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FNEX has launched FNEX.com, an online marketplace for alternative investments, including placements in private companies, hedge funds and managed futures accounts.
The web-based platform provides accredited investors, family offices and institutions access to investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the US.
"FNEX is a centralised marketplace where investors and offering groups can connect and complete strategic transactions all on a single platform," says Todd Ryden, chief executive of FNEX. "Our unique and streamlined process caters to experienced, savvy investors who are looking for a simple sourcing platform that provides them with a reliable resource for
BNY Mellon has launched an enhanced distribution “waterfall” capability as part of its private equity fund services.
Distribution waterfalls in a private equity fund establish how proceeds from realised investments will be divided between investors and the fund manager. It is also through the distribution waterfall that fund managers and principals receive their performance and incentive fees, or “carried interest”.
Waterfall calculations, which are governed by the language found in limited partnership agreements, are one of the most complex aspects of servicing private equity funds. Today, most private equity firms and fund administrators rely on labour-intensive manual methods to
TopQ Software, a technology company founded by former private equity investors, has launched on topquartile.com.
TopQ is a tool for the secure exchange and analysis of track record data between private equity fund managers and institutional investors.
TopQ allows private equity fund managers to upload their fund performance data securely and quickly, and share their data with invited institutional investors. Using TopQ, investors can then analyse the data with accuracy and speed.
TopQ contains an array of proprietary technology, including an “intelligent import” capability, which means the platform can interpret track record data from a variety of
Convergence, a provider of data, tools and models to asset managers, investors and service providers, has launched a new website – www.convergencellc.us.
Convergence was formed to work with alternative and traditional asset managers to achieve optimal performance across their infrastructure platform.
The firm’s management team has significant experience implementing highly efficient infrastructure at a number of leading asset managers. Convergence uses proprietary benchmark data, combined with analytical tools and models to identify opportunities to reduce management company and fund expenses, and also has an advisory and solutions practice which can develop, implement and manage flexible service models including
Abax Corporate Services, a provider of corporate management and advisory services in Mauritius, has chosen eFront’s FrontInvest to support and enhance its private equity fund administration operations.
Mauritius offers a number of key market advantages, including tax and investment protection treaties, fair regulations, economic and political stability, as well as an environment promoting business expansion. These attributes have led to considerable growth in private equity fund administration services recently.
In order to accommodate this expansion and the constantly increasing expectations from private equity companies, Abax has selected FrontInvest.
“We wanted to provide our clients with the best
Options, the private financial cloud provider for the capital markets industry, has further expanded its connectivity to a number of key trading venues, in addition to adding a number of new data feeds to the Options PIPE Platform.
These latest additions to the IaaS provider’s offering come as a result of increased client demand.
This most recent deployment to the platform will see Options add HSBC and AllianceBernstein dark pools in Europe to its destinations, while the new market data feeds will include CBOE CSM, C2, CSM, BOX, CHX, and Nasdaq’s PHLX.
As a result of the
New listing rules for equities and investment funds have been issued by the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) as a further development of its upgrade to the Deutsche Boerse’s Xetra trading platform.
Existing rules have been refined based on market and regulatory developments and some new rules have been established to accommodate the nature of specialist companies, particularly mineral companies and shipping companies, as well as investment funds, including exchange traded funds and forestry funds which may be seeking sophisticated investors.
New rules have also been established to provide adequate transparency and disclosure for the inclusion of retail
iSIGHT Partners and Blackstone have teamed up to offer Blackstone portfolio companies iSIGHT Partners’ proprietary cyber threat intelligence.
Under the agreement, Blackstone portfolio companies will have discounted access to iSIGHT Partners’ intelligence. This intelligence will become the base of those participating companies’ cyber security strategies, enabling a much more efficient approach to prioritise security resources to counter relevant cyber threats.
More than a year ago, Blackstone recognised the potential severity of cyber security threats and began employing iSIGHT Partners’ intelligence to drive its cyber security strategy. Now Blackstone is providing its portfolio companies the opportunity to pursue the
Three tier one global investment banks have completed trials of Duco’s post trade reconciliation service, Duco Cube.
Duco Cube empowers operations teams to quickly set up and manage reconciliation controls themselves, without IT effort, and move away from labour and technology intensive solutions. This is made possible by artificial intelligence algorithms that match any data in any format, eliminate manual work and make it possible to identify risk points and react to regulatory demands faster than traditional solutions. In addition to bringing an “app-like” simplicity to operations, Duco Cube is operated on a flexible, pay by usage basis.
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Woodfield Fund Administration, an independent third-party fund administrator, has chosen Smonik RECON to support the portfolio reconciliation needs of its diverse group of investment management clients.
Woodfield’s selection of Smonik RECON comes as investment managers are increasingly broadening their investment strategies across regions and asset classes in pursuit of investment returns. To support more dynamic investment strategies, firms must be able to quickly and easily modify middle- and back-office processes to minimise risk and ensure operational efficiency in the new market environment.
Smonik RECON’s platform design enables Woodfield to quickly onboard new clients providing them with straight-through processing
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