Katie Sims has been appointed as co-portfolio manager of the Willis Towers Watson Partners Fund.

Pico, a provider of technology services for the global financial markets community, has appointed Brian Pomraning as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).  

Scottish fintech and regtech company, AutoRek, a software provider to global financial services firms has appointed Kenny Bain as Chief Financial Officer.

Alpha Vee Investment Solutions Indexes has launched seven direct index strategies on the C8 Technologies platform. 

CoinFLEX, first physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange, has adopted digital asset infrastructure provider Copper’s ClearLoop framework.

SSE Renewables and Equinor, the joint venture partners co-developing the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea, have signed 15-year offtake Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for the first two phases of the world’s largest offshore wind farm.

The ICON blockchain network, one of the world’s largest decentralised networks, has launched ICONFi, a new cryptocurrency staking-and-earn service built for beginners. 

K3 Advisory, a specialist independent bulk annuity and consolidator advisory business, has completed a GBP74 million pensioner buy-in for the UK pension scheme of a US-listed engineering business, its largest transaction to date and completed entirely since the start of the pandemic. 

Institutional investors allocated USD220.5 billion to fixed income strategies in the third quarter of 2020, with most of this going toward US bond managers, as rising coronavirus cases and the run-up to the US election kept appetites for risk low.

SYZ Asset Management (AM), the institutional asset management arm of the SYZ Group, has been ranked in the top ten ESG asset managers in Switzerland by the Hirschel & Kramer Responsible Investment Brand Index (RIBI TM) 2020.