Month: January 2023

HIGHVERN, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed Colm Clifford as an Irish Independent Non-Executive Director. He will join the board as an INED and chair, alongside Ireland country head, Philip Dempsey, and fellow directors Emma Keane and Adrian Bailie. Clifford is a former KPMG audit partner, holding various senior leadership roles specialising in financial services.

The Employees Provident Fund Board of Malaysia (EPF) has appointed BNY Mellon to deliver an investment accounting service. In addition to custody solutions BNY Mellon currently provides for the EPF, this broader remit aims to deliver a solution for fund accounting and administration of the entire public assets of the EPF, with increased automation and…

New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund, the NZD58.7bn (USD37.2bn) NZ Super Fund, has renewed its longstanding asset servicing and custody relationship with Northern Trust, which will continue to provide global custody, compliance monitoring and securities lending services. The fund first appointed Northern Trust in 2007.

HSBC has appointed Alistair Bentivoglio as head of global product delivery for securities services. This role brings together the direct custody & clearing and investor services delivery functions. He joined HSBC’s securities services strategy team in 2020 from BNY Mellon. He reports to Sébastien Danloy, interim global head of securities services, and will join the…

Zodia Custody, the UK-based crypto custody service from Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust, has appointed Julian Sawyer as its new chief executive. Sawyer takes over from Maxime de Guillebon, who was seconded from Standard Chartered’s innovation unit, SC Ventures, in 2020. Sawyer was most recently CEO of Bitstamp, a crypto exchange.

Enfusion, a provider of cloud-native SaaS solutions for investment managers, has confirmed Oleg Movchan as CEO. Movchan has been serving as interim CEO since August 2022. He has been an Enfusion investor and board member for more than ten years.