Strait Fund Services (STRAIT) has strengthened its compliance offering for hedge fund and private equity clients with the appointment of Michael Barakat.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
The increasing pressures on private equity firms to follow compliance rules and maintain transparency, coupled with the plethora of online systems to manage several communication avenues and priorities both internally and externally, are presenting some very real challenges for financial organisations today.
With the US presidential election campaign rapidly gathering pace, the issue of political contributions – and the potential for conflicts of interest – has become a major issue on fund managers’ compliance radars.
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has launched a new payment and fraud risk assessment (PFRA) offering, which is designed to help firms identify and remediate vulnerabilities within payment flows in order to reduce the risk of costly fraud issues. The service is overseen by the ACA Aponix division’s senior principal consultant Kamlesh
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has appointed Shvetank Shah as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Shvetank previously worked at Gartner where he held many leadership roles including Senior Vice President of its Technology & Service Provider practice. Shah will be based in ACA’s Silver
Hedge fund and private equity investors to focus 2020 due diligence efforts on alternative data compliance, says Corgentum survey.The vast majority (83 per cent) of hedge fund and private equity investors intend to continue increasing the resources they allocate to analysing compliance procedures surrounding alternative investment managers use of third-party
Constellation Advisers: Best Regulatory & Compliance Adviser – An innovative a client service approach is being introduced to reduce the direct service costs by the manager and help private equity funds at all stages of growth meet demand for the expanding needs of their business. Constellation Advisers is currently rolling out
By Andrew Frost (pictured), Lawson Conner, & Justin Partington, IQ-EQ – Enhanced due diligence, including Know Your Customer (KYC), when completing complex acquisitions of businesses or assets is not only a basic expectation under current Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, but also makes commercial sense for all parties involved. Minimising your exposure to financial risk
A survey conducted on preparation for the FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime, (SM&CR) has revealed that most firms have significant work to do, as they prepare for its extension to all authorised firms on 9 December. From a pool of over 70 respondents, including asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms,
Vistra, a global trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, has launched its Economic Substance Services and Solutions, starting with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Economic Substance Classification Questionnaire designed to help clients determine the classification of their BVI company as it applies to the substance legislation. Developed by Vistra’s
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