KB Associates, an Ireland-based professional services firm offering ManCo, governance, regulatory and related consulting services, has reached an agreement to join the Waystone Group, subject to regulatory approval. KBA employs almost 100 consultants, advises over 250 international asset managers and supports investment funds with assets exceeding USD400bn. Mike Kirby, KBA founder and managing principal, will…
Year: 2022
Richard Street leaves RBC
Richard Street, global head of client coverage, has left RBC Investor & Treasury Services. Street, who joined RBC in 2016 from Citi, assumed the global role after Francis Jackson was promoted to run the investor services business in 2019.
Broadridge partners with Santander for Spanish voting solution
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., a U.S.-based fintech provider, has launched a new golden copy event notification and vote execution service for the Spanish market. The service, delivered in collaboration with Santander Investment S.A., provides a fully automated solution with market-wide coverage. The service aims to improve market error rates, expand voting windows and facilitate vote…
Bosonic hires Jason Nabi as CRO
Bosonic, a U.S.-based decentralised financial market infrastructure (dFMI) business with a real-time clearing and settlement service for crypto and digital assets, has hired Jason Nabi as chief revenue officer, a newly created position. Nabi reports into Bosonic CEO Rosario Ingargiola. Nabi has worked at Euroclear, HSBC, BNP Paribas and SGSS, and was most recently an…
Crestbridge appoints new UK chief
Martin Lambert has joined Crestbridge, the C.I.-based administrator, as head of UK operations. He will take over Paul Windsor’s responsibilities overseeing the UK offices, following Windsor’s retirement. Prior to joining Crestbridge, Lambert was a partner at Grant Thornton.
UnionBank to implement METACO Harmonize
METACO, a provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, has announced that Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) is implementing its digital asset management services. UnionBank will leverage Harmonize, METACO’s digital asset orchestration system, to manage its digital asset operations. Harmonize enables institutions to manage a range of end-to-end digital asset…
Gemini acquires Omniex
Gemini, the crypto firm founded by the Winklevoss brothers, has acquired Omniex, a trading technology platform that provides order, execution, and portfolio management system solutions for institutional crypto trading. Omniex was founded by CEO Hu Liang and chief strategy officer John Burnett, both of whom worked at State Street. As part of this acquisition, the…
Anchorage Digital hires CRO
Anchorage Digital Bank, America’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, has appointed Rachel Anderika as its first chief risk officer. Aderika, who worked at the OCC as a bank examiner, was most recently at Promontory Financial Group, a bank regulatory consulting firm owned by IBM. She helped found Promontory’s digital assets risk and compliance team,…
NPS expands relationship with BNY Mellon
National Pension Service of Korea (NPS), thought to be the world’s third largest pension fund, has expanded its agreement with BNY Mellon to include middle office, accounting and risk solutions, delivered through BNY Mellon’s OMNI platform. NPS appointed BNY Mellon in 2018 as its global custodian for its fixed income portfolios, which were recently onboarded.…
SGSS partners with Lumi for e-voting
SGSS and Lumi Technologies, a provider of electronic voting services, have signed a partnership to ensure the long-term success of the existing SGSS tablet voting service and offer new remote voting services for general meetings. At the request of SGSS, Lumi Technologies recently acquired the intellectual property and the stock of touchscreen voting tablets developed…