Category: People

Northern Trust has appointed Duncan Cooper as chief data officer, asset servicing, a new role, reporting to Kelley Conway, global head of corporate and digital strategy. He will be responsible for leading the data strategy for the asset servicing business, covering both data delivery and data management. He joins from BNY Mellon, where he was…

Hazeltree, the U.S.-based provider of treasury and liquidity management solutions for the alternative asset management industry, has appointed Jeremy Payne as chief product officer, a newly created role. He will oversee all of the company’s products, including public markets, private markets, data insights, liquidity platform, and cash/payments. He was most recently chief product officer at…

Patricia Hostin has been appointed as global head of agency securities lending at State Street. Hostin will report to Gino Timperio, global head of financing solutions. Hostin joins from BlackRock, where she was most recently managing director for its financial resource management, where she executed the firm’s global strategy for optimising capital and balance sheet…

The ASCENT Group, a Singapore-based fund administrator with USD20bn AuM, is expanding into the UK market. Jamie Spark will be managing director of Ascent Fund Services (UK) Ltd. Having previously led business development in Australia.