Category: People

TMF Group, the Netherlands-based professional services firm, has appointed two senior managers to lead its operations in the Channel Islands. Tim Houghton has been appointed overall market head for the Channel Islands, and James Dolton has been appointed as managing director for the Guernsey business. Both are internal appointments.

Following last year’s departure of Dan Houlihan, heat of asset servicing for the Americas, Northern Trust has taken the opportunity to reorganise its U.S. business lines across asset servicing. Toby Glaysher, currently head of Global Fund Services (GFS) International, will expand his responsibilities to become president of GFS, adding the U.S. to his EMEA and…

Deutsche Bank has appointed Mathew Kathayanat (widely known as Mat Kat) as APAC head of securities services product management. He will be based in Singapore. He was most recently head of product & strategy, APAC at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, and has previously held a variety of roles with Citi in EMEA and APAC.

Vistra, the Singapore-based administrator, has promoted Jason Burgoyne to regional managing director for the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, & the Middle East. He takes over from Derek Kemp, who has recently taken on the new role of Vistra’s chief operations & transformation officer.

IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based investor services provider, has scored a major coup with the hiring of Emma Crabtree as group chief commercial officer. Crabtree joins from BNP Paribas Securities Services, where she was global head of sales for the asset manager and alternatives segments. Before joining BP2S in 2016, Crabtree spent nearly 20 years at RBC.…

Apex has appointed John Davis as managing director, Singapore. Reporting to Valerie Mantot-Groene, regional managing director, APAC, he will be responsible for leading a team of over 100 local staff. He was most recently managing director, Singapore at Mainstream Group, the Australia-based administrator that Apex acquired in 2021.