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Eze Castle Integration, a global managed service provider to the investment industry, has launched its Eze Dark Web Monitoring Service to proactively protect clients against the threat of stolen user credentials and targeted account takeover.
Eze Dark Web Monitoring scans the dark web for client watchlist assets and triggers an automatic response if a match occurs to enable action before a potential breach.
Across the dark web underworld criminals are buying and selling stolen user credentials, including email addresses, usernames and passwords, to access high value (i.e. executive and privileged user) accounts. Once in a system, criminals steal financial assets,
SVK Crypto is leading a USD2 million series A funding round for innovative, end-to-end business management SaaS company, MakerOS.
With participation from EOS Global, MakerOS intends to use the funds to expand the company and integrate the EOSIO blockchain technology in their software platform.
MakerOS was co-founded by Mike Moceri and Joe Tavares in 2015. It is a cutting-edge, end-to-end enterprise management SaaS platform for product developers – used by providers of manufacturing services, designers, engineers, and light fabricators. It streamlines business processes and the production of digital and physical products, with the overall aim to increase profitability, efficiency, and security of the
Colmore, a provider of private market Limited Partner services, and the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), have launched a membership offer for Colmore’s fee validation service.
Colmore’s Fee Allocation Incentive Reporting program, or “FAIR”, is designed to help private markets investors validate fees, expenses and carried interest allocations charged by underlying fund managers.
Ben Cook, CEO of Colmore, says: “ILPA has been fundamental in helping LPs get better access to fee and expense reporting data. What comes next is where we come in: providing confidence that the fees are as the Investor expected.” Cook continued, “We spent a lot of
Northern Trust is to provide fund administration and banking services to the recently launched Apse Capital Bridge Fund.
Apse Capital is a new independent European private equity group focusing on buyout and development capital opportunities in European tech enabled information and services businesses.
The closed-ended private equity fund has been established under Guernsey’s Private Investment Fund (PIF) regime which offers an expedited route to market for eligible funds and provides fund managers with greater flexibility.
Ashley Long, Partner, Apse Capital, says: “The Fund was launched in under three weeks, including securing the regulatory approvals. This is testament to Guernsey’s favourable
OpenGamma, a specialist in derivatives analytics, has raised USD10 million in funding led by early-stage fintech and B2B software venture capital firm Dawn.
The funding round includes participation from existing investors Accel, CME Ventures and ex-SunGuard CEO and prolific fintech angel investor Cristóbal Conde.
OpenGamma’s analytics solutions allow the world’s banks, hedge funds and asset managers to dramatically reduce the cost of trading derivatives. New regulation is forcing firms to post billions in capital to take market positions with significant increases over the next two years. This is at a time when returns are already under extreme pressure. As
Tableau, a visual analytics platform, and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have joined forces in a data driven initiative that visualises data-points about EIF investments that are supporting business innovation, entrepreneurship and employment across EU Member States and associated beneficiary countries.
Using Tableau, the EIF, based in Luxembourg, has developed a public facing interactive map, built on AWS, in order to bring data directly into the hands of the public, allowing them to easily see and understand where and how the EIF has been investing more than EUR136 billion into European small and medium-sized businesses over the past 25 years. Current
Intertrust, a provider of administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, has strengthened its fund servicing platform in Ireland with the launch of a new fund administration business.
Intertrust will provide administration services to both Irish and non-Irish domiciled collective investment schemes providing expert support to its global portfolio of private equity, real estate and private debt clients in relation to their back-office accounting and investor relations operations.
Intertrust Ireland Managing Director, Imelda Shine (pictured), says: “The decision to extend our Irish fund services business to include fund administration speaks to our strategy of
OpZone.com, a new website designed to be the central resource for information about Opportunity Zones, has launched. The Opportunity Zone tax incentive was established by Congress to encourage long-term investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide.
According to Tom Mullarkey, CEO and Co-founder of OpZone.com: “We believe that bringing an institutional mindset to Opportunity Zones is essential for the program to succeed. We are confident that our efforts will improve the efficient flow of information, and we hope that OpZone.com will assist the program in its mission of accelerating the flow of capital to communities in need.”
OpZone.com is
Scope Analysis, a specialist in the analysis and rating of asset management companies and certificate issuers, as well as mutual funds and alternative investment funds, has published an updated Asset Management Rating Methodology for Alternative Investments.
Asset managers and investors can comment on the new methodology until 23 April 2019. The final version of the new rating methodology will be published after the commenting phase.
With the adjustments to the rating methodology, there will be an even stronger focus on the concerns and needs of investors. For example, the skills and competencies in the areas of investor reporting and
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has been selected by Altor to provide administration and depositary services to Altor Fund V, a fund domiciled in Sweden and whose Manager is regulated as an AIFM by the Swedish Financial Services Authority.
Focused on investing in and developing mid-market companies in Europe, with a particular focus on the Nordic and German-speaking DACH regions, Fund V was substantially oversubscribed, reaching its hard cap target of EUR2.5 billion in a single closing.
Fund V will have a 15-year investment term. Investments will generally be made in private companies with revenues
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