BNY has appointed Madiha Sattar as managing director and growth ventures partner, in a global role based in the United Arab Emirates. In this newly created role, Sattar joins the leadership team of BNY’s growth ventures business. Sattar joins BNY from Careem, the MENA region’s largest tech exit.
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Avanza outsources to Northern Trust
Avanza Fonder, a Stockholm-based fund company providing services for private clients, has appointed Northern Trust to provide its Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS) outsourced trading desk services. Avanza Fonder is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avanza Bank Holding. The fund company manages funds in-house and in collaboration with other managers. Northern Trust will provide outsourced trading…
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,…
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.
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…
FINBOURNE appoints Asia sales head
FINBOURNE Technology, the UK-based fintech, has appointed Peter Edwards as head of sales for Asia, based in Singapore. He joins from Eagle Investment Systems, a BNY company.
Grande joins U.S. Bank
U.S. Bank has appointed Thomas Grande as an alternatives relationship manager in its global fund services business. He is based in Boston and joined from Aliter Investment Services.
Cboe to clear European SFTs
Cboe Clear Europe, the pan-European clearing house, has received regulatory approval to clear European securities financing transactions (SFTs), granted by De Nederlandsche Bank and the Autoriteit Financiële Markten. With this approval, Cboe Clear Europe is set to introduce a first-of-its-kind service for European SFT transactions in cash equities and ETFs, which includes central clearing, settlement…
Capitolis raises more funds
Capitolis, the fintech focused on capital markets, has received new investments from four banks. The new funding round is led by Citi and includes State Street, both existing investors in Capitolis, as well as new investors Morgan Stanley, and UBS. Each bank will invest USD5m and will join other existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z),…