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Todd Moyer, Confluence

RegTech to trigger asset management back office transformation in 2017

Confluence predicts that the rise of regulatory technology (RegTech) in 2017 will trigger a transformation of the asset management back office, with improved data management and technology solutions delivering operating model improvements through automation. A subset of FinTech, RegTech consists of technologies proven to facilitate the delivery of regulatory re­quirements

100WHF Amanda Pullinger

100 Women in Hedge Funds rebrands as 100 Women in Finance

100 Women in Hedge Funds has launched a new brand and formally changed its name to 100 Women in Finance. The organisation says the change reflects its growth over the past 15 years from a small group of women working in the hedge fund industry in New York to a

Survey

Cybersecurity a key priority for PE firms’ IT spend

Increased protection against growing cybersecurity threats will be a top driver impact private equity firms’ IT spend in the next 12 months, according to a survey by Eze Castle Integration. The 2016 Private Equity CTO Survey, conducted in partnership with IDG Research, polled 101 senior-level executives.   It found other

Abraaj implements RAVN’s cognitive search solution

The Abraaj Group has implemented RAVN Connect Enterprise, a cognitive search platform which is designed to transform the way users locate, leverage and collaborate on expertise across networks. RAVN Connect Enterprise, built upon the AI platform RAVN Applied Cognitive Engine (RAVN ACE), takes enterprise search, knowledge management and unstructured data

Donnacha Loughrey, Crossroads Capital Management

Crossroads Capital Management and AlphaDesk form partnership

Irish independent investment management service provider Crossroads Capital Management (CCM) has licensed AlphaDesk, the cloud-based software provider to hedge funds and other investment managers. In partnership with AlphaDesk, CCM enables both discretionary and non-discretionary investment managers to access a fully integrated portfolio management and order management system for trading, compliance

Eze Software simplifies private equity accounting

Eze Software Group has rolled out a series of enhancements to its back-office operations workflows for private equity funds, simplifying a series of complex tasks to a single click. Eze Investor Accounting (formerly known as Penny-It-Works) handles partnership and investor accounting for some of the largest hedge funds and their

Watson Wheatley implements iRecs reconciliation at P2P lender Thincats

Watson Wheatley Financial Systems (WWFS) has implemented the iRecs reconciliation solution at online peer-to-peer SME business loan specialists ThinCats. The new deal for WWFS marks the first time the iRecs platform has been used in a peer-to-peer lending environment.   Guy Whitaker, client money operations manager at ThinCats, says: “iRecs

Philip Tham, Citco

Citco launches enhanced risk and transparency offering

Citco has launched an enhanced version of its risk and transparency offering which will enable clients to monitor and assess risk using flexible, customisable tools. The technology is available to Citco clients and other alternative investment firms.   Citco’s suite of risk management tools enables users to access, monitor, analyse,

Viktor Tadijanovic, Abacus

Security and communications enhancements added to AbacusFLEX Private Cloud

Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative investment funds, has added security and communications enhancements to its AbacusFlex Private Cloud platform. “As our client base of alternative investment firms continues to grow in the US, UK and Europe, Abacus is ensuring that our technology and services

Centaur’s private equity service secures major US client

Centaur’s newly-launched enhanced private equity service has won a major contract with a USD20 billion multi-strategy, multi-jurisdictional US headquartered private equity group. The win came about after a detailed Request for Proposal (RFP) process, highlighting three principal requirements: service consistency that the client was not receiving from their previous administrators,

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