Category: Bank Providers

Patrycja Dos Santos has joined AssetMetrix as middle office solutions specialist, based in Paris. She has held senior positions at Access Capital Partners, Quilvest Capital Partners, BNP Paribas Asset Management and, most recently, Sienna Private Credit. Based in Germany, AssetMetrix provides front-, middle- and back-office outsourcing solutions for private capital investors. BNP Paribas took a…

The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, BNY Mellon‘s European Bank, has established a new branch in Poland. From April 2023, the branch in Wroclaw will support the work of the European Bank and other BNY Mellon legal entities delivering administrative and operational support services. BNY Mellon has had a presence in Wroclaw since 2010.…

Pirum, the UK-based fintech, has extended its connectivity with BNY Mellon through its collateral management platform, CollateralConnect, to allow mutual clients to self-direct triparty collateral allocations using its optimisation algorithm. By leveraging Pirum’s existing market-wide connectivity, the platform now offers a full front-to-back solution to support enterprise-wide optimization across fixed income, securities finance and derivatives.…

Aztec, the C.I.-based alternatives administrator, has established a presence in Ireland with a hub in Kilkenny. This follows the appointment in 2022 of Kevin Hogan as head of Ireland fund services. Hogan joined from State Street. A recruitment drive is now underway to build a team of approximately 30. The roles will cover private equity,…

Zodia Custody, the UK-based crypto custodian owned by Standard Chartered and operated in association with Northern Trust, has registered its Irish unit with Luxembourg’s financial regulator, CSSF. The registration will allow Zodia to provide digital asset custody services in Luxembourg.

Singlife, the Singapore-based financial services provider, has appointed Citi and BlackRock Aladdin to provide a technology platform to unify its asset management capabilities across its front, middle and back-office. The selection process began with a tender for 11 different front-office and back-office partners, with a total of 28 different combinations assessed. The final selection was…

BNY Mellon has hired Richard Gordon as global head of operations. Based in the UK, Gordon will report to Alejandro Perez, who recently assumed overall oversight responsibility for operations in addition to his existing role as CAO. Gordon was most recently global head of securities services operations and network management at J.P. Morgan, where he…

Redwheel, a UK-based asset manager with c. USD19bn AuM, has adopted the data aggregation tool developed by Equity Data Science to enhance ESG integration across its investment business. Northern Trust took a stake in EDS in 2021 and jointly launched an ESG workflow solution that allows investors to access and share ESG information. The data…

Aztec Group has appointed Ore Adegbotolu, Dan Kalish and David Naab to new leadership roles in the U.S., where it established a presence in 2021 to provide fund and corporate accounting and administration services to the private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and private debt sectors. Adegbotolu is appointed head of U.S. markets, transferring…