By Ras Sipko, KOGER – For the past four years, alternative fund managers with US investors have been coming to terms with the far-reaching effects of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act or FATCA. Some 60-plus countries have signed up to cooperate with the IRS in order to enforce FATCA and
There are a number of encouraging developments in Ireland that would, on the surface, appear to place it on a strong footing to further enhance its reputation as Europe's leading onshore alternative funds jurisdiction. If one looks at fund growth, through October 2016 (the most recent figures at the time
ML Capital, one of Ireland's leading management company groups, has grown to exceed EUR3 billion of AUM over the last 12 months. The growth trajectory over recent years has enabled ML Capital to evolve from being a leading UCITS platform operator to being more of a fund solutions provider to
The Irish Government is keen to embrace the FinTech revolution as is evidenced by its IFS2020 strategy for International Financial Services, which aims to create 10,000 new jobs in the IFS sector by 2020. One particular area of innovation underway in Ireland is the emergence of regulatory technology or ‘RegTech’
Alternative fund managers have had a myriad of regulatory change to contend with over recent years. In the early stages, many chose to take on the reporting burden themselves. This was very much a learning curve. However, as the complexity of regulatory compliance has increased, fund managers have looked to
Dublin's International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) employs over 38,000 people and is home to some of the world's leading financial institutions; industry stalwarts such as Merrill Lynch, ABN Amro, JP Morgan. But in recent years, this area of Dublin has ushered in a slew of technology companies, many of them
CIP Capital has formed Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), a provider of technology-enabled regulatory and compliance solutions to the financial services industry. The CSS platform was created through CIP Capital’s investments in three businesses in the governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) market – Advise Technologies, Ascendant Compliance Management and
Confluence has signed licenses with the first four clients for the firm’s Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting platform to manage end-to-end filing processes for the new regulatory reporting requirements imposed by the SEC Investment Company Reporting Modernisation rules. Following the announcement of the final rules in October of 2016, Confluence has
ACA Technology Solutions, a provider of investment management and regulatory technology solutions, has released ComplianceAlpha, a cloud-based platform designed to assist chief compliance officers with managing their compliance programme tasks and activities. ComplianceAlpha is designed to help compliance teams automate processes and manage their day-to-day activities. A secure cloud-based
Royal London Asset Management has selected the Confluence’s Unity NXT AIFMD Annex IV transparency reporting solution to support the company’s growing alternative investment fund business. The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) regulation covers hedge funds, private equity, real estate and other Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) in the European
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