RFA has come a long way since it first opened for business in 1989. Now the firm, which has over 800 clients, is one of the biggest cloud providers to the alternative investment sector, offering state-of-the-art cybersecurity services and fully managed IT and CTO consultancy services.

The ability to predict and shape the long term success of global takeovers is often seen as the ‘holy grail’ for CEOs, investors and their advisors, and a new report from chartered accountancy body ICAEW and Drooms reveals that some key decision making may soon be taken away from humans and guided instead by the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in many stages of a deal process.

Northern Trust is to transfer its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for private equity (PE) asset servicing to Broadridge, in whatv he companies says is a significant step towards delivering an industry-wide PE blockchain solution.

Building on strong private capital vendor relationships developed through numerous successful implementation projects, Holland Mountain will be formalising vendor implementation partnerships. 

An asset manager’s decision to change their operating model and outsource their middle office to a service provider should not be made in haste. From building internal consensus to carefully designing an evaluation process, selecting the best fit for an outsourcing partner is a significant investment. 

The Citco Group of Companies, (Citco), a provider of asset servicing solutions to the global alternative investment industry, is partnering with S3 Partners, to integrate the data analytics firm’s BLACKLIGHT Treasury Management solution into its offering.

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Drooms, a provider of virtual data rooms in Europe, and Oodrive, a European specialist in sensitive data management, have formed a strategic partnership and will market their joint solution in their respective markets: France and French-speaking territories for Oodrive, and Germany and German-speaking territories for Drooms. 

Accusource, a provider of  middle- and back-office operational services, has teamed with Canoe Intelligence, in a bid to bring ‘efficiency, speed and increased accuracy’ to the investment management industry.

The amount of data is growing exponentially. According to IDC, there were 16.3 zettabytes of information generated in 2017 alone. In simple terms, if every piece of data were a penny, it would cover the earth’s surface five times over.