Solutions
Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry internationally – has launched a new corporate brand and logo, We Are Guernsey.
The rebranding follows lengthy consultation with local industry focus groups.
The new brand and logo will now be used to promote the jurisdiction overseas in place of the old Guernsey International Finance Centre branding.
Guernsey Finance chief executive Dominic Wheatley says the new brand provides Guernsey with a fresh and current look that is fit for the modern world.
“It goes without saying that Guernsey is an international finance centre, so we wanted
Octopus Investments has launched Octopus Labs, a new fintech business which is developing technology-enabled financial solutions for the mainstream.
Octopus labs will be involved in ‘self-building’ some solutions and will support others through its fintech accelerator programme, with applications now open.
Octopus believes that for many, the world of finance – and financial products – remains complex, inaccessible and confusing. While the past few years have witnessed a fintech revolution in the UK, most of the innovations that have sprung up remain unfamiliar and unpalatable to both financial advisers and retail investors.
Octopus Labs aims to tackle these twin
Satuit Technologies, a provider of software solutions for the professional investment market, has partnered with CenturyLink to offer cloud-based hosting of its SatuitCRM and SatuitCRA software.
As part of this change, database infrastructure will be upgraded to SQL 2012.
In addition to allowing Satuit to upgrade the infrastructure and its security features, the new partnership will allow Canadian clients to use a Canadian site to host their SatuitCRM data.
The migration of client sites began in late July. All remaining client databases will migrated to the new partner by early autumn.
“We have been working intensively with
Substance in the fund management sector, particularly in the context of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative, is of increasing importance, according to a Guernsey Finance white paper.
Investment funds – Why substance is key, written by funds journalist Kirstie Brewer, examines how the need to prove that an offshore fund manager has the necessary ‘substance’ to its business dealings and functionality has never been more acute, particularly in the context of the current climate of regulatory reforms and politically-motivated improvement of tax transparency.
The white paper looks specifically at
ID Experts, a provider of software and services for cyber breach and identity fraud protection, has raised a USD27.5 million round of equity funding.
Healthcare private equity firm Peloton Equity and cybersecurity venture capital firm Trident Capital Cybersecurity, along with existing investors BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and the Sandbox Advantage Fund, participated in the round.
ID Experts will use the funding, combined with cash provided from operations, to repurchase shares from select existing shareholders and to continue to innovate its suite of SaaS-based technologies that address the complex cybersecurity and breach risks faced by healthcare, retail, education, and government organisations,
Sobera Capital has taken over the management of S-Refit in Regensburg, effective 1 July 2016.
Simultaneously, Sobera Capital also assumed management of associated vehicles S-Refit EFRE Fonds Bayern (EFRE), medTECH Capital Fonds and S-Partner Kapital. All vehicles together have 23 active portfolio companies.
The transaction involved a complex restructuring of the operations and balance sheet. Two experienced investment directors and the head of finance and controlling have joined Sobera Capital. In the course of the transaction, Sobera Capital also secured a debt financing for S-Refit.
Sobera Capital is a Berlin based independent secondary direct investor with a focus
Eze Castle Integration has expanded its cybersecurity consulting services for investment firms and will now offer vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and third-party due diligence audits to all firms across the investment industry.
Eze Vulnerability Assessments cover both internal and external network activities while Eze Penetration Testing Services work to test defences and uncover potential weaknesses.
For third-party due diligence audits, Eze Castle tailors analysis to the client-vendor relationships and goes deeper than the common one-size-fits-all checklist-type questions.
“Eze Castle Integration is recognised as the trusted technology advisor to the hedge fund and investment management industry. This role mandates
Nuveen has teamed with Artivest, a technology-driven alternatives investment platform, to bring alternative investments capabilities to RIAs, family offices, private banks and other financial advisers serving qualified high-net-worth investors.
Advisers will now be able to use investment tools, education materials and a client service team to access Nuveen and parent company TIAA’s alternative investment solutions, which currently comprise assets exceeding USD140 billion in aggregate, including real estate, agriculture, infrastructure, timber, agribusiness, private equity, as well as alternative credit-based, long/short, and special sector investment strategies.
Nuveen says alternative investments are playing an increasingly important role in building successful and diversified
Four words spring to mind when discussing the evolution of The Bahamas as a leading international financial jurisdiction: regulation, location, expertise and innovation.
Collectively, they provide a multi-layered value proposition that is helping The Bahamas cement a reputation for not only committing to a regulatory framework that embraces and, indeed, reflects international best practices, but which encourages tangible innovation. In other words, The Bahamas is a jurisdiction that gets things done, rather than just talking about it.
One only has to see the incredible success of the SMART funds series to appreciate this. First introduced in 2003, there are now
HgCapital portfolio company Intelliflo has launched an Open API for its business management system, Intelligent Office (iO), enabling its adviser and supplier partners to integrate their own solutions and processes fully with the data and functionality within iO.
Intelliflo’s aim is to allow its partners to enhance their own offerings using the data available via iO.
Nick Eatock (pictured), Intelliflo’s Executive Chairman, says: “We’ve opened up the iO system to give developers and clients access to most of its features, giving them the flexibility to interact with iO in whatever way they like including the ability to display the information
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
