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Enfusion, a global provider of investment management technology solutions and services, has appointed Nancy Dornbush, as Executive Vice President, Global Head of Managed Services.
Gramercy Funds Management has expanded its presence in London with the hiring of two experienced research analysts through its affiliated entity Gramercy Ltd. Tolu Alamutu joined as Senior Vice President in June 2020 and James Barry joined as Vice President in November 2019. Both report to Philip Meier, Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Debt.
“The addition of Tolu and James to our research team not only strengthens Gramercy’s research capabilities, particularly in the critical regions of CEEMEA and Asia, but also reaffirms our commitment to increasing our footprint in London and Europe more broadly,” says Meier, “Despite the recent
Mark Ferguson has been appointed as Head of UK Wholesale Distribution at Kames Capital.
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Eventus Systems, a global trade surveillance and risk management software platform provider, has appointed Jeff Gale as Sales Director, EMEA, based in London. Gale has more than three decades of experience in finance and technology across multiple asset classes, in business development, strategic finance and other key roles. Most recently, he served as Co-Founder at Seismic Foundry, a capital markets fintech fund and consultancy focused on promising early-stage firms.
Reporting to Scott Schroeder, Global Head of Sales, Gale will build and maintain new relationships with firms throughout the region with the goal of further accelerating adoption of the Validus platform that
YRD Capital, a Fund of Funds (FoF) focused on quantitative trading in digital assets, has appointed Ian Morely as Chairman.Founded in 2017, YRD Capital has the longest performing track record in the digital asset sector and has enjoyed year on year growth since its launch. It has also built a solid reputation among the fast developing asset class investors as a result of the firm’s thorough due diligence process, negotiating best terms and fees for its clients and close monitoring of its portfolio funds.
The firm is represented across the UK, US and Asia and is run by co-founders Yuval
Everysk Technologies, an investment technology company providing multi-asset portfolio analytics with data-centric, machine learning techniques, has appointed Terri Engelman Rhoads, a former partner of Guggenheim Group, and tech entrepreneur Rufus Griscom, to its Board of Advisers.The company also announced that Nick Beattie has joined as Partner, heading up Business Development.
“We are in the midst of an exciting growth period for Everysk and these three individuals are adding tremendous value to our business,” says Allan Brik, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of Everysk and former Partner and Chief Risk Officer at multi-billion-dollar hedge fund-of-funds Arden Asset Management.
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Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, has added David Pearson to its product team. Pearson brings over thirty years of experience working in technology solutions for financial markets, focusing on workflow and automation in the front office and post-trade space. He joins Torstone from Genesis Global, where he was responsible for post-trade workflow solutions. Prior to that, Pearson spent twenty-five years at Fidessa, initially working with sell-side brokers and dealers to build and implement front and middle-office workflow solutions for equities, and more recently, with buy-side firms to challenge the status quo in other asset classes including
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay) is taking on the US CLO Management business of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), BlueBay’s parent.
The US based CLO Management business has moved across to BlueBay to be integrated into BlueBay’s CLO management platform, under the leadership of Sid Chhabra, who joined BlueBay in 2018 to build the firm’s structured credit and CLO capabilities.
The US based team of four experienced individuals and the USD500 million CLO they manage expands BlueBay’s capabilities in US Leverage Loans and CLOs and strengthens the 26 strong leveraged finance team of investment professionals, who manage
London-based RJ O’Brien Limited (RJO Limited), sister company of Chicago-based independent futures brokerage and clearing firm RJ O’Brien & Associates (RJO), has appointed a veteran team of brokers to establish a new specialty in soft commodities.
Gary Papier, James Hunt and David Cutler have extensive experience in futures and commodities, particularly in coffee, sugar, cocoa and cotton.
The team reports to Renée Laird, RJO Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Commercial Agriculture and OTC Markets. Papier and Hunt are both Senior Vice President and Soft Commodities Co-Head. Cutler is Vice President, Soft Commodities. Papier and Hunt have worked together for the
Balchug Capital, an event-driven and value investment manager with particular focus on emerging markets, has opened a new office in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. The firm’s head office is in Moscow.Balchug founder and CEO David Amaryan says: “I am of Armenian heritage and take a strong interest in the economic and capital markets development of my home country. With the new government in place, we think there are strong investment opportunities there that those not familiar with the region might miss, and we also wish to support the development of the investment management industry in the country.”
The new office
