Northern Trust has brought in Arti Sharma from Mercer to lead its operations in Canada, based in Toronto.

As a principal and head of business development at Mercer, Sharma was responsible for the growth and development of the custody practice.

Prior to that, she was senior vice president at Thomas Murray North America, before which she worked at CIBC Mellon in executive management and sales positions.

In other recent news, last week Matthew Peron was named managing director of global equity at Northern Trust Asset Management - a newly-created role that brings together active and index equity teams.