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Global fintech firm InvestCloud Inc has announced the acquisition of London-based rplan Limited for USD20 million.
rplan is a provider of client engagement technology in the UK to support bespoke investment propositions for web and mobile. Its client base includes some of the largest institutional asset managers in the world, including four of the top eight in the UK.
The firm writes that rplan has had significant success enabling asset managers to digitize their existing retail clients and catapult the development of their digital strategy to support multi-channel distribution.
The acquisition will see rplan’s capabilities made available to
Cryptocurrency initial coin offerings (ICOs) will become a significant fundraising route for companies seeking growth capital in the next five years, coming to represent over 10 per cent of all capital raised in the UK, according to results of a new survey by the law firm Collyer Bristow.
Over half (57 per cent) of respondents, comprising investment managers, fintech entrepreneurs and business owners, believe that start-ups will turn to ICOs in increasing numbers as they look for alternatives to more traditional capital raising methods like private equity and venture capital.
They anticipate that at least 10 per cent of
Ipreo, a provider of financial services technology, data, and analytics, has partnered with global professional services firm, Alvarez and Marsal (A&M) to provide enhanced integration and optimisation of Ipreo’s Private Capital Markets (PCM) solution suite for alternative asset managers.
Ipreo PCM’s solutions enable private capital firms, their LPs, and service providers to manage the overall data flow across their respective asset classes. Ipreo’s iLEVEL platform is a private market portfolio management solution, and counts many of the world’s top private capital firms, fund managers, and institutional investors as clients.
A&M’s Alternative Investment Services group helps funds address complex challenges
Technology continues to infiltrate every aspect of global business. Not a day goes by where the impact of platforms like Amazon, Facebook etc, isn’t felt by those in the asset management industry. The fact is, investor habits are rapidly changing and the way they choose to invest is beginning to mirror the way they use technology to support all other aspects of their lives, from shopping online to algorithms providing recommendations, personally curated to them, on Netflix.
Over half of private equity and real estate fund managers are less than satisfied with their firm’s current level of cybersecurity arrangements, according to a new survey carried out by fund administrator Augentius.
Some 54 per cent of managers also identified cybersecurity as one of their top two priorities for technology investment this year, with the other leading priority being data management and cloud.
The survey, which polled the views of firms across the globe, shows the extent to which managers prioritise investing in their businesses’ technology, in a sector that was once regarded as relatively low-tech.
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Taliance, a software and cloud provider for alternative asset managers, has launched The Lab, a series of apps designed to help clients work more efficiently.
The Lab is now available for free to current clients. Each app contains a fully downloadable model that allows companies to tackle a specific problem in the investment process and encourage innovation in investing.
At launch Taliance is releasing three apps, WALT, CURRENCIES and WATERFALL.
WALT (also known as WALE, WAULT or WALL) is used to calculate the risk of a property that is becoming vacant in a given year and is used
Carey Olsen’s corporate team in the Cayman Islands has advised the Ultraviolet Foundation on its token generation event with respect to its innovative research and data exchange blockchain platform, Ultraviolet Protocol (UVP).
The platform allows teams and individuals to create independent research applications enabling participants to pose research topics or request data and generate a single, trusted and verifiable answer by leveraging the wisdom of the crowd. These applications intend to develop a new system of knowledge creation outside of centralised institutions that provides many millions of people with the opportunity to earn money by contributing research and knowledge.
Hedge fund, private equity and other asset management firms are using cutting-edge, values-based marketing technology to open new doors and build stronger relationship with allocators.
This new Valuegraphics profiling identifies more precisely what drives investor decision-making, rather than relying on cocktail party chatter and on-the-run elevator pitches.
“Gut level stereotyping of, and traditionally analog relationships with, target audiences isn’t good enough anymore,” says Kyle Dunn (pictured), founder and CEO of Meyler Capital, a leading integrated capital-raising and marketing services company serving alternative investment managers.
“Similar to what consumer-facing companies have done for years, Meyler’s new Valuegraphics profiling system
Verto Management, a newly formed waste to value and integrated renewable energy asset management platform, has selected PEF Services to provide fund administration services through its fund accounting platform.
Verto has secured an initial mandate to manage in excess of USD190 million of waste to value and integrated renewable energy assets, and is also pursuing a pipeline of potential project investments and acquisitions to accelerate growth initially in North America, Europe and Australasia.
“PEF’s reputation for providing exceptional service to its clients, together with innovative technology solutions that will allow us to scale, were key drivers in our decision,”
Carey Olsen has advised Techemy Capital Limited on the launch of HODL 1 – a closed-ended fund vehicle targeting investments into private-sale stage initial coin offerings (ICOs).
The fund, which has been authorised under the Jersey Private Fund regime, has appointed Techemy Capital Limited as investment adviser and will invest in cryptographic token deal flow.
The Techemy Group, based in New Zealand, owns and operates a range of businesses which assist in institutionalising this new asset class.
Partner James Mulholland led the Carey Olsen team advising Techemy Capital and was assisted by senior associate Lauren Fletcher.
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