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The Governments of Luxembourg and Cote d’Ivoire will invest a total of EUR10 million into Bamboo Capital Partners’s BLOC Smart Africa, a technology impact fund with a target of EUR100 million.
The move follows Cote d’Ivoire’s previous intention to commit EUR5 million to the fund, announced at the UN’s High-Level Political Forum in July last year.
The fund will invest in high-growth potential start-ups to scale up across the continent, and is part of the Smart Africa Alliance, a pan-African initiative to accelerate sustainable socioeconomic development by investing in underserved African communities.
The organisation helps funds with fundraising efforts, by
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM), the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), and Liquefy, a Hong-Kong based tokenisation platform, have released a new research paper that provides key insights into the benefits and challenges inherent in bringing a tokenisation approach to a wide range of alternative asset classes.
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CEPRES, a provider of investment decision solutions for private markets, and KOP Consultancy, an adviser to Legal, Fiduciary, Trust, Funds, Wealth Management businesses, have joined forces to collaborate on projects for fund services providers in private capital markets in the UK mainland and offshore markets.
With service providers such as fund administrators, custodians or asset servicers looking to cater to their clients’ increasing desire for information to support better investment decision-making and to manage their risk more effectively, CEPRES delivers solutions to solve this big data and investment analytics challenge for their clients. In turn, service providers will be better
By Phil Spratt, co-founder of digital intelligence service Deltabase – With the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic suppressing some sectors, the attention of the private equity industry is now even more acutely focused on assets in the resilient SaaS technology sector and on firms that have successfully managed to ‘pivot’ towards digitalising their propositions and underlying business model.
As the hedge fund industry continues to grow and mature, managers are considering options beyond the traditional hedge fund structure. To this end, the managers and their service providers must be flexible and nimble to create custom solutions for the benefit of all parties involved.
“We’re seeing many different fund vehicles come to market and as a service provider, you need to be able to adjust your service offering and your approach to match those changes,” comments Leanne Golding (pictured), Director of HTC Fiduciary Services (Harbou”) in the Cayman Islands.
Expanding into new areas can be challenging. One of the areas where
The number of private funds being established in the Cayman Islands has continued to rise. This sector proved to be resilient and flexible as it swiftly adapted to a new regulatory regime and turned the additional oversight into an advantage.
“The growth of private funds is a function of the Cayman Islands’ well-respected legislative and regulatory framework, tax neutral status and local knowledge base,” outlines Richard Gordon, managing director – Cayman, Ocorian. “In addition, the enhanced private funds regulatory regime seems to be having a positive effect. It is providing investors with greater comfort by implementing supervisory oversight and increasing transparency into
Despite an unprecedented number of new regulations being introduced into the Cayman Islands over the past 18 months, the jurisdiction has shown itself to be remarkably resilient, with the Islands’ funds industry in particular rising to the challenge and demonstrating its adaptability and flexibility.
In this article, leading offshore legal services firm Appleby, discusses some of the key regulatory changes in Cayman and explains how it has pivoted its own service offerings to respond to these challenges and to ensure the firm continues to meet client demands.
In 2020 the Cayman Islands introduced several regulatory developments, including the Private Funds
By Jude Scott, CEO, Cayman Finance – As the unprecedented year that has been 2020 draws to a close, we can look to the year ahead with some optimism. That’s in part due to the resilience of the Cayman Islands financial services industry, which continues to meet evolving global best practices.
Our jurisdiction has been recognised by the European Union as a cooperative jurisdiction on all criteria for tax transparency and fair taxation. This should provide some comfort to investors who are increasingly engaged in a flight to quality, relocating their resources based on extensive assessments of which financial centres
By A Paris – In what has been a rollercoaster year from all perspectives, 2020 saw the Cayman Islands being first placed on the European Union blacklist in February, followed by its removal from said list in October, after it made improvements to its tax framework.
The jurisdiction, best known as a domicile of choice for hedge funds and alternative investments, has introduced a spectacular 19 new pieces of legislation in its steadfast endeavour to strengthen oversight and ensure the Cayman Islands industry is aligned with global standards.
Elemental to Cayman’s removal from the EU blacklist was the enhancement of its framework
By Jude Scott, Cayman Finance – In August 1864, 900 miles almost due North of the Cayman Islands, US Navy Rear Admiral David Farragut faced a pivotal moment. Leading a squadron charged with attacking Confederate forces in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Farragut’s flotilla encountered tethered mines known then as “torpedoes” which ultimately threatened his mission and his men. Acting decisively to navigate around the threat and pursue his objective, Farragut uttered the phrase that has now passed into military lore: “Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!”
Leaders in every walk of life will meet challenges that could distract their focus, diminish
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