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Private equity firms are spending more budget and applying more focus on technology risk, especially cybersecurity risk, in order to maintain the highest operational standards both within their own businesses and those they invest in.
As George Ralph (pictured), Managing Director for RFA, a leading technology consulting group, explains, most PE firms tend to focus more on support service rather than the backend infrastructure, with risk management automation and compliance being two key aspects. Such is the level of diligence being applied by GPs to technology risk, hedge fund managers are increasingly turning to them for advice.
“Across our 830-odd
An overwhelming majority (85 per cent) of financial services professionals predict that demand for RegTech solutions will continue to grow until at least 2020 as the wave of new regulation a decade after the financial crisis shows no sign of abating.
Intertrust, a global leader in providing expert administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, surveyed over 500 executives covering the asset management, corporate, capital markets and private wealth sectors to identify the impact of RegTech on mounting regulatory and compliance obligations.
Private equity professionals predict the highest levels of demand for RegTech solutions
TMF Group to acquire State Street’s Private Equity and Real Estate (PERE) fund servicing business in the Channel Islands.
Completion of the deal will see TMF Group’s assets under administration reach over USD125 billion for PERE clients, making it one of the leading fund administrators in Europe. TMF Group’s ‘one-stop-shop’ of PERE services, including fund administration and depositary services, is supported by experts in over 80 jurisdictions worldwide.
In Jersey, the acquisition will add fund administration to its existing corporate and trust services, whilst in Guernsey, it will complement the recent acquisition of Gentoo, a leading fund administration business.
TigerRisk Partners, a risk, capital and strategic advisor to the global insurance and reinsurance industries, has adopted AIR’s cyber risk modelling platform, ARC (Analytics of Risk from Cyber), to better understand clients’ exposure to cyber loss.
ARC is a cyber risk analytics and modelling platform that informs risk selection, pricing, portfolio management and risk transfer.
Nathan Schwartz, Head of Analytics at TigerRisk, says: “Cyber is not only the fastest growing risk for many of our clients, it is also one of the most challenging to understand. AIR’s new probabilistic cyber model will help us analyse our clients’ cyber exposure
Following massive deployment of private capital and recent volatile markets, CEPRES reports up to an 80 per cent increase in risk and fundamental analysis on its Investment Decision Platform – PE.Analyzer.
CEPRES has seen a huge 60 per cent growth in investment transactions during 2018 to USD23 trillion of assets across 63,973 private market deals from 6,032 Funds. With now the largest-ever transactional data on private markets, CEPRES clients can measure and stress test their investments versus macro-economic conditions to ensure they can protect against volatile market conditions.
There has been a strong recovery in private markets following the Global
QDOOZ, a life skills improvement platform, has launched a month-long crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise a minimum of GBP500,000. QDOOZ will cap the Crowdcube raise to a maximum of GBP1,550,000.
This campaign comes after a successful earlier round of funding which raised GBP3 million from 50 private investors.
QDOOZ is a digital platform which is addressing the distinct gap in personal life skills education and training. With proprietary intellectual property (IP) and a clever, comprehensively researched business plan and a clear monetisation strategy, QDOOZ will launch in Q2 2019 to more than three million identified potential users. It will be free
Analytics Ventures, a fund dedicated to creating and building venture companies that harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, has added AlphaTrAI – a proprietary AI-based automated trading platform that fuses the latest explainable AI (XAI) techniques with multiple sophisticated trading strategies – to its venture portfolio.
With three-year back-testing results extending into the current volatile trading atmosphere, AlphaTrAI has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500. The company is now moving to live, real-time trading for the next phase of validation.
“AlphaTrAI consistently outperformed top hedge funds during back testing due to the proprietary end-to-end trading algorithms
Krypton Fund Services Holdings Ltd, a boutique independent fund services company based in Bermuda, has selected Pacific Fund Systems’ PFS-PAXUS fund administration system for its third-party fund administration business operations.
An established market-leading product, PFS-PAXUS offers a complete back-office fund accounting, portfolio valuation, fund pricing and transfer agency administrative solution that includes regulatory reporting, on a single, fully integrated system that satisfies the needs of the most sophisticated fund administrators.
Krypton provides fund administration, registrar and transfer agent, regulatory reporting, project management and setup, to a wide range of family office investment portfolios, investment funds, private and special purpose
Investor services firm SGG Group, which is backed by Astorg, has successfully completed its acquisition of Augentius having received teh relevant regulatory approvals.
This acquisition reinforces SGG Group’s position as the fourth largest independent investor services firm and one of the top three independent administrators to the alternative investment community in the world, with the deal growing its assets under administration to over USD400 billion, and further strengthens its reach and footprint.
SGG Group says the services offered by Augentius will complement its current funds offering, including a leading technological platform and experienced and specialist teams with a reputation for providing a
Canterbury Consulting, a Newport Beach-based institutional investment advisory firm with more than USD18.3 billion in assets under management, will turn to Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), in a multi-year relationship to efficiently digitise, track and organise thousands of documents and data points.
“Canoe’s system will help track and organise all our clients’ documents,” says Mike Ethridge, COO, Canterbury Consulting. “Transitioning from the time-consuming task of manually reviewing and sorting everything to Canoe’s intelligent system will be a huge win for our clients.”
Canoe’s first-of-its-kind technology eliminates manual data entry for alternative asset investors. The technology allows institutions, LPs, and family offices
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