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4sight Financial Software, a provider of software and consultancy to the securities finance and collateral management markets, has hired Raymond Blokland as a senior consultant.
Prior to joining 4sight, Blokland was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and has previously worked as global head of prime brokerage trading at Fortis Bank. He has over 20 years of financial markets experience.
Blokland will provide consultancy for 4sight clients and prospects in the securities finance, collateral management and synthetic prime brokerage business areas.
“Raymond has many years of experience in the industry on both the buy and
Miranda Lansdowne has been appointed managing director of the JTC Luxembourg office.
Lansdowne recently relocated from Jersey to Luxembourg to head up the JTC office in Europe’s largest fund domicile.
Lansdowne has worked at JTC Group since 2007 as a group director of fund services overseeing the management of the fund administration teams in Guernsey, Jersey, Luxembourg and the UK.
Further to her JTC responsibilities, she supervises the provision of services to several key private equity fund clients and holds a number of directorships in the funds sector.
Lansdowne will continue with her group responsibilities in addition
Clearstream is opening its new office in Cork, Ireland this week, following the company’s acquisition of Citco’s hedge fund sub-custody business for financial institutions in April 2014.
The business transition took place on 5 October 2014 with the integration of 300 former employees of Citco Global Securities Services (CGSS) Ltd in Cork into Clearstream’s Investment Fund Services division. The ownership of the Citco IT systems and software for hedge fund processing has also been transferred to Clearstream.
The new Cork-based entity, Clearstream Global Securities Services Ltd, is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Clearstream International SA in Luxembourg and
Investment advisory firm bfinance has appointed Justin Preston as a senior associate for equities research with the firm’s public markets research team in London.
Preston previously worked for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) as an investment manager for four years.
He was most recently UK head of manager research & selection at Buck Global Investment Advisors.
Chris Jones, managing director, head of public markets & alternatives at bfinance, says: "Justin's background as a Head of Research within an investment consultancy is complemented by his experience of actually managing portfolios on a day-to-day basis for a major institutional
La Française has appointed Pierre Schoeffler as senior global asset allocation advisor, a role that will cover all asset classes managed by the group.
Xavier Lépine, chairman of the board of La Française, says: "Pierre's experience, advice and quantitative tools will help reinforce our strategic overview in terms of allocation through a quantitative approach to the various asset classes.
“Our strength lies in the diversity and originality of our solutions and approaches, and our ambition is to optimise their combination by drawing on Pierre's vision as a portfolio strategist. In the current low rate environment, our aim is to
Five Continents Financial Limited, a Cayman Islands-based asset management and corporate services company, has launched its governance services offering, which will be headed by former Deloitte partner Glen Wigney.
Wigney has over 30 years of experience with Deloitte in Canada, Cayman, and most recently, the US.
“Fund investors and investment managers are demanding enhanced fund governance with independent professional judgment applied in a business-like manner,” he says. “I believe that when my experience is combined with the asset management, corporate and legal expertise of the founding partners of Five Continents, our offering is differentiated in the marketplace and is
Maxim Group, an investment banking, securities and wealth management firm, has appointed Gregory Simons as a managing director and head of electronic trading.
Simons brings over two decades of institutional sales and trading experience in both high touch execution and the sales and implementation of electronic order management systems.
He spent a decade at the Instinet Corporation, ultimately becoming a senior vice president responsible for trading US equities as well as servicing US based hedge funds, mutual funds, RIAs, government agencies and insurance companies on the various electronic offerings.
Simons later joined Direct Access Partners as president, head
Carmignac Group has appointed Obe Ejikeme as a quantitative equity analyst in the firm’s fund management team.
Ejikeme spent seven years as a research analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was head of European equity and quantitative strategy.
Previously, he spent four years at FactSet Research Systems where he was a senior consultant covering sell-side quant research firms.
Ejikeme is based in London and works in the cross asset team headed by Frédéric Leroux.
Finisterre Capital, the absolute return emerging market specialist, has appointed Christopher Buck as head of credit research.
The hire comes as part of further strengthening of Finisterre’s investment team, in response to the strong growth of both the Finisterre Credit Fund’s and the firm’s overall assets under management.
Buck was most recently at Barclays Capital where he was the head of LatAm corporate credit research, managing a team covering investment grade, high yield and distressed bonds in the region.
In May, Bartosz Pawlowski joined Finisterre from BNP Paribas where he was previously the global head of emerging
Confluence, a provider of data-driven solutions to optimise asset management operations, efficiency and control, has appointed Irfan Salim to its board of directors.
Salim brings with him more than 30 years of experience leading fast growing business software companies.
Salim most recently served as president and CEO of MarkMonitor, a leader in the enterprise brand protection space, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2012.
Prior to MarkMonitor, he was the president and chief operating officer of Zone Labs, an internet security company, where he led its growth strategy and ensuing sale to Check Point Technologies in 2004.
