The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has appointed Invesco as its Alternative Investment Insight Partner to share expertise on alternative investments with the industry. The PMI will work alongside Invesco to deliver webinars, interviews, panel discussions, research and case studies designed to increase understanding of alternative investments, spanning the range of assets, including Real Estate and Venture Capital.   The partnership will allow PMI members to access Invesco’s insight and experience on Alternative Investments through its multiple distribution channels, including its monthly magazine ‘Pensions Aspects’, email newsletters, PMI TV and its dedicated Insight Partners web area. PMI’s Insight Partnerships are developed

Hazeltree, a provider of integrated treasury and liquidity management solutions for investment managers, and LGT Capital Partners have completed the initial phase of implementation of Hazeltree’s cash and liquidity management solution. This phase is focused primarily on aggregating and automating LGT Capital Partners’ cash wires activity, replacing a legacy application. It establishes the platform for further enhancing LGT Capital Partners’ fund financial management operations by aggregating, optimising and improving execution of its cash, debt and liquidity management processes.

Luxembourg fund administrator, EFA, has selected NeoXam for a core Trade Settlement service based on NeoXam Tracker3, with a strong focus on the CSDR (Central Securities Depositories Regulation) requirement, alongside a bespoke digital reporting project. NeoXam Tracker3 allows EFA Middle Office service to track the entire settlement process of all active trades in near real-time. A dedicated online dashboard application has been designed to enable EFA’s clients to have digital access to the settlement status of their trades. NeoXam’s software is designed to meet CSDR’s objectives of improving the efficiency and transparency of settlements in Europe. EFA is an independent

The Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) are joining forces to align lenders and private equity sponsors to support material and consistent ESG data disclosure within the credit markets. This effort was kicked off last year by the PRI – which is supported by the United Nations and represents signatories with over USD120 trillion AUM – to standardise ESG information shared during the investment process.  The PRI worked extensively with a group of signatories to develop an ESG pre-investment due diligence template for target portfolio companies. The template maps the

Stanley Capital (SCP), a mid-market private equity firm focused on growing sustainable businesses in the Healthcare, Technology and Resource Efficiency sectors, and Applied Artificial Intelligence Corporation (AAICO), a artificial intelligence (AI) technology company headquartered in the UAE, are partnering to bring artificial intelligence to private equity investing. The partnership will entail using AAICO’s proprietary AI technologies within Stanley Labs (‘S-Labs’), Stanley Capital’s technology arm, which focuses on developing and using AI and automation products to identify, evaluate and create value within SCP, its Healthcare Services and Software Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicle (‘SPAC’), and its portfolio companies.  AAICO and Stanley Capital

Aquanow, a digital asset infrastructure company and crypto liquidity provider, is to join the Pyth network. Aquanow will feed its high-quality digital asset data to Pyth, a specialised oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data, and help deliver market access to trusted pricing. The Pyth Network delivers accurate, timely and verifiable market data to decentralised applications on a sub-second timescale. There are now over 50 publishers providing first-party quality data into Pyth across crypto assets, equities, and FX. Pyth is rapidly growing and has reached USD1.5 billion in DeFi total value locked derived from the exciting projects and protocols consuming Pyth

AltExchange has launched what it says is the industry’s first fully-automated alternative investment reporting and management platform. AltExchange automates and aggregates data on all alternative investments, from small fractional shares of cryptocurrency to multi-million dollar private equity investments, on a single platform. Investors can track up to USD1 million in assets with AltExchange for free. AltExchange is founded by serial entrepreneur Zak Boca and former Bloomberg executive and Bloomberg Terminal developer Kareem Hamady.

Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has formed a strategic partnership with iCapital to expand its Wealth Management Solutions initiative.   Through this partnership, Pemberton will leverage iCapital’s end-to-end technology solutions and have access to iCapital’s distribution partnerships to expand the offering of Pemberton’s private debt strategies to wealth managers globally.   iCapital is a global fintech platform, driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries. Historically, European alternative credit has primarily been accessible to institutional investors. However, wealth managers and private banks are increasingly seeking exposure to the asset class to achieve portfolio management

PwC is using the Diligend platform to enhance different service offerings including delegate oversight, business partner due diligence, as well as KYA checks under AML for its clients. The agreement between Diligend as a third-party and PwC, allows PwC teams to use Diligend to collect data in a structured, seamless manner with ease of reporting (dynamic dashboards, real time progress trackers, workflows, etc) for the purposes of supporting clients with their due diligence, ongoing monitoring and oversight needs.  Keeping up with the changing regulatory environment and complex operational models are driving the need for industry specific monitoring and oversight tools