Attend almost any financial industry event today and the chances are a panel discussion will refer to blockchain and the transformation opportunities it could afford the industry. It has become a buzzword, a term that one has to pretend to understand and nod sagely whenever it comes up in conversation.
Fintech company Koger has added new functionality to its Pentas platform for private equity firms which automate the distribution waterfall. Pentas streamlines and automates the administration of PE funds and is designed for all fund structures. “The calculation and execution involved with the distribution waterfall present some of the most complex
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – 2017 is as good a time as any to be starting a new alternative investment firm, certainly better than it would have been a decade ago, but there are some key areas of focus that start-ups should be on top of. Here are some
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to see compliance and responsibility as a barrier to success, when
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – The global financial crisis and subsequent recession happened almost a decade ago, but their legacy goes on and on, with more stringent regulations and bigger fines every year. The financial services sector has to comply, whilst also trying to
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – In RightScale’s 2017 State of the Cloud Report, of 1002 respondents from companies of all sizes, primarily located in the US, UK and Europe, 95 per cent of respondents were using the cloud in some way during 2017. Of
BlackRock is to acquire Cachematrix, a provider of financial technology which simplifies the cash management process for banks and their corporate clients in an open-architecture platform. Cachematrix supports approximately USD200 billion in client assets through relationships with many of the world’s largest banks and asset managers. Cachematrix enables financial
Waymark Tech, a provider of regulatory intelligence software, has launched a new AI-powered tool that automatically identifies regulatory crossovers and conflicts between incoming regulations, such as MiFID II, GDPR, and PRIIPS. Accessible immediately from within Waymark’s Wayfinder product, the real-time tool identifies which regulations apply to a company and then
Eze Castle Integration has launched the Eze Hybrid Cloud, a complete multi-cloud solution combining the Eze Private Cloud with Microsoft Cloud services to deliver a secure and flexible, fully managed environment. The Eze Hybrid Cloud innovation was born of Eze Castle Integration’s years of private cloud experience, deep Microsoft partnership
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, has enhanced its Abacus Client Portal, which gives asset managers greater control of and transparency into their AbacusFLEX cloud services. The enhancements include two new modules giving unprecedented transparency into managed services provided by Abacus; real-time, on-demand
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