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ONE Group Solutions, the Luxembourg-based fund solutions provider, has established a presence in the U.S Rafael Perez has been appointed as business development lead – Americas, based in New York. In addition, Melanie Hopper, ONE’s group general counsel, has relocated to the U.S.

DTCC, the U.S. market infrastructure provider, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securrency Inc., a developer of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure. The acquisition is expected to close shortly. Both U.S. Bank and State Street are investors in Securrency. Securrency will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of DTCC and will operate under the name DTCC Digital…

Oak Group, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed Kim Sgarlata as group CEO. She previously held the positions of global head of strategic programme development and global head of wholesale transformation at HSBC. She has also worked at Capco, Accenture, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and State Street.

TMF Group, the Netherlands-based provider of compliance and administrative services, has appointed Joel Cardenas as head of business development for Latin America, and Ard Crebas as head of business development for North America and the Caribbean. They will both report to TMF’s chief commercial officer, Jan Willem van Drimmelen. Both are internal appointments.

Komainu, the C.I.-based digital assets custodian, and Copper, the UK-based provider of institutional digital asset solutions, have formed a partnership that will offer Komainu’s institutional clients the ability to trade via Copper’s ClearLoop. Through this alliance, Komainu’s clients will benefit from both regulated, on-chain custody provided by Komainu, and access to off-exchange settlement and rapid…

Accordant Investments LLC, a registered investment advisor, has appointed SS&C Technologies to support the operations of its first registered interval fund, the Accordant ODCE Index Fund. Accordant will deploy SS&C’s services supporting interval funds, including registered fund services, administration, transfer agency, tax and treasury services.

Komainu, the C.I.-based digital assets custodian, has appointed Robert Johnson as chief technology officer, based in London. He joins from Coremont, where he was CTO and partner. Komainu, which is backed in part by Nomura, recently received approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority to register as a custodian wallet provider.

Acadian Asset Management, the Boston-based manager with AuM of USD100bn, has been onboarded to BNY Mellon’s middle office platform. BNY Mellon now supports Acadian’s middle office activities, including trade support, IBOR and data delivery. Jim Crumlish, chief information officer at Acadian Asset Management, said: “This is an exciting milestone for Acadian. Strategically, this transition enables…

IQ-EQ has appointed David Giannone as senior managing director in the business development team in the U.S. He will specialise in private capital, offshore structures and business development. Giannone spent nearly 10 years at RBC Investor Services, most recently as global head of business development. It is understood that RBC IS is winding down its…