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Matthias Knab, Opalesque

Fasanara Capital has opened its first office in the United States, taking space at Rockefeller Center, 1230 Avenue of the Americas in New York, and has appointed Cameron Arrington, a 21-year Goldman Sachs veteran, as Head of U.S. Capital Formation. The technology-driven global asset manager announced both moves on 17 June 2026, only days after Opalesque sat down with the firm at SuperReturn International in Berlin for our "Go-To Managers" series.

The timing is fitting. When we spoke with Paolo Viale, CAIA, the firm's managing director and head of business development, the conversation was about the machine, not the distribution: the world's largest network of fintech lending platforms, a flagship book of roughly 700,000 short-duration positions, a risk discipline that, in his words, "starts at the design stage," the newly launched Ferrari-backed lending facility, and a broader shift among allocators away from valuation-based investing toward cash-flow-based investing. The New York office and the Arrington hire are the other half of that story - the apparatus to carry it into the world's largest pool of institutional capital.

A hub for U.S. engagement

Fasanara, founded by Francesco Filia in 2011 and marking its 15th anniversary this year, describes the New York office as a milestone in its continued international growth, deepening its presence in the world's largest capital market and supporting the development of a global platform that spans credit, systematic strategies and alternative markets. The office is intended to serve as a hub for U.S. investor engagement and strategic partnerships across the firm's credit, quantitative and alternative platforms.

That is a logical next step for a manager whose edge, as Viale laid it out at SuperReturn, rests on running a platform of platforms - 141 fintech lenders financing small and medium enterprises across 60 countries, fed into portfolios of hundreds of thousands of line items and run with a hedge fund's risk mindset. Roughly 60% of those exposures sit across Europe and the U.S.; the case Fasanara is now making is that the U.S. side of that book deserves a U.S. team standing behind it.

The Arrington hire

Based in New York, Arrington will lead the firm's U.S. capital formation efforts, expanding relationships with institutional investors, consultants, wealth platforms, banks, insurers, family offices and strategic investment partners across North America. He joins from Goldman Sachs, where he spent more than 21 years and most recently served as Head of U.S. Leveraged Loan Sales. His experience spans leveraged loans, high yield, private credit, investment grade and distressed credit, with a focus on connecting institutional investors with differentiated opportunities across the credit spectrum. Before Goldman Sachs, he worked as a consultant at Accenture.

It is a credit-distribution profile that maps cleanly onto Fasanara's pitch. Viale framed the firm not as a 20%-return, 20%-volatility shop but as a provider of low-beta, uncorrelated, high-single-digit unlevered returns - the kind of stable, cash-flow-backed exposure that a leveraged-loan and private-credit audience tends to understand quickly. Arrington's relationships with CLO managers, insurers, private credit firms, asset managers and banks are precisely the channels through which that message travels.

On his appointment, Arrington said: "I am delighted to be joining Fasanara at such an exciting stage in the firm's international growth. The opening of the New York office reflects Fasanara's long-term commitment to the U.S. market, and I look forward to working with investors and partners across North America as the firm continues to expand its global presence."

Filia, Founder and CEO, added: "The opening of our New York office is an important step in Fasanara's continued international development and reflects our long-term commitment to the U.S. market. Cameron brings more than two decades of experience across leveraged finance and institutional credit markets, with deep relationships spanning CLO managers, insurers, private credit firms, asset managers and banks. His understanding of the market, combined with his experience in credit distribution and investor engagement, will be highly valuable as we continue to deepen our relationships across North America and support the next phase of Fasanara's growth."

Part of a wider build-out

The U.S. opening comes shortly after the reveal of Fasanara's new Italy office and follows a run of senior appointments across the firm's global platform. They include Anuraj Dua, who was recently brought in to lead the Systematic Macro and Relative Value cluster of pods within Fasanara's multi-strategy fund platform, and Marieke de Roo, who joined at the start of June as Managing Director, Capital Formation, Europe. Taken together, the hires point to a firm adding investment and capital formation talent in step with the breadth and geographic reach of its investment ecosystem.

For U.S. allocators, the move closes a gap Viale himself flagged in Berlin. His biggest challenge, he said, was not performance - Fasanara has not had a down month in 12 years in its flagship credit strategy - but the "educational journey" of helping investors weigh semi-liquid, diversified alternative credit against more traditional asset-allocation models, at a moment when the largest institutions are dismantling their old silos in favor of a total-portfolio approach. A New York office and a senior credit-distribution lead are how that conversation happens in person, in the market that matters most for it.