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Great Lakes Fund Solutions, Inc., a U.S.-based administrator and transfer agent for retail alternative investment fund sponsors, has been appointed by Houston-based Donovan Ventures to provide an outsourced investor services back office to each fund program. Donovan provides up to USD20m in growth capital to lower middle-market energy companies through dedicated private equity investment funds.

JTC, the C.I.-based professional services provider, has hired John Collins as senior director – funds, following the launch of its fund administration service in Ireland. He will operate from JTC’s offices in Dublin and London to lead the growth of the Irish fund administration service which was launched at the beginning of August. Collins was…

State Street has appointed Min Kim as Korea country head. Min has been with State Street for over 20 years and was instrumental in developing the bank’s franchise in Korea. Prior to taking on this role, he was head of Korea Institutional Services. Reporting to Mostapha Tahiri, CEO, Asia Pacific at State Street, Min is…

Titanbay, the Luxembourg-based private markets investment platform, has appointed Apex to provide an ESG rating on all new funds added to the Titanbay platform. Under the agreement, a consolidated ESG report will be made available to investors alongside other fund due diligence materials to provide investors with assurances that selected funds meet the highest sustainability…

Tanarra Credit Partners, a private credit investment firm based in Australia, has selected Equity Trustees to be the responsible entity of its new fund, the TCP Private Debt Income Fund. TCP has >AUD750m (USD517m) AuM and is a part of Tanarra Group, a specialist alternative investment group with AUD3bn (USD2.1bn) AuM.

Davy Capital Markets, a member of the Bank of Ireland Group, has agreed to deploy the post-trade platform from Torstone Technology, a UK-based SaaS platform provider for post-trade securities and derivatives processing. The Davy Group has over 800 people managing >EUR16bn (USD16bn) of client assets, with offices in Dublin, London and throughout the island of…

BNY Mellon has appointed Brenda Bol as branch manager in Luxembourg and head of the investment managers segment in EMEA for the asset servicing & digital business. She joins from Brown Brothers Harriman in Luxembourg. The position at BNY Mellon has been open since David Claus left to join EDB earlier this year.

Hazeltree, the U.S.-based provider of treasury and liquidity management technology for the alternative asset and investment management industries, has secured a USD14m strategic investment. The investment round was led by FINTOP Capital, a venture capital firm focused on fintech B2B SaaS companies, and joined by Hamilton Lane, a leading private markets investment management firm. Rick…

Northern Trust has named Benjamin Bobroff as the new global head of the Digital Solutions Consulting team within its asset servicing business development division. Based in London, Bobroff joined Northern Trust in 2019 from BlackRock as senior consultant for EMEA. In his new role he reports to Jon Dunham, global head of asset serving sales.…