Month: January 2022

Standish Management, a U.S.-based alternatives administrator, has acquired Alpha Alternatives, a small fund administration firm for hedge funds and other investment vehicles. Standish is an independent provider of fund administration services to private equity, venture capital, and real estate managers. Founded in 2007, Standish has >USD250bn AuA, administering over 2,500 entities and reporting to more…

BlockFi, a U.S.-based crypto financial services company, has made two senior appointments. Alexander Grigoryan has joined as the chief technology officer and will oversee all global product development and technology strategy. Prior to BlockFi, Grigoryan led product engineering at Skillz, a mobile games platform, and before that held senior engineering and developer roles at Walmart…

Standard Chartered has agreed to acquire the trustee and domestic asset servicing businesses of RBC Investor & Treasury Services in Hong Kong. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is another step in RBC’s strategy to focus on North America and Europe. In 2020 RBC sold its Hong Kong corporate services business to SMP.

CACEIS has been mandated by Hy24, an investment management firm specialising in green hydrogen infrastructure investment, to provide custody and registrar services for its first fund. In 2021 Ardian, a private equity investor, and FiveT Hydrogen, an investment platform focused on green hydrogen infrastructure projects, formed Hy24. The fund, Clean H2 Infra Fund SLP, will…

Sionic, a UK-based consultancy firm that is part of the Davies Group, has appointed Matt Davey as a partner within its asset management practice. Davey, who has worked at State Street, J.P. Morgan and HSBC, was most recently head of UK coverage, marketing, & solutions at SGSS.

NatWest Trustee and Depositary Services has been appointed as depositary for Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company PLC. Foresight Group LLP is a UK-based infrastructure and private equity investment manager. Foresight Sustainable Forestry Company PLC recently raised GBP130m (USD177m) in an IPO that will invest in UK forestry and afforestation assets.

CSC, the U.S.-based provider of corporate and fund services, has appointed Remko Dieker as managing director of its global financial markets division, overseeing the Netherlands office. He joins from CACEIS. He reports to Jonathan Hanly, managing director, Europe, succeeding Birgitte van den Broek, who is stepping down from her leadership role but will remain as…

Link Group, the Australia-based administrator with GBP160bn AuA (USD217bn), has been appointed as Pantheon Infrastructure’s fund administrator, registrar and company secretary. This follows Pantheon Infrastructure Plc’s GBP400m initial public offering, and its admission to the London Stock Exchange.