s operations in North America, including those in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Moore joins Fenergo with over 25 years of experience in investment banking, covering…
Apex appoints Goji for onboarding
Apex has appointed Goji, a UK-regulated fintech offering investors digital access to alternative investments, to enable alternative asset management clients to manage all stages of the investor lifecycle. Apex’s digital onboarding solution, powered by Goji, provides alternative fund managers with the ability to onboard their investors from any jurisdiction via a single, secure online platform,…
Fnality & HQLAx complete DVP repo PoC
Fnality and HQLAᵡ have completed the first PoC DvP repo settlement across the Fnality Payment System (FnPS) and HQLAᵡ’s Digital Collateral Registry, bridging the DLTs of Enterprise Ethereum and R3 Corda. The proof of concept was supported by the project participants – Banco Santander, Goldman Sachs and UBS – and achieved by connecting HQLAᵡ with…
Viridium hires CTO from Citi
Jörg Günther has joined Viridium, a specialist in the management of life insurance portfolios, as chief technology officer. He was previously with Citi, where he was global head of securities services technology, joining in 2019 from Northern Trust, where he was CTO for EMEA and chief information officer for its Corporate & Institutional Services business
Broadridge appoints chief product officer
Broadridge has appointed Martin Koopman as chief product officer, reporting to Tim Gokey, CEO. Koopman joined Broadridge in 2014.
Galaxy to acquire GK8
Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., a financial services and investment management provider in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors, intends to acquire GK8, a secure institutional digital asset self-custody platform. The acquisition will be the result of a sale process executed in connection with Celsius Network LLC‘s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is subject to…
Accelex partners with qashqade
Accelex, a SaaS platform provider specialising in alternative investment data management, has established a partnership with qashqade, a Switzerland-based software solution provider that enables private capital allocators and asset servicers to automate their waterfall and valuations workflows. The partnership will allow clients of both firms to leverage an end-to-end solution, from the automated extraction of…