Custom House Global Fund Services, a provider of financial services to the alternative investment sector, has opened a New York office and expanded its business development team. Custom House now has seven global locations, over USD40bn of assets under administration and 200 staff. Joining Custom House in New York is

HSBC Securities Services (HSS) has made key appointments in sales for North America and Europe. Kevin Skorzewski joins as head of sales for North America. In this new role, Skorzewski will be responsible for building out HSBC’s securities services franchise in the region and will focus on serving the complex

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Florence Fontan as head of the asset manager client segment.   Fontan (pictured) has overall responsibility for strategy, business development, products and services to the custodian bank’s asset manager clients and prospects.   Fontan reports to Charley Cock, head of client development, and Philippe

BNY Mellon has appointed Eamon Burns as its new regional head of private equity accounting for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) within the company’s asset servicing business.   Burns will report to Caoimhghin O’Donnell, managing director, head of AIS (alternative investment services) fund accounting – EMEA, and will be

Altius Associates has appointed Duncan Cox as a special advisor with respect to the firm’s infrastructure business.    Cox will be based in the US but will support the business globally.   Jay Yoder, Altius head of real assets, says: “We are very pleased to have secured Duncan’s services given

Private equity firm Egis Capital Partners has appointed Bill Polk as a managing partner.    Polk, who joins from CapitalOne Bank, has more than 25 years of debt and equity investment experience and has been involved in more than USD6bn of middle-market security financing transactions. He will be responsible for

Confie Seguros, a portfolio company of private equity firm ABRY Partners, has appointed Darrin Silvera as chief revenue officer.   The national insurance broker, focused on the non-standard auto insurance needs of the Hispanic consumer, created the new role to support the company’s rapid growth and continued plans for expansion.

Douglas Shulman and Scott Kelly have joined the New York office of Kinetic Partners.   Shulman and Kelly have joined as director and associate director respectively, within the regulatory compliance practice.   In their respective roles, Shulman will work alongside Kinetic Partners’ compliance team and provide regulatory compliance services to

KPMG has hired three industry veterans to augment its rapidly growing alternative investments (AI) team, focusing on hedge funds, private equity firms and real estate funds.   Camille Asaro, Jay Freedman and Linda Grogan have recently joined KPMG’s AI team in New York.   Asaro has been hired as an