Solutions
Drawbridge Partners, a premier cybersecurity services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has launched DrawbridgeConnect, an automated management platform which allows firms to manage all aspects of their cybersecurity program.
Complementing Drawbridge Partners’ current services offering, the platform allows firms to ensure regulatory compliance and satisfy investor demands. Users can extract data in real time to evidence their cyber risk posture to current and potential investors.
DrawbridgeConnect allows users to easily aggregate internal cyber risk assessment data to drive analysis and determine program strength and remediation, create and manage a resilient program to fulfil
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated treasury management solutions, has expanded its treasury and portfolio finance solutions to support private markets fund managers.
Hazeltree Private Markets is a purpose-built cash management and investor interactions solution to improve operational efficiencies and controls, reduce risk and exposure, and drive performance opportunities.
Hazeltree Private Markets automates the lifecycle of cash management from multi-bank and internal systems aggregation to projections of known and potential cashflows to automated cash movement suggestions in line with client-configured algorithms to the execution and movement of funds across a client’s banking eco-system. Hazeltree provides treasury teams with full transparency of
Intertrust, a provide of tech-enabled corporate and fund solutions to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, has expanded its services in the United States.
Clients with US domiciled legal entities and affiliated transactions now benefit from Intertrust’s local Funds and Capital Markets services, led by former BlackRock Director, Deirdre Hochman, and an expanded team of experts. The Funds and Capital Markets team in the US spans time-zones providing clients with extensive knowledge of local and global services.
The expansion leverages Funds Services technology adopted through Intertrust’s recent acquisition of Viteos, as well as new proprietary software
At nearly USD8 trillion, the US defined contribution (DC) retirement market remains one of the largest – and growing – opportunities for asset managers. From 2007 to 2017, net assets grew by 67 per cent, increasing by USD3.1 trillion.
RFA has come a long way since it first opened for business in 1989. Now the firm, which has over 800 clients, is one of the biggest cloud providers to the alternative investment sector, offering state-of-the-art cybersecurity services and fully managed IT and CTO consultancy services.
Much of RFA’s success can be attributed to the ethos of the firm, which takes a consultative, rather than product-led approach to client requirements, most of whom, as Managing Director George Ralph (pictured) points out, come via word of mouth. Ralph works alongside chairman, Richard Fleischman, president, Yohan Kim and CIO, Michael Asher.
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US Capital Global Securities, an affiliate of US Capital Global, is offering to accredited investors a USD10 million equity investment in CityBlock Capital’s first tokenised venture fund, NYCQ Fund LP, as the Fund’s exclusive placement agent.
US Capital Global Securities recently added the Fund to its own expanding portfolio. The Fund has holdings in leading names in the FinTech and blockchain infrastructure arena, including Coinbase, Bakkt, Nomics, and Tagomi.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Coinbase’s global revenue last
Crypta Labs has completed a GBP2.7 million (USD3.4m) funding round led by Bloc Ventures and includes GBP1,000,000 (USD1.3m) debt finance from Innovate UK.
Crypta Labs is a quantum cybersecurity company which develops IP, hardware and related software using the quantum properties of light to secure highly critical data and communication devices embedded in critical infrastructure for the aerospace, communication, medical, military, and transport sectors.
The investment will allow Crypta Labs to further the development of its Quantum Random Number Generation (QRNG) IP portfolio and to bring to market the first Quantum-enabled Hardware Security Module (QHSM) ensuring critical infrastructure remains secure
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the burgeoning cryptoasset industry, has closed its first equity funding round, led by North Island, the investment firm of prominent technology investor and Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, along with his son, James Hutchins.
After launching the Digital Assets Data platform with a USD6 million raise in its seed round earlier this year, this new injection of capital is an extension to the seed foundation and brings the total funds raised by the company to USD9.2 million.
The Digital Assets Data platform provides asset managers and other market participants
Vistra, a global trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, has launched its Economic Substance Services and Solutions, starting with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Economic Substance Classification Questionnaire designed to help clients determine the classification of their BVI company as it applies to the substance legislation.
Developed by Vistra’s in-house legal team, the BVI Economic Substance Classification Questionnaire is an efficient and effective service for any BVI entity to gain clarity on their status, supported by detailed analysis and tailored solutions.
Simon Filmer, Global Lead, Company Formation, Vistra, says: “It is now mandatory for all BVI entities to comply
Switzerland-based financial data expert SIX is launching a new service covering over 30,000 Financial Instruments (Securities) in connection with Marijuana Related Businesses (MRB) following the success of their SIX Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service.
The service comes at a time when many financial institutions grapple with the complex and changing legal landscape around marijuana. In the USA, for example, it is has been legalised in some states but is still criminal on the federal level. As a result, in some states MRB are able to raise money via the capital markets – enabling investors to access MRB-linked securities for the first
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