Corporate credit specialist Muzinich & Co has added to its UK private debt team with the recruitment of Grant Davidson (pictured) as Director. Davidson joins the firm from Investec where he was Senior Origination Director for growth and acquisition finance, responsible for the sourcing and execution of deals for UK mid-market businesses with EBITDAs of up to GBP15 million. Davidson has also spent time in the industry as a divisional CFO for a private equity backed company and worked for eight years at Lyceum Capital leading equity investments in the UK lower mid-market. Muzinich Co-Head of UK Private Debt Marc Shirman says: “Our private

Northern Trust has appointed Marco Siero (pictured) as senior sales representative, Luxembourg to spearhead the company’s growth in the region. Assets under administration in Northern Trust’s Luxembourg office have increased by 100 per cent over the past five years. In this newly created role, Siero will be responsible for further accelerating the growth of the client base and expanding the delivery of Northern Trust’s specialist fund servicing capabilities to global investors who look to leverage the benefits of Luxembourg as a fund jurisdiction. Siero joins from RBC Investor Services in Luxembourg where he was managing director client service and solutions

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Lisa A Pollina (pictured), former Vice Chairman for RBC Capital Markets, a division of the Royal Bank of Canada, to its Board of Directors.  Pollina has joined the Board’s Audit Committee, Finance/Capital Committee & Risk Committee.   The Board provides direction and oversight for DTCC in the interests of its diverse, global stakeholders, while promoting safety and stability across the financial markets. It is composed of 20 directors: 12 are representatives of clearing agency participants, four are non-participant directors, two are designated by DTCC's Series A and Series B preferred shareholders,

The London office of global law firm K&L Gates has added Barry Cosgrave as a partner in the firm’s global finance practice. Cosgrave (pictured), who joins K&L Gates from Shearman & Sterling LLP, is the second new partner addition to the firm’s London finance practice in just a month. Cosgrave’s experience includes distressed debt and restructuring, debt capital markets, structured finance, and Islamic finance. He has significant Middle East experience, having also practiced in Dubai for a number of years. “With a focus on distressed debt and the Middle East, my ambitions and experience are very much in line with the strategic direction of K&L

Agile Fund Solutions has added hedge fund industry specialists Greg Gleeson and Andrea Schweikert to the firm’s Southern California team. "Southern California presents a major opportunity for Agile. Greg is a veteran player in the SoCal market and has overseen hedge funds and family offices across all size scales,” says Vincent Calcagno, CEO. "Coupled with Andi's experience serving hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds while at Rothstein Kass it gives Agile the ability to deliver on our mission of enabling managers to scale their business by having them focus on the portfolio while we focus on everything else."  "I'm thrilled

EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s electronic fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) business, has hired Nicole Shumpert (pictured) from TradeWeb, to bolster its BrokerTec Direct team. BrokerTec Direct is a new service which provides relationship-based, disclosed liquidity to the fixed income market. The service leverages the EBS Direct model to provide customers with a new mechanism for trading fixed income. Launched in November 2012, EBS Direct offers disclosed trading to foreign exchange market participants through multiple execution methods such as request for quote (RFQ) and direct streaming for FX spot, swaps and options transactions. Having successfully expanded EBS BrokerTec’s addressable market to

Alternative investment firm SkyBridge Capital has opened an office in London which will serve as its headquarters on behalf of its business interests in the UK, Continental Europe and the Middle East. Hesham Alquraini, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of industry experience in financial markets and alternative asset management, has joined the firm as managing director and will lead the office.   He joins SkyBridge having served at the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO) and the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).   "The continued expansion of our global footprint remains one of our most important strategic objectives," says Ray

ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) has appointed Dame DeAnne Julius, a founding member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, as a director. The appointment is effective immediately.   Julius’ appointment has been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and she joins the following directors on the board of IBA: André Villeneuve, chairman, IBA; Mary John Miller, chairperson of the IBA Nominating Committee; Rod Paris, chief investment officer, Standard Life Investments; Michel Prada, chairperson of the IBA Audit and Risk Committee; David Goone, chief strategy officer, Intercontinental Exchange; and Finbarr Hutcheson, president, IBA.   “I am delighted

FlexTrade Systems, a specialist in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has appointed Shane Remolina (pictured) as director of sell-side OMS technologies for North America. Based in the company’s headquarters in New York, Remolina will head sales and business development for FlexTrade’s sell-side OMS solutions.   According to Remolina, trading technology for the sell-side is ripe for disruption via innovation.   “Many firms are faced with intensified cost pressures due to operations, regulations and technology, and must differentiate themselves in order to increase market share,” he says. “FlexTrade is ideally positioned to provide that differentiation. This is accomplished in two ways. First and