Category: J.P. Morgan

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has appointed BNY Mellon to provide a fully integrated operating model for certain front-office support services, as well as middle- and back-office activities. BNY Mellon will provide a comprehensive solution which encompasses asset services including custody, fund administration and depositary, as well as more advanced…

Following the appointment of Dennis Burgers as co-head of EMEA sales for J.P. Morgan’s investor services business, Michelle Butler has been confirmed as the other co-head. Butler was previously head of sales for UK & Ireland, having joined from HSBC at the beginning of 2022. This follows the recent hiring of BNY Mellon’s Ileana Sodani…

Lars Heise has joined BNY Mellon as global head of fund tax services, based in the U.S. He was previously at J.P. Morgan. BNY Mellon recently entered into a multi-year licensing agreement to adopt the Xceptor tax platform. In 2021, BNY Mellon substantially bolstered its global tax team, hiring Liam Stanbridge from State Street as…

Ultimus Fund Solutions, an independent provider of fund administration and investor solutions with USD400bn AuA, has hired Shannon Thibeaux-Burgess as an SVP in the relationship management team. Thibeaux-Burgess most recently served as head of regulatory services at J.P. Morgan. Prior to that, she was chief administrative officer on the fund administration legal team at State…

Ileana Sodani has joined J.P. Morgan’s asset servicing business as head of global sales execution. Based in the UK, she is responsible for instilling a sales culture and approach across the client-facing securities servicing organisation by managing sales execution, strategy and approach. Sodani spent 30 years at BNY Mellon, most recently as global head of…

Arcesium, a U.S.-based fintech in which J.P. Morgan has a stake, has appointed Mahesh Narayan as institutional asset manager segment head. Narayan will oversee Arcesium’s delivery of its capabilities that support institutional asset managers, including the firm’s cloud-native data platform, investment lifecycle solutions, and associated financial operations. He has joined from BlackRock, where he was…