Sector developments and company hires

CRE data initiative launched
Moody's Analytics has formed a new partnership with The Business School (formerly Cass) at City, University of London, to build a database of loan-level commercial real estate information covering the UK and Europe. The initiative will extend The Business School's UK CRE lending survey under the Moody’s Analytics Data Alliance framework. By participating in this initiative, lenders and other market participants will benefit from access to aggregate industry data, as well as robust analytics for benchmarking. 

Co-leading the initiative is Nicole Lux, senior research fellow at The Business School. Lux conducts the UK CRE lending survey, which has been gathering data from more than 100 participant firms for over 20 years to produce a comprehensive record of CRE lending. She will work with industry participants to gather the loan-level information on behalf of the City-Moody’s Analytics initiative in the UK.

ILS moves
Arch Reinsurance has named Brian Lynch senior operations advisor, ILS and retrocessions, based in Bermuda. He was previously vp, ILS at Aon, where he led teams located both locally and internationally to provide outsourced management services to large ILS-backed commercial entities. Before that, he worked at HSBC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management and EY.

Twelve Capital has appointed Tony Maximchuk as a non-executive director for Twelve Capital (UK), based in London. Maximchuk was previously a business development executive at Securis Investment Partners and before that worked at Conning Asset Management and Credit Lyonnais.