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Private equity real estate fund administrator Langham Hall has opened an office in New York.
The firm can now provide clients with global coverage from seven offices across three continents.
The new office provides its US clients with a range of fund administration services to US domestic funds and respective offshore entities, as well as US companies.
Langham Hall will provide fund accounting, investor reporting and general administration services to debt, infrastructure, private equity and real estate funds.
Following the establishment of Langham Hall US, Matt Lowe has been appointed as the firm’s head of US. Prior
New York-based private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners has launched Togetherwork, a holding company for businesses developing software used to manage and collect payments from groups and organisations.
Building on the foundation of Aquiline portfolio company OmegaFi, a provider of management, payments and fundraising software for fraternities and sororities, Togetherwork aims to acquire software companies in adjacent verticals, creating a family of companies that provide similar technology and services to broader organisations such as sports leagues, summer camps, and cultural and educational institutions.
In addition to retaining their own teams and identities while continuing to operate independently, all Togetherwork
Private equity software provider Altvia Solutions has launched Altvia Correspond Market Edition, designed for private equity firms to manage mass communications for prospecting, fundraising and deal announcements.
The addition comes on the heels of the firm’s recent 10-year anniversary rebrand, with the newly coined “Altvia Correspond” solution set that includes the new Market Edition and the Investor Edition, formerly AIM Investor Correspondence.
Market Edition permits users to build and save email smart lists, create professional email templates and send emails to 50,000 contacts per mailing without leaving AIM, the firm’s CRM solution for private equity on the Salesforce platform.
FINCAD is holding a follow-up to its incredibly popular July live webinar “Negative Rates: Dealing with an Unorthodox Experiment,” with an interactive discussion tomorrow, 28 September, designed to help answer any questions arising from this pressing topic.
The live Q&A session, which is scheduled for 11am ET, 8pm PT and 4 PM BST, will be completely audience-driven. There will be no pitch from FINCAD, just open, honest answers to questions on negative rates and related industry topics.
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The hosts for the session will
Circle Partners (Circle) is an independent fund administrator with offices across the EU, the Americas and Hong Kong. Circle has the ability to set up sub-funds on its Luxembourg SICAV and guide start-up managers through the whole process of bringing a new fund to market in all major fund jurisdictions.
By extension, Circle has a large network of local counterparties based in Malta and as Peter Jakubicka (pictured), Business Development Manager at Circle explains: "We can offer a `one-stop shop' solution from the set-up phase through to launch including brokers, custodians, auditors; basically all of the functions that are required
The shock Brexit result this June sent ripples across Europe as individual Member States absorbed the news. And whilst some jurisdictions have been quick to seize the initiative on the back of the uncertainty that UK firms face – especially as it relates to passporting for London's much lauded financial services industry – Malta is focusing on maintaining the harmonious relationship it has with the UK.
"We see ourselves partnering with UK operators to provide solutions to help them sustain their business models; we're not looking to try and take business away from the UK," comments Kenneth Farrugia (pictured), Chairman
One of EIT Digital’s supported scale-ups, SecurityMatters, a provider of advanced cyber security solutions for industrial control systems, has raised funding from four prime investment groups, including Robert Bosch Venture Capital.
To date, EIT Digital has helped companies to raise more than EUR70 million, primarily in Series A investments.
SecurityMatters has developed an automated network and situational awareness platform that enables critical infrastructure organisations worldwide to operate best-of-class cyber-resilient industrial control systems. Self-configuring and self-learning, SecurityMatters’ solution is detecting more cyber threats than any comparable technology.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, SecurityMatters has expanded its installed base in tens
There were 229 new listings on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) during the first half of 2016, an increase of 13 per cent on the same period last year.
It takes the number of listed securities on the Official List to 2,222 at the end of June 2016.
Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), CEO of the CISE, says: “I’m delighted that once again we have seen significant growth in new listings.
“It is very noticeable that we are seeing increased diversification in the geographical origin of our business. An increasing proportion of new work is coming from further
In the first of a five-part series, SEI discusses the impact of five disruptive technologies and how they can be applied to the financial industry. The first of these five trends relates to IBM Watson, and the power of cognitive computing.
Cognitive computing and machine learning capabilities are becoming so great that even Elon Musk has raised concerns.
Speaking recently at Recode’s Code Conference, he said: “I don’t know a lot of people who love the idea of living under a despot,” the inference being that self-awareness super-computers could become a malign force; think creepy-voiced HAL9000 in the seminal movie,
Granting Guernsey a “third country” passport under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) would lead to increased investment in European infrastructure projects, research by the island’s financial services regulator has found.
The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) undertook a survey of Guernsey fund administration companies in response to a request from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), to understand the potential impact of extending an EU AIFMD passport to Guernsey.
ESMA’s request, which was made before it published its non-EU AIFMD passport review findings, asked specifically for an evaluation of the “expected inflow of funds by size
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