StonePine Asset Management, a Montreal-based manager with CAD60bn (USD46bn) AuM, has appointed CIBC Mellon to provide asset servicing solutions including fund accounting and administration, global custody, unitholder recordkeeping, and investment information data access and reporting via the NEXEN investment data platform. Earlier this year StonePine signed an agreement with SimCorp, a provider of SaaS investment…
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J.P. Morgan hires Ileana Sodani
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…
Aztec hires State Street exec in Ireland
Aztec, the C.I.-based administrator, has hired Kevin Hogan as head of fund services Ireland. He was previously at State Street, where he spent seven years.
HSBC gains ADGM licence
HSBC has expanded its markets and securities services business into the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), obtaining an arranging custody licence for sovereign, institutional and investment manager clients. The expansion connects clients to a custodian network across 96 markets and provides a digital platform for securities services activities.
Remaco appoints AssetMetrix
Remaco, a Switzerland-based asset manager, has appointed AssetMetrix as partner for digitisation of its private debt operations. Remaco specialises in the private debt asset class. Founded in 2013 in Munich, AssetMetrix is a spin-off of a PE fund-of-funds manager. Its outsourcing services around data collection, fund administration, reporting and analysis aim to enhance the efficiency…
FundGuard hires pre-sales director
Amir Dehestani has joined FundGuard as pre-sales director. He was previously at BNY Mellon. FundGuard is a U.S.-based fintech offering an investment management and administration platform.
Arcesium hires from BlackRock
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…
DTCC launches 1042-S service
DTCC has launched a new service, the 1042-S Classification Announcement. The new offering will enable issuers to directly provide DTCC’s subsidiary, DTC, with IRS Form 1042-S tax withholding information on distributions prior to the payable date, lowering the amount of tax withheld on distributions for non-U.S. investors. DTCC collaborated with BlackRock and Citi’s securities services…
Gen II hires head of credit
Gen II Fund Services, LLC, a U.S.-based independent private capital fund administrator, has hired Michael Abatemarco as head of credit. He will lead the credit fund administration and credit middle office services business, which provides private credit fund clients with an end-to-end service model. Prior to joining Gen II, Abatemarco served as director, head of…
Northern Trust adds two seniors to NA bus dev team
Northern Trust has hired two senior managers from BNY Mellon to join its North American asset servicing business development team. Dean Marziarz will lead business development for Private Capital Fund Services, which provides middle- and back-office solutions for a range of alternative investment managers. He has more than 20 years of asset servicing experience at…