For newly emerging investment firms or long-standing established ones, the choice to adopt a cloud-based architecture is becoming an easy one. Few firms have a business model where an in-house Comm. Room makes strategic or economic sense. And even for those who have the means to do so, managing and
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to private equity firms in Europe, is providing administration services to HgCapital and has supported its recent close of the HgCapital 8 Fund and, separately, a first and final close on The Mercury 2 Fund. Both closing are at their respective hard capitalisations raising
Private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services has increased its assets under administration to in excess of USD150 billion. Since its founding in 2009, Gen II has grown to become the industry's largest independent firm focused on private equity fund administration. Norman Leben, managing principal of Gen II,
CheckRecipient, a machine learning start-up that aims to end the problem of misaddressed emails, has raised USD2.7 million in a round co-led by Accel and LocalGlobe, with the participation of Winton Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners and Crane. Started in 2013 by three engineering graduates from Imperial College, CheckRecipient has developed
Fintech company Koger has deployed its flagship NTAS platform for fund administration and compliance in the cloud. NTAS is a share registry system that manages fund tracking, reporting and fee calculation. More than 8,000 funds with USD2 trillion in assets are administered through NTAS, which is used by many
Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services, has opened its second office in Ireland in Cork, creating 60 new jobs. Alter Domus was established in Ireland in 2011 and in 2014 the firm acquired O'Donovan Stewart Corporate Services. The team was set up in Dublin to provide the
By Kulvinder Gill – The technology treadmill is a tough place to be these days. Technology refresh cycles last only a mere three years, forcing firms to replace their infrastructures and make costly software and hardware upgrades on a too-frequent basis. And with hedge fund budgets tighter than ever,
Solium Capital, a provider of software-as-a-service for equity administration, financial reporting and compliance, has entered into a preferred partnership with Nasdaq Private Market. Under the terms of the related agreements, Solium will enable NPM customers to manage their cap tables and share plans through Solium’s Shareworks platform, as well as access Nasdaq Private Market’s secondary liquidity technology. “With the proliferation of companies choosing to remain
Increasing regulatory pressures and technology demands are putting more pressure on private equity firms to outsource their administration services. Traditionally, private equity funds have been self-administered, but this has begun to change in recent years. According to Preqin, the number of private equity and real estate funds availing of
Social engineering schemes continue to grow in their sophistication, and phishing campaigns, in particular, are causing concern as they make their way to employee inboxes. These fraudulent email campaigns appear legitimate and take advantage of employees who are often too busy or simply unprepared to identify a scam (disclaimer: phishing
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