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Patrycja Dos Santos has joined AssetMetrix as middle office solutions specialist, based in Paris. She has held senior positions at Access Capital Partners, Quilvest Capital Partners, BNP Paribas Asset Management and, most recently, Sienna Private Credit. Based in Germany, AssetMetrix provides front-, middle- and back-office outsourcing solutions for private capital investors. BNP Paribas took a…

Northleaf Capital Partners, a Canadian private markets investment firm with USD22bn in capital commitments, has selected Equity Trustees to be the trustee and custodian of its senior private credit fund, NSPC AUD Investor Trust. NSPC Australia is an Australian-domiciled unit trust which is available to Australian wholesale investors; the fund invests directly in Northleaf Senior…

The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, BNY Mellon‘s European Bank, has established a new branch in Poland. From April 2023, the branch in Wroclaw will support the work of the European Bank and other BNY Mellon legal entities delivering administrative and operational support services. BNY Mellon has had a presence in Wroclaw since 2010.…

Apex plans to acquire Efficient Group (Pty) Ltd. Based in South Africa, Efficient is the holding company of Boutique Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd and Boutique Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd. Founded in 2013, BCI provides a range of ManCo services with a core business focus on third-party branded portfolios. BIP is an independent investment management…

Clearwater Analytics, a U.S.-based provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has hired Josef Sommeregger as region head for DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and the Middle East. He joins from SimCorp, where he was managing director for the data and communications business line.

Citco has enhanced its Citco Waterfall tool to enable clients to customise and calculate forward-looking investor distributions and carried interest scenarios on their desktop. The Scenario Modeling enhancement, which is also available as an add-on service within the Citco Waterfall tool, allows clients to generate carried interest projections through a step-by-step wizard, enabling them to…

Pirum, the UK-based fintech, has extended its connectivity with BNY Mellon through its collateral management platform, CollateralConnect, to allow mutual clients to self-direct triparty collateral allocations using its optimisation algorithm. By leveraging Pirum’s existing market-wide connectivity, the platform now offers a full front-to-back solution to support enterprise-wide optimization across fixed income, securities finance and derivatives.…

Aztec, the C.I.-based alternatives administrator, has established a presence in Ireland with a hub in Kilkenny. This follows the appointment in 2022 of Kevin Hogan as head of Ireland fund services. Hogan joined from State Street. A recruitment drive is now underway to build a team of approximately 30. The roles will cover private equity,…