Northern Trust has appointed Jessica Donohue has been appointed as head of asset servicing, Americas. In her new role, Donohue will report to Clive Bellows, co-president of Northern Trust’s asset servicing business. Donohue joined Northern Trust in September 2025 as global head of product management for asset servicing. Before joining Northern Trust, she held senior…
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JTC adds to commercial team
JTC has expanded its commercial office with the appointment of David Gilchrist as director. Based in London, he will focus on the expansion of its banking, treasury and investments offering into new markets. He will also help shape new initiatives such as JTC’s custody and insurance propositions.
ZILO hires head of wealth
ZILO, the UK-based fintech specialising in global asset and wealth management software, has appointed Doug Boyce as managing director, wealth. He reports to Phil Goffin, CEO and founder at ZILO.
Ocorian appoints co-CEOs
Ocorian, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed Craig Buick and Yegor Lanovenko as co-chief executive officers, subject to regulatory approval. They replace Chantal Free, who joined in 2023. Buick joined Ocorian in 2024 as CFO and Lanovenko joined in 2021 and was most recently co-head of the fund services business.
Saphyre hires new COO
Saphyre has hired Damian Handzy as COO. Prior to joining Saphyre, he was managing director of analytics at Confluence Technologies, where he led the performance, risk and reporting businesses. He replaces Ray Shivers, who joined in 2022 from BlackRock. He will take on a new role as chief partnership officer, focused on expanding and strengthening…
Gen II upgrades waterfall solutions
Gen II has appointed Beverly Shealy as head of waterfall solutions. She was previously at J.P. Morgan. Gen II has signed a long-term licensing agreement with S7 Fund Ops, a provider of automated waterfall solutions for private capital funds.
Langham Hall appoints head of Lux
Langham Hall, the UK-based administrator, has appointed Elijah Kanevskiy as head of Luxembourg, He joins from Revantage Europe, a Blackstone Group portfolio company, where he was CFO.
U.S. Bank hires from BNY
Sophia Long has joined U.S. Bank as senior product manager in Europe for its global fund services business, based in Dublin. She was previously at BNY.
Pielow returns to Taskize
Taskize, the investment operations collaboration platform owned by Euroclear, has hired Ben Pielow as senior sales executive. Most recently, he was director of strategic accounts at Genesis Global, a software application development business backed by Bank of America, BNY and Citi.
Apex appoints chief strategy officer
Apex has appointed Jay Cipriano as chief strategy officer, a newly created role. He will report to Apex CEO, Peter Hughes. He joins from SEI, where he spent 28 years.