Alison Manley has joined the Ireland board of Universal Investment, the Germany-based administrator, as an independent non-executive director and chair. She has over 25 years’ experience developing funds and financial products and is an experienced non-executive director of Irish regulated UCITS, AIFs and ManCos. Manley established and was CEO of Goodbody Fund Management, a Super…
Month: October 2022
BNY Mellon and Pirum launch optimisation service
BNY Mellon and Pirum, a fintech specialising in trading markets, have launched a joint optimisation service to offer collateral providers margining, risk management and inventory management to drive improved risk/return outcomes. The solution, ECPOConnect, combines BNY Mellon’s collateral management service, ECPO, which optimises more than USD4trn in assets globally, with Pirum’s CollateralConnect platform, a SaaS…
Apex appoints chief risk officer
Andrew Jones has been appointed chief risk officer for Apex Group. He previously held the same role at Sanne, which Apex acquired earlier this year. He is based in Jersey, C.I.
CIBC Mellon supports new Van Berkom fund
Van Berkom and Associates has launched its new Global Small Cap Strategy, a pooled fund. Founded in 1991, Van Berkom is a small cap specialist investment firm held 100pct by its employees. Van Berkom manages Canadian, U.S, Greater China and global strategies. As of June 30, 2022, Van Berkom and its Hong Kong affiliate had…
Ultimus supports MF conversion to ETF
Ultimus Fund Solutions, the U.S.-based independent provider of fund administration, accounting, and investor solutions, has supported the conversion of the Conductor mutual fund to an ETF. in its role as accounting agent, administrator, distributor and chief compliance officer, Ultimus partnered with IronHorse Capital, a longstanding client, to facilitate this conversion. Converting to an ETF allows…
Apex launches compliance solutions in U.S.
Apex has expanded its global compliance solutions service to the U.S. market. The global compliance solutions team provides clients with tech-enabled compliance and AML solutions. The expansion into the U.S. market will help to address clients’ risks and concerns around ESG, AML and financial crime, as well as delivering compliance advisory support including for emerging…
Teschner to retire from BNY Mellon
Charles Teschner, co-CEO of BNY Mellon’s data & platform solutions business, is to retire at the end of October. Teschner, who joined in 2019 from BCG, was instrumental in advancing the bank’s data strategy and implementation. Mark McKeon, his co-CEO, will continue in that role. In a statement, BNY Mellon said: “BNY Mellon thanks Charles…
TrustQuay gets new investor
TrustQuay, the UK-based technology provider to the global trust, corporate and fund services industry, has announced that Hg, a leading software and services investor, has become the majority investor in the business. As part of the transaction, the TrustQuay management team will continue in the business whilst the former majority owner, Silverfleet Capital, has fully…
Gen II hires two seniors from Citco
Gen II Fund Services, the U.S.-based independent private capital fund administrator, has appointed Nikolaos Perros as chief operating officer and Ishita Shah as chief commercial officer. Most recently, Perros was head of private equity at Citco Fund Services. Shah also joins from Citco, where she was head of private equity, North America. Gen II has…
Gorman steps down from U.S. Bank
Linda Gorman has stepped down from her role as CEO of U.S. Bank Global Fund Services – Europe. She joined U.S. Bank following its acquisition of Quintillion in 2013. Gorman will be replaced by Ken Somerville, currently COO.