Year: 2024

IDR, the private funds clearinghouse, has appointed Jason Meklinsky as chief revenue officer, based in the U.S. He joins from Suntera. IDR is the investor clearinghouse for private markets, connecting over 53,000 investors with 8,400 funds and 500 managers.

2Xideas AG has expanded its relationship with Northern Trust to include Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS). The Switzerland-based investment firm, with c. USD2bn in AuM, first appointed Northern Trust in 2022 as the firm’s fund accounting, financial reporting, transfer agency, custody, and depositary services provider. The firm currently manages four funds and several managed accounts, which…

JTC, the C.I.-based services provider, plans to acquire Citi Trust, the global fiduciary and trust administration services business, from Citigroup. Citi Trust provides trust solutions from New York, Delaware, South Dakota, Jersey, Singapore, Switzerland and the Bahamas. Total AuA serviced by Citi Trust is >USD70bn across over 2,000 UHNW client relationships, with an average tenure…

ZEDRA, the Switzerland-based services provider, has appointed Dean Blackburn as deputy CEO. He joins from JTC, where he began in 2019 as group director to the CEO’s office. He later served as JTC’s chief commercial officer before taking up the group head of institutional client services role in 2022.

Northern Trust has launched the Northern Trust Carbon Ecosystem with the first live transactions on the blockchain-based platform which enables institutional buyers to digitally access carbon credits from leading project developers. The transactions were initiated by Water Recovery Systems IP Limited and CUT Carbon Distributed Technologies AG, which sold carbon credits to institutional buyers for…

SS&C has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Battea-Class Action Services, LLC, a provider of securities class action claims management and settlement recovery services. The purchase price is c. USD670m, subject to certain adjustments. Battea helps more than 900 banks, asset managers hedge funds and proprietary trading firms to receive the maximum distribution of entitled…

Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions, which services nearly 220 alternative managers with USD235bn AuA, has formed a partnership with Cascata Solutions, the provider of automated distribution waterfall and management solutions, to launch uWaterfall. uWaterfall elevates carried interest and fee management through data transfer, automated high-precision waterfall calculations, and full-formula transparency.

Pirum, the UK-based fintech focused on securities finance and collateral management, has appointed Amit Kohli as EMEA key account management director. He joins from KPMG, where he helped to build the firm’s capital markets consulting business.