UI efa, the Luxembourg-based member of Universal Investment Group, has been appointed to administer Blue Earth Capital’s new open-ended, semi-liquid fund focused on global private credit. Blue Earth Capital is headquartered in Switzerland and has operations in New York, London, and Konstanz.
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BNY hires from Goldman Sachs
BNY has hired Rajashree Datta as deputy chief risk officer. She will be a member of BNY’s ExCo, succeeding Senthil Kumar as BNY’s chief risk officer in 2025, following a transition. Datta joins BNY from Goldman Sachs where she most recently served as a partner and global head of finance risk, responsible for overseeing liquidity,…
Valu-Trac to deploy Multifonds SaaS
Valu-Trac Investment Management Limited, a UK management firm, has selected Temenos Multifonds SaaS to support the development and growth of its fund administration and transfer agency business. Valu-Trac will replace its in-house, on-premise systems with the full end-to-end solution, Temenos Multifonds Global Accounting (MFGA) and Multifonds Global Investor (MFGI), Valu-Trac, offers a range of services,…
Deutsche Börse promotes Kromann
Deutsche Börse AG’s supervisory board has appointed SimCorp CEO Christian Kromann to the executive board of Deutsche Börse AG where he will oversee the Investment Management Solutions (IMS) division. IMS is comprised of two businesses, SimCorp and ISS STOXX. SimCorp veteran and COO Georg Hetrodt will assume Kromann’s current responsibilities as CEO.
Apex partners with Ownera
Apex has partnered with Ownera, a provider of tokenisation interoperability solutions, to deliver Apex’s range of services to any financial institution and issuer with an Ownera router. Ownera’s routers interconnect many of the world’s leading tokenisation platforms, including Digital Assets Canton, R3 Corda, Besu, Quorum, and Tokeny, extending access from these environments to buy-side demand,…
BNPP links to NeoXam
BNP Paribas has launched upgraded post-trade data management services, in association with the Investment Data Solution of NeoXam, a fintech. The service provides the bank’s clients with a range of data management solutions, facilitating the flexible integration of multiple data sources, operated on NeoXam’s technology.
Universal expands in Ireland
Universal Investment Group, the Europe-based fund services platform and Super ManCo, has expanded its services from Universal Investment Ireland to include AIFM services for Irish-domiciled real estate funds. Its first mandate for the newly expanded service is for the ICAV holding Dubin Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, one of the largest retail centres in Ireland.
Equiom hires CRO
Equiom, the C.I. based administrator, has appointed Naveed Shah as chief risk officer. He was previously head of UK & CEEMEA compliance and operational risk at Bank of America.
HSBC supports EIB DLT bond issuance
HSBC has supported the launch of the European Investment Bank’s first bond under the Eurosystem’s exploratory work on new technologies for wholesale central bank money settlement. The EUR100m EIB bond was issued on the HSBC Orion digital assets platform in euros, under Luxembourg law, and settled using wholesale central bank digital currency on the Banque…
HQLAx leads repo trial on DLT
HQLAᵡ, Clearstream and Eurex Repo have collaborated to facilitate intraday DvP repo transactions using DLT in the ECB trials. The ECB trials are part of the Eurosystem exploratory work on new technologies for wholesale central bank money settlement, with trials denoting production transactions using real securities and cash. The transactions took place between Goldman Sachs…