Month: May 2024

State Street has appointed Taryn Siglain as head of financing solutions. Siglain will lead State Street’s agency lending, prime services, and secured (repo) financing businesses. She succeeds Gino Timperio who will retire from State Street at the end of June, and will report to Tony Bisegna, head of Global Markets. Siglain joined State Street from…

Citco has launched a standalone, settlement-exception management service that may help to prevent trade fails. Æxeo FailSafe provides alternative asset managers with an overview of all pre-and post-settlement trading information for their funds across multiple brokers, without the need to review several reports or access multiple portals. Covering pre-and-post-settlement, Æxeo FailSafe provides consolidated oversight across…

BBH has launched a liquidity management tool (LMT) for traditional and alternative funds, allowing asset managers to supervise multiple fund liquidity scenarios based on investor flows in a fully digital, customisable and controlled environment. LMT receives real-time transactional feeds and proactively notifies asset managers if their custom thresholds have been exceeded. LMT supports liquidity management…

Universal Investment Group, the European fund services platform and Super ManCo, has appointed John Burns as its group chief technology officer and a member of the executive board, He joins from DWS Group, where he most recently served as global head of technology and operations.

The acquisition of Link Group by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corporation has been completed. Under its new ownership, Link Group will be rebranded as MUFG Pension & Market Services, comprised of two business lines, MUFG Corporate Markets and MUFG Retirement Solutions. MUFG Retirement Solutions has recently opened an office in Hong Kong.

Partners Group has appointed Northern Trust to provide fund accounting, transfer agency, depositary and corporate secretarial services for its new European Long Term Investment Fund (ELTIF)-compliant Private Equity Evergreen Fund, structured as a Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV. Based in Switzerland, Partners Group is a private markets firm with USD147bn AuM.

The supervisory board of Deutsche Börse AG has appointed Stephanie Eckermann as a new member of the executive board. As of 1 June, she will be leading the newly formed post-trading division, comprised of the securities services and fund services businesses with Clearstream. Eckermann has been managing director at Deutsche Börse Group since 2020. She…