BlackRock has launched eFront Provider, designed to enable asset servicers to offer asset managers a modern fund servicing experience, complete with real-time views into their private markets investor, fund and investment data. eFront Provider complements BlackRock’s widely used fund administration, investor servicing and data management capabilities for private markets asset servicers. Apex has been onboarded…
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Wedlich moves to Amicorp
Alexander Wedlich has joined Amicorp Fund Services as MD and conducting officer, based in Luxembourg. He joins from Apex.
Russell-Jones forms sales consultancy
Marc Russell-Jones has established a consulting business, AIMES Advisory, “dedicated to optimising sales strategies for securities services and fintech businesses seeking targeted growth”. He was previously at Broadridge, and has worked for many of the largest custodian banks.
CACEIS works with Spiko on MMF tokenisation
CACEIS has enabled clients to subscribe to the first French UCITS money-market funds with units natively issued and delivered on Ethereum’s public blockchain. This marks the launch of CACEIS’ new custody architecture for tokenised financial instruments and crypto assets. Spiko, a pioneering French fintech known for its blockchain-based fund unit tokenisation solution, and Twenty First…
HornbyChapman extends scope
HornbyChapman, the UK-based executive search firm dedicated to the post-trade industry, is partnering with The Henka Institute, a coaching, learning and development, and transformation firm, to extend its service offering to its financial services client base.
Anduiza joins Vistra
Frank Anduiza has joined Vistra as MD for the U.S. funds business. Vistra has also added four enterprise account managers for the U.S. – Christopher Murphy, Sean Ward, Matt Podolsky and Tony Olivo. The move follows Vistra’s recent acquisition of Phoenix American. Based in New York, Anduiza joins from Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions. He…
Apex to buy Nikko ManCo in Lux
Nikko Asset Management Co. Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, Nikko AM Group, one of Asia’s largest asset managers, has reached an agreement to transfer its ManCo in Luxembourg to FundRock Management Company S.A., a subsidiary of Apex Group. The transfer agreement includes the sale of Nikko Asset Management Luxembourg S.A. to Apex. Following this, FundRock…
BNPP launches ESG service in ANZ
BNP Paribas has launched its ESG investment compliance monitoring service in Australia and New Zealand. The service provides ESG investment compliance screening capabilities for local asset managers and owners, allowing them to incorporate customisable and flexible ESG criteria into their portfolio monitoring. The service, which has already been deployed in Europe, includes a wide range…
Temenos hires from LSEG
Temenos has appointed Barb Morgan as chief product and technology officer. Reporting to Temenos CEO Jean-Pierre Brulard, she will join the company’s ExCo and lead the technology and product organisation. Barb joins Temenos from the London Stock Exchange Group, where she served as group head of product for data and analytics, leading the Microsoft-LSEG partnership.…
Glaysher retires from NT
Toby Glaysher has retired from Northern Trust after a 37-year career with the bank. He was most recently president of Global Fund Services. During his years of service at Northern Trust, he specialised in asset servicing, holding managerial and technical roles in both the back and front offices and in a number of locations, including…