BNY Mellon continues to build out its digital senior management team, announcing three new hires. Hadley Stern joins as global head of digital custody, responsible for overseeing business and product development for the digital custody offering. He was most recently head of Amazon Web Services’ innovation labs. He will report to Caroline Butler, head of…
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Sphera selects SS&C’s EZE front office solution
Sphera, a Tel Aviv and New York-based long/short global investment firm with USD1.9bn AuM, has chosen SS&C’s Eze Investment Suite for its front-office operations. Sphera will use Eze Investment Suite to run its entire investment process, including order management, modelling and simulations, cash projections, trading, compliance checks, historical book of records and reporting. Sphera also…
Dalmore appoints NatWest T&D for new PE fund
NatWest Trustee and Depositary Services, part of Royal Bank of Scotland, has been appointed as depositary for a new Dalmore Capital Limited Fund, Dalmore Capital Fund 4 LP. Dalmore Capital is a UK-based fund management company which focuses on investment in infrastructure assets in the UK. It currently manages over GBP5.5bn (USD7.5bn).
True appoints Mainspring for new PE fund
Mainspring, a UK-based administrator, has been appointed as fund administrator for True’s third private equity investment fund of GBP275m (USD377m).
PEF appointed by RFE
PEF Services LLC, the alternatives administrator recently acquired by CSC, has been appointed by RFE Investment Partners to provide fund administration services. RFE is a U.S.-based private equity firm.
Laura Hazzard joins Sanne
Laura Hazzard has joined Sanne as a director within the private equity division in Jersey, C.I. She was previously at Apex.
HSBC supports Premia ETF launch on HKSE
HSBC has supported the listing of the Premia China STAR50 ETF on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with an initial launch size of RMB 204m (USD32m), HSBC has been appointed to provide trustee, global custodian, fund administrator, swap counterparty and cross border equity execution services for the fund.
Margarita Murray joins Citco
Margarita Murray, who left the industry in 2018 after working for Standard Chartered and HSBC in the U.S., has joined Citco as a senior relationship manager, based in New York.
Northern Trust takes stake in Essentia Analytics
Northern Trust has reached an agreement to take an equity stake in Essentia Analytics, Ltd., a provider of behavioral analytics and consulting services that utilises a cloud-based platform to bring together historical data and behavioral science to identify and address biases in thinking that impact investment performance. The addition of Essentia behavioral analytics solutions is…
Water Island Capital converts mutual fund to ETF
Water Island Capital has converted the Water Island Long/Short Fund (Nasdaq: ATQIX), a mutual fund within The Arbitrage Funds series trust, to the AltShares Event-Driven ETF (NYSE Arca: EVNT). State Street facilitated the conversion.