Fidelity Investments, the world's largest investment management organisation has appointed Asgeir Thordarson as Director, Head of the Nordic Institutional Business reporting to Peter Lord, Managing Director of Fidelity's EMEA Institutional business. Asgeir joins Fidelity Investments from McKinsey & Company in
State Street has named Peter Baker to head its London based pension and collective investment servicing business. He will report to Jeff Conway, head of State Street's investor services business in United Kingdom, northern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Baker
Capco has appointed Sally Hinds as Managing Principal. Capco says Hinds will play a key role in building its UK and European presence in the reference data and market data environments and bolstering Capco's Global Index Monitor (GIM) offering and
Clearstream has hired two new executives to lead its business development activities. One is Stefan Lepp of the custody group at Dresdner, which was sold last year to Deutsche Bank. Lepp has joined Clearstream as Head of Origination. At Dresdner
BISYS has appointed Susan A. Hoyle as vice president of business development for its Private Equity Services division. Hoyle, who has previously worked at international accounting firms and corporations, will oversee BISYS's new office in San Francisco and lead efforts
Mutuakl fund research and fund of funds manager Forsyth Partners has appointed three new International Sales Directors. Geoffrey Tait is joining as Sales Director Third Party Relationships. The position will be based in Jersey. Tait is a sales director with
State Street has enlarged its transition management team by appointing Toby Goold and Paul McGee to State Street Global Markets' asset owner group. State Street Global Markets (SSGM) is the investment research and trading arm of State Street. Goold will
One in two (49 per cent) financial services organisations plan to recruit for growth in Q3 this year, the highest proportion in two years, and a figure up 13 percentage points on the previous quarter. A further 43 per cent
Michael LaBranche, chairman, CEO, and president of LaBranche & Co. Inc., has been appointed to the board of directors of the Securities Industry Association. LaBranche replaces Myles Gillespie of Fleet Specialist, who resigned. "Mike's experience both working as a specialist
Citisoft has appointed Valerie Nott to work with its management team on new business development and client relationship management. Prior to joining Citisoft, Nott was the Account Director at COR STPS and Group Business Director at 110 (One Ten) where