Following its decision to develop its digital asset servicing business with Taurus, CACEIS has created a Digital Assets Factory, which brings together all business lines – custody, investment management services, 3D (digital, data, dissemination), and support functions, product development, compliance, legal and public affairs. A first MVP (minimum viable product) for custody is currently being…
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CACEIS hires new pensions supremo
CACEIS has appointed Wouter Peters as global head, center of excellence for pensions (CEP). He will join the ExCo of CACEIS Netherlands. Peters will be responsible for CACEIS’ pension proposition worldwide. He joins from Aegon Asset Management where he was COO for the last nine years.
CACEIS allies with Taurus
CACEIS has signed an agreement with Taurus, a Swiss company that focuses on the digital assets and blockchain space, to use its platform. CACEIS’ objective is to offer secure custody of digital assets using Taurus-PROTECT, including automated corporate action processing, dividend payments and Smart Contract management, digital asset issuance and tokenisation on blockchain using Taurus-CAPITAL,…
IQ-EQ hires head of depositary
IQ-EQ has appointed Thomas Korteweg as head of depositary. He is based in the Netherlands. Korteweg joins from CACEIS.
HSBC hires ETF specialist
HSBC has hired Rob Rushe as global product head for ETF servicing, based in Dublin. Rushe joins from CACEIS, where he spent less than a year. He has previously worked at BNY Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust.
CACEIS & CA arrange bridge financing for Antin
CACEIS and Crédit Agricole CIB are supporting Antin Infrastructure Partners, the independent private equity firm focused on infrastructure investment, with the structuring of equity bridge financing for its first NextGen infrastructure fund. CACEIS has acted as the fund’s depositary, and Crédit Agricole CIB acted as arrangers and lenders of the EUR180m (USD195m) facility.
London CIV appoints CACEIS for cost analysis
LGPS CIV LTD (London CIV), which manages London’s Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) assets, has appointed CACEIS to provide cost transparency and benchmarking services.
CACEIS supports new green hydrogen fund
CACEIS has been mandated by Hy24, an investment management firm specialising in green hydrogen infrastructure investment, to provide custody and registrar services for its first fund. In 2021 Ardian, a private equity investor, and FiveT Hydrogen, an investment platform focused on green hydrogen infrastructure projects, formed Hy24. The fund, Clean H2 Infra Fund SLP, will…
CSC appoints new Netherlands head
CSC, the U.S.-based provider of corporate and fund services, has appointed Remko Dieker as managing director of its global financial markets division, overseeing the Netherlands office. He joins from CACEIS. He reports to Jonathan Hanly, managing director, Europe, succeeding Birgitte van den Broek, who is stepping down from her leadership role but will remain as…
Northern Trust hires in Switzerland
Northern Trust has appointed Neda Derlokova as a business development manager in Switzerland. This follows Northern Trust’s regulatory approval earlier this year to offer local custodian, depositary, transfer agency and ancillary services to institutional investors and managers in the Swiss market. Derlokova joins from CACEIS.