Sidetrade, an Artificial Intelligence platform dedicated to accelerating company revenue and cashflow, has partnered with Hyman Capital to help the firm's clients and private equity contacts to adjust quickly to the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of cashflow generation.

You wouldn’t buy a house without looking around it, or a car without test driving it. Consumer tech such as apps are often free to download. With software being such a vital part of any financial organisation’s infrastructure, Jamie Nascimento, co-founder at alternative asset management platform LemonTree Software, asks why it should be any different. 

PAG, one of the world’s largest Asia-focused investment groups, has chosen Broadridge as a cloud-based portfolio management technology provider. The enhancement will support PAG’s capabilities for its private debt operations.

iCapital Network, which provides financial advisers and their clients with access to private investsment, has added two accomplished leaders with expertise in supporting the global high-net-worth (HNW) investing community to its team.

Early-stage Israeli proptech investor BuiltUp Ventures has invested in Trusstor and StructShare, two Israeli construction tech (contech) startups.

“For too long the best investments have been out of reach, even for the majority of sophisticated investors. Investment technology platforms can democratise access to private investments, helping investors to build more diverse, resilient, and higher performing investment portfolios,” says Kinson Lo, founder of London-based online investment platform Dot Investing. In this op-ed Lo explains how he believes tech can streamline the investment process and why it's particularly important during times like these.

ACA Aponix, part of the ACA Compliance Group (ACA), has launched PortCo Defend, a cybersecurity risk management program and dashboard, designed to help private equity firms assess and centrally monitor security threats to their portfolio companies (PortCos). 

Options, a leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has achieved the prestigious Microsoft Cloud Platform Gold Partner Status. In doing so, Options joins the top 1 per cent of Microsoft partners worldwide. 

Enfusion, a provider of cloud-based investment management software and managed services, has selected Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers to bolster its vendor due diligence process.

One of the few positive effects of the pandemic is that it provides an opportunity to shift some bad habits and build some better ones. According to Jamie Nascimento, co-founder at LemonTree Software – the first low-code development platform for financial services with an alternative asset investment solution – the pandemic has exposed workarounds that many of his clients have in place, as their software didn’t deliver against their needs during lockdown. In this feature he explores the possibility of changing your habits, particularly tech habits, during a time when everything is in flux.