Switzerland’s SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the world’s first fully regulated digital asset exchange and Central Securities Depository (CSD), in partnership with F10, a global FinTech and InsurTech Innovation Ecosystem and Aequitec, a digital share register and cap table company, ahas completed the first-ever tokenisation of equity shares in a fully regulated CSD based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

HIG Capital (HIG), a global alternative investment firm with $50 billion of capital under management, has appointed Alejandra Arguello managing director in the firm’s Capital Formation Group in New York City. Arguello will be responsible for business development and capital raising across HIG’s global credit platform. With over 22 years of experience in alternative investment management and institutional sales, Arguello joins HIG from Carlyle, where she was a managing director on the capital raising team.

State Street and FactSet have formed a strategic partnership to streamline data flows across the front, middle and back-office through State Street’s Alpha Data Platform.

Apex Group Ltd (Apex) has acquired Darwin Depositary Services (Darwin), a provider of depositary services to Alternative Investment Funds. Darwin, a leading independent AIFMD depositary in mainland Europe, provides services to clients based in the Netherlands and outside the EU, including hedge funds, real estate, debt and private equity funds as well as funds investing in infrastructure and renewable energy.   Apex Group currently delivers depositary services through subsidiary European Depositary Bank (EDB) in Luxembourg, Ireland, UK and Malta; the addition of the Darwin business will add €4.5bn of Assets under Depositary to the Group (as at 31 May 2022),

Kreab, a global communications and public affairs consulting firm, has once again consolidated its leading position in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in Spain, this time in terms of the total value and number of deals advised, according to the ranking of the Mergermarket platform. Specifically, Kreab has managed the communication of 21 transactions for a total value of €10,285 million during the first half of 2022, which places the consulting firm of Swedish origin at the top of the PR league table in Spain.   Beyond the transactions accounted for by Mergermarket (which must meet specific eligibility criteria),

GoldenSource, an independent provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, has launched cloud data services for financial markets firms to better manage data into and within data lakes and warehouses.

Diligend, a cloud-based due diligence software provider for asset allocators and managers has partnered with Suite2Go, a specialist consultancy headquartered in Australia that connects FinTechs with financial services organisations.

Dynamo Software, a provider of end-to-end cloud software solutions for the alternative investment management industry, has partnered wwith Northfield Information Services, to further augment its analytics and reporting by providing Limited Partners (LPs) with enhanced modelling and forecasting of cash flows and fair values. The Dynamo-Northfield partnership responds to the growing demand for insight and transparency into investment performance – which investors want readily available in today’s dynamic environment. The integration empowers Dynamo’s LP clients, including endowments, foundations, pensions, family offices, and fund of funds (FOF), to design allocation plans, assess potential cash flow shortfalls, and conduct stress/scenario testing with

Apex Group, a global financial services provider, has expanded its business relationship with DSG Consumer Partners, an investor in growing consumer businesses in India & Southeast Asia. Founded in 2012, DSG Consumer Partners invests in early-stage growth businesses, partnering with founders to help build the next generation of world-class consumer brands in India & Southeast Asia.   DSG Consumer Partners has recently appointed Apex in Mauritius and Singapore to provide fund solutions to its fourth fund, Singapore-domiciled DSG Consumer Partners VCC. As a trusted business partner, Apex will be expanding its mandate with DSG Consumer Partners to support this new