Year: 2023

M&G Investments, the UK-based manager with c. GBP300bn (USD381bn) AuM, has appointed Richard Godfrey as chief operating officer for asset management, subject to regulatory approval. Reporting to CEO Joseph Pinto, Godfrey will join M&G’s asset management executive committee and will be responsible for all investment management operational functions. Godfrey was most recently global co-head of…

Philippe Ruault has been appointed CEO of SLIB, the France-based fintech operating in the post-trade space. Ruault has been a board member of SLIB for nearly 12 years. He joins from BNP Paribas, where he spent 22 years, most recently as head of data & digital for the securities services business. SLIB is jointly owned…

TMF Group, the Netherlands-based provider of compliance and administrative services, has appointed Monica Vera and Lisa Wilcox to its ExCo. Monica Vera’s remit has been extended to lead the Latin America region, while Wilcox will continue to oversee North America, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. They report to CEO Mark Weil.

RBC has completed the sale of the European asset servicing activities of RBC Investor Services, and its associated Malaysian centre of excellence, to CACEIS. CACEIS’ acquisition of the business of the UK branch of RBC Investor Services Trust and RBC Investor Services business in Jersey is expected to take place in the coming months, subject…

REYL Intesa Sanpaolo has acquired Carnegie Fund Services SA, a Swiss fund representative. Carnegie services fund management companies, boutique firms and large global asset management groups based in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, acting as a Swiss representative for over 100 managers and over 700 funds. Swiss-based REYL is part of the Intesa Sanpaolo…

Accelex, a UK-based fintech specialising in alternative investment data acquisition, reporting and analytics, has launched coverage of private debt and instrument-level data extraction for institutional investors and asset administrators. Investors in private market funds can now streamline data extraction for investments across multiple levels of the capital structure and across different funding rounds.