Eventus Systems, a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has appointed Josh Bosquez as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Bosquez joins the company with 24 years of software engineering experience, including more than 20 years in leadership roles in technology innovation, cloud-native platforms, cybersecurity and compliance.   For the past three years, Bosquez served as Chief Technology Officer at Armor Cloud Security, responsible for the firm’s engineering, product, security and compliance organizations for the Software-as-a-Service cybersecurity offering.

Centaur Fund Services has further expanded its Luxembourg senior team with the appointment of Kevin McFadden as Head of Investor Services, Luxembourg. This new addition to its senior team supports Centaur’s Luxembourg expansion and boosts Centaur’s global profile.  With over fifteen years’ experience in the Fund Administration sector, McFadden has a proven track record in investor services. An experienced fund administration professional and leader, Kevin McFadden will report to Centaur’s CEO of Luxembourg, Antonio Frias and lead a team of employees who are responsible for maintaining relationships with investors and analysts, and providing them with specialist accounting, investor relations, customised

Copper.co, a provider of digital asset custody and trading infrastructure, has appointed Sabrina Wilson as Chief Operating Officer. Wilson takes up her new role with immediate effect. Wilson was formerly the Global co-Head of the Futures, OTC Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage business at Citi and also oversaw a period of development of the bank’s global execution and algorithmic platforms in Futures. Throughout her career, she has navigated many regulatory changes, such as the introduction of MIFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR and more recently advised the EU Commission and ESMA on Clearing regulation, which makes her well-placed to steer Copper through

Singapore Exchange-backed private market platform ADDX has appointed Oi-Yee Choo was its Chief Executive Officer, subject to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) approval. The ADDX platform was founded in 2017 and began full commercial operations in 2020 after becoming one of the first digital securities exchanges to graduate from the MAS Fintech Regulatory Sandbox. Leading the company into its next phase of growth, Ms Choo projects that the ADDX platform will record USD1 billion in transactions by 2023, entrenching its position as Asia’s largest private market exchange. As a multi-asset exchange, ADDX has onboarded funds, bonds and equities. Asset

Options, a provider of managed trading infrastructure to the global Capital Markets, has appointed Jim Bomer as SVP, Director Market Data Division. Bomer joined Options late last year following the ACTIV Financial acquisition, where he served for 19 years as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his role with ACTIV, he held a variety of Capital Markets roles in London, Frankfurt, and Chicago and has more than 25 years of experience in the real-time trading and market data sector. In his new role, Bomer has responsibility for the product strategy, development and operations of Options’ market data division, which

Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, has promoted two of its lawyers in Asia, Andrew Wood and Josie Ainley, to Partners in the firm’s Asia Funds & Investment management practice. Andrew’s practice focuses on investment funds for Asian clients and includes advising on all aspects relating to the formation and maintenance of both private equity and hedge funds. Ainley meanwhile, focuses on investment funds for international clients advising on all aspects relating to the formation and maintenance of both private equity and hedge funds, including extensive regulatory advice. Notably, the firm’s Asia Funds & Investment Management practice led

LPA, a capital markets technology and advisory firm, has appointed Paolo de Vito as its new Head of Business Development, Italy. In his role, de Vito will lead the opening of the Italian branch of LPA and be responsible for the business development, strategy, and growth of LPA’s activity in the region. Paolo will be based in Italy and will work to help LPA’s clients to transform and digitise their activity, maximising productivity and ensure regulatory compliance.   De Vito has over 25 years of international experience in the marketing and sales of services and technologies in financial services and

Elevation Securities has hired Paul Young as Senior Managing Director, Senior Special Situations Analyst in the Special Situations Group. Young will be based in New York City and report to Ian Harris, Senior Managing Director and Head of Research, who leads the Event Driven team. Young joins Elevation Securities with over two decades of industry experience, most recently as a Senior Analyst on the Event Driven Research team at Olivetree Financial. Previously, he held similar positions at UBS, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Truist. Elevation Securities has a dedicated team of analysts, data scientists, consultants and sales professionals who

PineBridge Investments (PineBridge), a private, global asset manager focused on active, high-conviction investing, today announced that William Corson has joined the firm as Global Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). In this role, Corson assumes global responsibility for PineBridge’s compliance capabilities, focusing on delivering robust oversight and counsel across all global entities and activities.   He joins PineBridge from Manulife Investment Management, where he held various compliance leadership roles since joining in 2008. Prior to that, he spent more than a decade at Fidelity Investments and has operated in numerous CCO roles throughout his career, each time leveraging his extensive experience to

Indus Capital Partners (Indus), a dedicated Asia Pacific equities investment manager, has appointed Patrick McCurdy, former senior leader in Wells Fargo’s Prime Services division, as a Managing Director, and Isabel Borish, former business development and investor relations professional with AllianceBernstein, as an Executive Director in the firm’s Client Advisory Group. Borish joined on 28 February, 2022, while McCurdy will be joining on 11 April, 2022.    Both executives will be responsible for new business development and client coverage in North America and globally. They will report to Zlata Gleason, Head of Indus’ Client Advisory Group, who rejoined the firm in