TMF Group, a Netherlands-based provider of financial and corporate services, has appointed Ellen Stiene as market head for North America and the Caribbean. Her career spans executive roles at leading financial institutions, including Citi, J.P. Morgan and, most recently, Wells Fargo.
Category: J.P. Morgan
AccessFintech launches FI settlement solution
Synergy from AccessFintach, the fintech, has launched Settlement Netting, which aims to improve operational efficiency in the fixed income markets. Synergy by AccessFintech captures data from a wide range of asset classes, including securities, derivatives, alternatives, and payments, enabling data transformations across network participants. J.P. Morgan and Citi were instrumental in the establishment of the…
HSBC hires top J.P. Morgan exec
HSBC has hired Jane Masen as global head of custody, effective immediately. She is based in London, reporting to Fiona Horsewill, global head of securities services. She joins from J.P. Morgan, where she was global head of network management. Suvir Loomba has been global head of custody since 2022, and will continue in his role…
Pirum hires from J.P. Morgan
Pirum, the fintech for securities finance automation and collateral management, has hired Ed Corral as head of collateral services. Corral joins Pirum’s New York office to lead the expansion of CollateralConnect, the firm’s collateral management and optimisation solution. Corral joins Pirum from J.P. Morgan, where he was global head of collateral management.
Equiniti hires Kramer
Equiniti, the UK-based shareholder services business, has appointed Dan Kramer as chief executive to lead its combined global shareholder services division. Kramer and his leadership team will focus on unifying EQ’s current UK and U.S. shareholder services divisions into a single business unit. Kramer will report to the group chief executive officer, Paul Lynam, and…
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,…
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…
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),…
Davides quits Broadridge
Lauren Davides has joined J.P. Morgan as an executive director in the product management team, based in Boston. Davides spent nearly 10 years at State Street – most recently as chief of staff for its digital business – before a brief spell at Broadridge.