Dinosaur Financial Group, a New York-based brokerage firm serving institutions, family offices, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, dealers, and corporations, has appointed Kirk Sauer as managing director, emerging markets.

Maples and Calder (Luxembourg), the Maples Group’s law firm in the Grand Duchy, has appointed Manfred Dietrich as a partner in the firm’s Funds & Investment Management team. 

Skolem Technologies, an institutional-grade asset management and execution services providing investor access to  DeFi markets, has appointed Jonathan Tamblyn as chief people officer. 

Private global asset manager PineBridge Investments has appointed Omar Slim and Andy Suen as co-heads of Asia ex-Japan fixed income, effective 3 January 2023 ahead of the forthcoming retirement of veteran Arthur Lau, Co-Head of Emerging Markets and Head of Asia ex-Japan Fixed Income, in June 2023.

Cboe Global Markets Inc, a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, has appointed Vikesh Patel as president of Cboe Clear Europe, its pan-European clearing house.  Patel, who will join the company in early 2023, subject to regulatory approval, replaces Cécile Nagel, who stepped down from the role in September this year. Patel has over fifteen years of experience in financial market infrastructure and is joining from SWIFT, where he was most recently Head of Securities with responsibility for leading its securities strategy globally. Prior to joining SWIFT in 2017, Patel was a chief operating officer at LCH, focusing

RBC BlueBay Asset Management has made two appointments in its Environmental, Social and Governance Investment team: Younes Hassar has joined the London office as senior ESG analyst, while Emir Beganovic has joined the Minneapolis office as an ESG Analyst. 

Top hedge fund talent is migrating from the traditional financial centres of London and New York to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain, on the back of cost-of-living and tax increases, according to a report by Financial News.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc (CBOE), a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, has elected Hillary A Sale as a new member of the Boards of Directors for the Cboe US Securities Exchanges, Cboe Futures Exchange, and Cboe SEF.  Sale is the Associate Dean for Strategy, the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance, and a Professor of Management at Georgetown University.   Sale is being added as an additional director on each of the boards, bringing the number of directors on each board to nine.   Sale joined Georgetown University in 2018, where she is currently

ICG, a global alternative asset manager, has appointed Remko van der Erf as Managing Director, to drive fundraising and service ICG’s client base in the Benelux region. Van der Erf will be based in ICG’s Amsterdam office and work alongside longstanding Managing Director, Leo Houtekamer. Van der Erf has over 20 years of institutional asset management experience, managing and marketing award-winning multi-manager funds in alternative asset classes. Prior to joining ICG, he spent nearly 14 years at Van Lanschot Kempen, most latterly as managing director of fixed income and alternative credit within the firm’s manager research solutions team. From 2002