Month: May 2022

IQ-EQ has appointed Matt Haynes as global head of business intermediaries & partners. Haynes spent eight years as group business development director. In his new role, he will lead a number of strategic relationships and a group-wide strategy to build upon the relationships IQ-EQ has with business partners and intermediaries globally. He will report directly…

CIBC Mellon has been awarded a 10-year mandate to provide asset servicing and digital solutions to Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan (CAAT) and its DBplus offering. CIBC Mellon and its partners, CIBC and BNY Mellon, will provide investment and pension servicing solutions to CAAT, including custody, accounting, securities lending, foreign exchange processing…

Northern Trust has announced two fintech collaborations. First, it has established a relationship with Enfusion, a U.S.-based provider of cloud-native investment management software and services, to provide portfolio management, order and execution management system, and analytics capabilities to mutual clients. Through this collaboration, Enfusion and Northern Trust will offer asset manager, hedge fund and internally…

J.P. Morgan’s securities services business has launched Fusion, a data platform that delivers end-to-end data management and reporting solutions for institutional investors. Fusion will allow clients to integrate and combine data from multiple sources into a single data model that delivers the benefits of scale and reduced costs, along with the ability to more easily…

MUFG Investor Services has appointed Yannis Matsis as managing director and head of the Cyprus office, the firm’s new operational centre located in Limassol, Cyprus. Matsis will be responsible for oversight of the firm’s local asset servicing footprint, growth within the local Cypriot market, and business expansion activities in Europe and the Middle East. Matsis…

Aztec, the C.I.-based administrator, has supported longstanding client, Advent International, with the fundraising activities and final close of its second dedicated technology fund, Advent Global Technology II. The fund exceeded its USD3bn target by 33pct. Advent Tech II is double the size of its predecessor, Advent Tech. Aztec assisted with investor onboarding and will continue…

Tim Callaghan has been appointed as an independent non-executive director to the board of the Equity Trustees independent authorised corporate director business in the UK. Equity Trustees Fund Services provides independent fund governance, risk and compliance, product development and regulatory reporting services to investment managers, from locations in Melbourne, Sydney, London and Dublin. Callaghan was…

State Street has made senior management changes. Lou Maiuri, currently COO, has been appointed as president and head of Investment Services and Eric Aboaf, CFO, to vice chairman. Maiuri and Aboaf will both continue to report to Ron O’Hanley, chairman and chief executive officer. Maiuri now has end-to-end responsibility for all facets of State Street’s…

Apex Group has extended its longstanding relationship with Aizawa Asset Management (AAM) to provide services to its new Cayman fund, Ariake Secondary Fund III LP. Apex will provide fund administration and regulatory services to ASF-III, having serviced AAM’s Ariake Secondary Fund I LP and Ariake Secondary Fund II LP since 2015. AAM, a Japanese alternative…