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Alternative assets platform CoInvestor has partnered with five major fund managers in the run-up to the height of the tax season.
Albion Capital, Amati Global Investors, Blackfinch Investments, Stellar Asset Management and Unicorn Asset Management have teamed up with CoInvestor to access the growing number of advisory firms allocating to alternative assets via the platform and comes amid increasing demand from financial advisers for a more simplified application process into tax-efficient funds.
CoInvestor is bringing alternative assets into the mainstream with its ability to remove paperwork and allow advisers to allocate online. By applying digitally, advisers benefit from
Threat Stack, provider of an intrusion detection platform for cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premise environments, has raised USD45 million in a Series C funding round led by F-Prime Capital Partners, the venture capital group associated with the parent company of Fidelity Investments, and Eight Roads Ventures, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners, .406 Ventures, and Accomplice.
As part of the funding, which brings the total investment in Threat Stack to more than USD70 million, Gaurav Tuli of F-Prime will join Threat Stack’s Board of Directors and Davor Hebel of Eight Roads Ventures will be an observer.
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Telcoin, a new cryptocurrency promoting financial inclusion through telecommunications industry partnerships, has secured an investment from East Ventures Managing Partner and Mixi co-founder Batara Eto.
Eto served as co-founder and CTO of Mixi from 2004 to 2007. Mixi began as Japan’s first social network, a predecessor to Facebook likened to a localised version of MySpace, before pivoting to mobile gaming. The company went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2006.
In 2009, Eto co-founded East Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm jointly based in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. The firm has invested in more than 150 seed and
Neuberger Berman, an investment manager specialising in equities, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund portfolios for institutions and advisors worldwide, has implemented Hazeltree’s, treasury product suite.
Hazeltree’s suite provides Neuberger Berman with automated workflows in reconciliation, securities financing, margin management as well as cash and collateral management.
“At Neuberger Berman, we continually work to enhance our infrastructure to best serve clients and the increasingly complex solutions they demand,” says Pat Lomelo, Neuberger Berman’s Global Head of Operations. “Hazeltree has helped to streamline our treasury management function and has delivered leading-edge risk-reduction capabilities.”
“We are pleased to work
Fintech research veteran Amar Rajani has joined the FeedStock Advisory Board, effective immediately.
Rajani is Founder and Managing Director of Argella Limited, an advisory firm specialising in FinTech and with specialist knowledge in the research and regulatory space. Prior to this, he spent the past 17 years at Bloomberg LP, where he was Global Product Manager for their research management business with responsibility for the MiFID II research stream. During this period, he was also a founding member of Bloomberg’s Enterprise Products and Solutions team, as well as manager of several teams including London buy-side.
Charlie Henderson, Managing Director
By George Ralph, RFA – Outsourcing your IT support may seem like a luxury in austerity Britain, but it can save time, drive efficiencies and actually give firms a competitive edge. Employees are key stakeholders in defining the perception of a firm, and if they receive a great service when they have an issue with their IT, it will reflect well on the firm’s reputation.
By outsourcing IT support, firms can avoid downtime before it affects business. Reliable partners will make a significant investment in technology to monitor infrastructure, quickly identifying issues and often resolving them before they are brought
Asset management consultancy MJ Hudson has launched its Fund Management Solutions team in continental Europe, from new offices in central Luxembourg.
The Luxembourg office provides its clients with increased options post-Brexit and guarantees EU operating capacity.
Research conducted recently by MJ Hudson has found that two-thirds of UK-based fund managers and three-quarters of their continental Europe-based peers do not believe that Theresa May’s Brexit negotiations will deliver an outcome that is ideal to the UK asset management industry.
More than 70 per cent of fund investors based outside the UK predict that, by the end of 2020, the
By George Ralph, RFA – Everything is virtual these days. From virtual teams, spread across the globe, which can perform better than traditional on-site teams, to the virtual offices they work in, at home, in the coffee shop, in shared office space. If the right technology is in place, people can work anywhere.
To take advantage of virtual services, the right technology has to be in place. For a virtual team to work effectively, there needs to be a collaboration tool which allows everyone to ask questions, or share ideas and seek approval or input. There also needs to
By George Ralph, RFA – The use of Artificial Intelligence is becoming decidedly commonplace. Wikipedia describes AI research as “the study of intelligent agents: any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximise its chance of success at some goal.” AI is often used interchangeably with Machine Learning, which is described as the subfield of computer science that, according to Arthur Samuel, gives “computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”
Machine Learning more accurately describes the technology that we are seeing more and more often in the IT industry, with machines programmed to have neural networks,
Specialist capital markets services provider Lucid Issuer Services Limited (Lucid) has launched Lucid Agency and Trustee Services Limited, and has made four senior hires to support its ambitions for growth in the capital and private credit markets.
John Traynor joins from Wilmington Trust Company and Emma Hamley from US Bank Global Corporate Trust Services to drive the growth of the agency and trustee business. Paul Barton and Christopher Eastlake, also from Wilmington Trust and US Bank respectively, lead the relationship management team.
Known for its exemplary client service and unwavering focus on transaction execution, Lucid saw strong demand from existing
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