Napier Park Global Capital (Napier Park), an alternative asset management platform with more than USD14 billion in assets under management offering a diversified product mix of hedge funds, private investments, CLOs and structured credit to large, sophisticated institutional investors, has named Nadja Marcoz as a Partner of the firm. Marcoz is based in Napier Park’s New York office. “Nadja is a true culture carrier at Napier Park and we could not be more enthusiastic to call her a Partner,” said Jim O’Brien, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Napier Park. “Her tireless work ethic, ability to continuously adapt and long-standing

BMLL Technologies, a data engineering and analytics firm, has appointed Paul Humphrey as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). A senior executive with decades of experience in leading positions across the brokerage, banking, data and exchange world, Humphrey joins BMLL Technologies to drive the scale up of the business and realise the firm’s mission to democratise access to granular market data and analytical products at speed and scale. In 2019 Humphrey established his own consultancy business, advising financial institutions, boards and fintech firms on their corporate and growth strategies. Prior to that he was the Global Head of FICC for Euronext NV and

Man Group, a global active investment management firm, has appointed Robert Furdak as Chief Investment Officer for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), a newly-created role to further bolster the firm’s broader commitment to responsible investment (RI). Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Furdak will report to Sandy Rattray, Chief Investment Officer of Man Group.   Furdak will lead the firm’s RI initiatives across Man Group’s five specialist investment engines, ensuring collaboration across research efforts and investment solutions. His responsibilities will also include working with external asset owners to help them develop and analyse ESG policy and implement solutions, advancing Man Group’s stewardship and

Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Mihai Florian in a newly created role as Senior Portfolio Manager, to further develop the firm’s emerging market debt (EM) illiquid corporate credit strategies.Based in London, Mihai reports to Polina Kurdyavko, Head of Emerging Markets and will be responsible for developing BlueBay’s capabilities in illiquid emerging market corporate credit through co-investment opportunities and new closed-ended investment strategies.   The team believes there is an increasing opportunity to invest in EM illiquid assets, driven by ongoing issuance of loans and other illiquid instruments in relatively unpenetrated and inefficient markets at a

GSK Stockmann has added to its investment funds practice in Luxembourg with the hiring of Dr Marcel Bartnik as local partner, effective January 2020.Bartnik has extensive experience in the Luxembourg investment fund industry. He has been working in Luxembourg for close to 15 years, advising institutional clients, private equity firms, investment houses and high-net-worth individuals across the corporate, real estate, private equity and finance sectors both in Luxembourg and internationally. His main areas of expertise include fund formation and structuring advice for alternative investment funds (AIF) as well as traditional retail (UCITS) funds, including AIFMs and management companies. In addition, he

Equity Trustees Fund Services has made three new appointments in its London and Dublin offices.“The Fund Services division of our business has built a market leading proposition over two decades in independent fund governance,” says Harvey Kalman, Head of Global Fund Services at Equity Trustees. “It’s critical in maintaining our reputation for independent expertise and client service to appoint experienced members of staff that can continue to allow us to provide a market leading service to our clients and the investors in the funds for which we are responsible.” The new staff will report to Kevin Lavery, CEO (Ireland) and

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Tim Smollen as Global Head of Global Securities Lending Solutions. Smollen will be based in New York and will be joined by eight additional hires who will support the growth and development of MUFG’s securities lending franchise.   “Bringing Tim on-board to lead our expanding team reinforces our commitment to further growing this business and becoming one of the globally recognised programs in this space”   The group led by Smollen will focus on providing the highest level of client service, innovation and thought leadership by

London-based CloudMargin, the creator of a cloud-native collateral and margin management solution, has promoted Armando Hernandez to the newly established role of Executive Director, Head of North America.A 25-year veteran of the investment banking, derivatives and fintech industries, Hernandez joined CloudMargin in September 2018 as Director of New Business Development for North America. In the new role reporting to CEO Stuart Connolly, he takes responsibility for the entire North American operating unit, including sales, relationship management, partnerships and client onboarding.   Connolly says: “In this key new position, Armando will join the executive leadership team, heading up the effort to

Refinitiv, a provider of financial markets data and infrastructure, has appointed Andrea Remyn Stone as Chief Customer Proposition Officer and member of the Executive Leadership team. Remyn Stone  will report to the CEO of Refinitiv, David Craig.