Arcesium, the fintech in which J.P. Morgan holds a stake, has launched Aquata, an “out-of-the-box” data platform. Aquata is engineered to support various client types, including institutional asset managers, private markets investors, custodians, fund administrators, prime brokers, and hedge funds, to manage their investment data. With Aquata’s pre-built data models and connectors, combined with its…
Category: J.P. Morgan
Swift appoints new chair
The Swift board of directors has elected J.P. Morgan’s Graeme Munro as non-executive chair, and Samantha Emery of Lloyds Banking Group as non-executive deputy chair. The appointments follow the decision of Yawar Shah, chairman for 16 years, to stand down.
J.P. Morgan to acquire Aumni
J.P. Morgan has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aumni, a provider of investment analytics software to the venture capital industry. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and closing is expected in the first half of 2023. Founded in 2018, Aumni’s proprietary data analytics engine structures, tracks and analyses legal and economic…
BNY Mellon appoints global head of operations
BNY Mellon has hired Richard Gordon as global head of operations. Based in the UK, Gordon will report to Alejandro Perez, who recently assumed overall oversight responsibility for operations in addition to his existing role as CAO. Gordon was most recently global head of securities services operations and network management at J.P. Morgan, where he…
Aztec adds senior trio to U.S. team
Aztec Group has appointed Ore Adegbotolu, Dan Kalish and David Naab to new leadership roles in the U.S., where it established a presence in 2021 to provide fund and corporate accounting and administration services to the private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and private debt sectors. Adegbotolu is appointed head of U.S. markets, transferring…
U.S. Bancorp invests in Ownera
U.S. Bancorp has joined Ownera’s Series A investment round. Ownera is a fintech working on an interoperability network for tokenized assets. Ownera aims to digitise private markets, allowing banks, asset managers and exchanges to route assets more efficiently. Other participants in the funding round include J.P. Morgan. In 2021 U.S. Bank invested in Lumint and…
Jaid adds top talent to board
Kelly Mathieson has joined Jaid’s board of directors. UK-based Jaid is an Al-powered automation platform that extracts critical data from all company and client communications across all channels. It analyses and organises the data into meaningful, actionable insights and integrates with existing systems and workflows. Mathieson spent 26 years at J.P. Morgan in a variety…
SEBA Bank hires APAC CEO
SEBA Bank, the Swiss-based crypto bank, has appointed Amy Yu as CEO of its APAC division. Yu will initially be located in Singapore. SEBA Bank recently opened a Hong Kong office. She previously worked at Genesis as APAC head of sales. Prior to her move into the digital assets space, Yu supported the development of…
BNY Mellon appoints Caroline Butler as CEO of digital assets
BNY Mellon has appointed Caroline Butler as CEO of digital assets. Butler joined BNY Mellon in 2020 as global head of custody after nearly two decades at J.P. Morgan. As the CEO of digital assets, she will continue to report to Roman Regelman, CEO of securities services and digital. As CEO of custody services, she…
Northern Trust hires from JPM
Northern Trust has appointed Natalie Leaver as head of asset owner business development, UK & Ireland. She replaces Ian Hamilton, who has been appointed head of UK asset owners, succeeding Mark Austin, who has been named pensions sector lead for EMEA. She joins from J.P. Morgan, where she spent 17 years, most recently as head…