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Eze Software Group has rolled out a series of enhancements to its back-office operations workflows for private equity funds, simplifying a series of complex tasks to a single click.
Eze Investor Accounting (formerly known as Penny-It-Works) handles partnership and investor accounting for some of the largest hedge funds and their administrators.
It is now extending its reach into private equity by automating some PE-specific complex processes, such as waterfall schedules, with its v12.3 release.
“Institutional investors are demanding more concessions from private equity firms, thus making already complex waterfalls more elaborate. The new version of Eze Investor Accounting enhances
Watson Wheatley Financial Systems (WWFS) has implemented the iRecs reconciliation solution at online peer-to-peer SME business loan specialists ThinCats.
The new deal for WWFS marks the first time the iRecs platform has been used in a peer-to-peer lending environment.
Guy Whitaker, client money operations manager at ThinCats, says: “iRecs has become integral to our day-to-day operations and reporting of Client Money. As ThinCats continues to grow, the automation that iRecs provides ensures we have the capability to deal with significant increases in volumes, protect our clients’ money appropriately and meet our FCA CASS regulatory obligations.
“The WWFS support
Citco has launched an enhanced version of its risk and transparency offering which will enable clients to monitor and assess risk using flexible, customisable tools.
The technology is available to Citco clients and other alternative investment firms.
Citco’s suite of risk management tools enables users to access, monitor, analyse, and report risk in a way that is customisable and transparent.
The system now features interactive data visualisation dashboards, which can provide exposure and performance attribution drill-downs and deliver tailored analysis of key risk drivers across asset classes. The platform also includes new tools for stress testing and tailored
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative investment funds, has added security and communications enhancements to its AbacusFlex Private Cloud platform.
“As our client base of alternative investment firms continues to grow in the US, UK and Europe, Abacus is ensuring that our technology and services meet or exceed the highest standards for security and ease of communications,” says Viktor Tadijanovic (pictured), chief technology officer at Abacus.
Tadijanovic says that in recent months AbacusFlex has been enhanced with enhancements to the existing two-factor authentication solution, providing end-users with the option to receive their token via
Centaur’s newly-launched enhanced private equity service has won a major contract with a USD20 billion multi-strategy, multi-jurisdictional US headquartered private equity group.
The win came about after a detailed Request for Proposal (RFP) process, highlighting three principal requirements: service consistency that the client was not receiving from their previous administrators, stability within the service teams and administrator independence.
Centaur was selected as a result of its service, better contractual terms, independence and experience.
Eric Bertrand, founding partner of Centaur Fund Services, says: “We are delighted with this major private equity client win. With multiple fund structures across multiple
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to private equity in Europe, is providing administration services to Keen Venture Partners, a new venture capital firm operating from London and Amsterdam, in the first closing of its inaugural Keen Venture Partners Fund.
The fund had its first close at EUR90 million and will provide early growth capital for technology companies with breakaway momentum across Europe with a particular focus on innovation hubs in the UK, Netherlands, Sweden and Germany.
Ben Cook, UK managing director of Ipes, says: “Keen’s focus on innovation matches our own. We look forward to a long partnership
Maples Fund Services has extended its fund administration offering to the growing marketplace lending sector, which is synonymous with peer-to-peer (P2P) lending and encompasses a broader scope of lenders, including individuals and traditional financial intermediaries and institutions.
As increased regulation and tightening credit conditions at traditional banks force borrowers to seek out alternative channels, marketplace lending has gained popularity.
Given demand for fixed income options in the current market environment, hedge funds have recognised the sector's potential and are facilitating the introduction of institutional investors to this space.
"What began as a niche investment opportunity for individuals to
Guernsey has introduced a Private Investment Fund (PIF) regime designed to provide fund managers with greater flexibility and simplicity.
The PIF, which was developed in response to market demand by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) in consultation with the island’s GBP247 billion funds industry, recognises that certain investment funds are characterised by a relationship between management and investors that is closer than that of a typical agent.
The PIF dispenses with the formal requirement for information particulars such as a prospectus in recognition of that relationship, significantly reducing the cost and processing time of launching of a fund.
Alternative investment consultancy Lionpoint Group has partnered with eFront and Foresight Group to implement a fully integrated front-to-back office solution across all of Foresight's investment activities.
Lionpoint will act as project manager and lead consultant working closely with Foresight business representatives and eFront technical resources to configure and deploy eFront's flagship product, FrontInvest, as well as the latest version of eFront's market leading investor relations portal, eFront Investment Café.
Foresight manages some GBP2 billion of infrastructure and private equity assets in the UK, US, Southern Europe and Australia.
As an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and venture capital trust (VCT) managers,
Liberum, a pan-European investment bank, signed a multi-year deal with Torstone Technology to use Inferno in July and went live last week, implementing a complete back office system within four months.
Inferno will process Liberum’s post-trade flow, from trade capture through to settlement, accounting and reconciliation.
The ability to easily scale-up its business operations and update processes to comply with regulatory requirements was a key driver behind Liberum’s move to Inferno.
Inferno is an automated scalable system, which can handle large volumes on hosted commodity hardware. Its real-time, event-driven, service-orientated architecture enables firms to achieve very high rates
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