Year: 2023

State Street has appointed Mostapha Tahiri, Asia Pacific CEO, to take on additional responsibilities to lead its Middle East business. In his expanded capacity, Tahiri will be responsible for all business activities for the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. Based in Singapore, Tahiri will continue to report to Andrew Erickson, chief productivity officer and…

STP Investment Services, a U.S.-based investment services provider with >USD400bn AuA, has hired David Whitaker as head of strategy & corporate development. Prior to STP Investment Services, Whitaker served for 16 years as president of Foreside Financial Group and, following its 2022 merger with ACA Group, the global services leader. He led the sale of…

Broadridge, the U.S.-based fintech, has launched a trading solution that enables clients to achieve increased STP and efficiency, better trading decisions and client insights, improved controls, and reduced risk. The new solution aims to enable clients of Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions to achieve greater agility and faster time to market, improved scalability, and reduced…

Eskom Pension and Provident Fund (EPPF) has appointed Apex to provide portfolio management platform and investment fund administration services for a period of five years. EPPF is South Africa’s second-largest retirement fund with over ZAR169bn (USD9.3bn) AuM. Apex will provide front- and middle-office services including portfolio construction and rebalancing; portfolio management; digitised order management; pre-…

IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based administrator, has appointed Matt Okolita as regional CEO, Americas. He was previously global head of outsourced business services. As part of this planned leadership transition he will take over the role from Mark Fordyce, who will remain as non-executive chairman of IQ-EQ Americas. Okolita will report to Mark Pesco, group CEO of…

Universal Investment Group has appointed Etienne Rougier as COO. He will be responsible for technology, operations and change management. Rougier’s appointment will see the C-suite expand, which currently consists of CEO Michael Reinhard, chief customer officer Katja Müller and chief regulatory officer Frank Eggloff. Rougier joins from AllianceBernstein where he spent almost 10 years in…

Jim Kelligrew, vice chair of corporate and commercial banking at U.S. Bank, will be retiring from the company on June 30. Gunjan Kedia will assume an expanded leadership role, overseeing a combined wealth management and investment services and corporate and commercial banking organisation. Kedia is a company vice chair and has been with U.S. Bank,…