Solutions
ZEDRA, a global specialist in fund solutions, has secured regulatory approval from the Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, for the acquisition of Curaçao- and US-based Atlas Fund Services, a privately held, fully licensed, alternative investment fund administrator.
SDAX, a private markets investment and trading platform based in Singapore, has partnered with Ownera, provider of a global inter-trading network, to distribute digital securities over the Ownera open-source FinP2P protocol network.
SDAX works with companies and institutions to raise funds in a fast, secure and cost-effective way through blockchain technology, in the process making these private market investment opportunities accessible to investors via fractionalized ownership.
Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, SDAX focuses on institutional-grade real estate and environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related investments. SDAX is backed by strategic shareholders such as ESR (APAC’s largest real asset manager),
Apex Group has closed its acquisition of Darwin Depositary Services, a Netherlands-based provider of depositary services to alternative investment funds including hedge funds, real estate, debt and private equity funds as well as funds investing in infrastructure and renewable energy.
Private equity major Apollo Global Management has chosen Anchorage Digital to provide custody services for its digital assets holdings.
As the USA’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, Anchorage expects to custody a significant portion of the alternative asset manager’s digital asset portfolio.
A segment from Apollo’s Adam Eling, the firm’s COO of digital assets said that the it was drawn to working with Anchorage by the company’s “commitment to operating under strict regulatory oversight, their strong emphasis on security and segregation of client assets, and their ease of use for asset managers to hold digital tokens”
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Novata, an ESG data management platform built for the private markets, is to provide ESG measurement and analysis support services for some of Ares Management’s direct lending strategies.
Nordbridge, an executive search firm for the private equity sector, has launched NordbridgePlus to provide clients, candidates and those in the sector with one-on-one coaching and advice.
The new service will include advisory sessions designed for individual career needs, diversity and inclusivity strategies, market benchmarking, in-depth career guidance, professional and leadership development, business transformation, organisational advisory support, assessment and development guidance, professional referencing, fund strategy and industry and networking events.
NordbridgePlus will be run jointly by Nordbridge CEO Sita Kolossa and Managing Director Jessica Beynon.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched a new end-to-end managed service solution to allow European asset managers to meeting their compliance obligations for the upcoming Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
From 1 January, 2023, SFDR requires asset managers to consider and disclose in a consistent manner how ESG factors are adopted in their decision-making processes. For Articles 8 and 9 funds, this includes a Pre-contractual Disclosure (PCD), Periodic Disclosure (PD) and Website Disclosure (WD).
Additionally, starting 30 June, 2023, asset managers will also be required to produce a Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) statement to determine the impact of their investment
CEPRES has launched CEPRES Predictive Intelligence, an enhanced, future-oriented portfolio management suite based on CEPRES’s proven and backtested forecasting technology.
CEPRES Predictive Intelligence enables investors to analyse existing, or plan complex new, private markets portfolios by running stochastic forecasts on cash flows and stress testing portfolio compositions to optimise asset allocations for any market condition.
With increasing capital dedicated to illiquid private market strategies combined with today’s growing complexity of portfolios and market uncertainties, many institutional investors – pension plans, insurers and sovereign wealth funds – face difficulty planning future liquidity and managing increased risk management regulatory requirements. CEPRES Predictive
Broadridge has appointed Stephen Johnston as Managing Director, Client Delivery Operations for Broadridge Fund Communication Solutions (FCS). Johnston will be responsible for all of the client servicing operations of the Fund Communication Solutions business, with Service Leads as his direct reports, and will be supported by FCS’s teams that span Ireland, UK, India and Poland.
Ebury, one of Europe’s largest fintechs and a global provider of transaction payment solutions, has established a branch in Luxembourg, registered under CSSF regulations to support managers in the alternative investments sector.
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