Year: 2024

Aztec Group, the alternatives administrator, has received licences from the Central Bank of Ireland to provide fund administration and depositary services, following its launch into the Irish market in 2023. Aztec Group administers >EUR600bn across the Channel Islands, Luxembourg, Ireland, the U.S., and UK. The Group specialises in alternative investments, administering over 450 funds covering…

Gen II Fund Services, the U.S.-based independent private capital fund administrator, has launched Sensr® DataBridge, an addition to its Sensr product suite. Sensr® DataBridge offers a no-code solution, enabling users to integrate fund administration data with both in-house and third-party platforms.

Kneip, the Luxembourg-based fund data management company owned by Deutsche Börse, has appointed Elisa Alonso Sanz as the company’s new CEO, effective 1 July 2024. She takes over from Enrique Sacau, who has been CEO of Kneip since 2020, and who will be relocating back to London.She is currently COO of ABN AMRO Investment Solutions.…

State Street has been appointed to provide administration services to the two new ETPs issued by DWS: the Xtrackers Galaxy Physical Bitcoin ETC Securities (XXBT) and the Xtrackers Galaxy Physical Ethereum ETC Securities (XETH), both of which are listed on Deutsche Börse. State Street will work alongside Zodia Custody and Coinbase, which have been appointed…

The ETC Group, a Germany-based digital asset ETP issuer, has formed a partnership with Zodia Custody, which will see a migration of assets from existing ETC Group products — including the recently launched ETC Group Ethereum Staking ETP (ET32) — to Zodia. In 2023 ETC appointed Komainu as custodian for its first index ETP and…

Citi’s securities services business in Australia has been appointed by Fiducian Group to provide custody, fund administration and registry services. The project involved transitioning >1,300 assets, many thousands of transactions, tax parcel data and unit pricing across Fiducian’s Investor Directed Portfolio Service (IDPS), superannuation wrap and Fiducian Funds product offerings. Fiducian is an Australian-owned financial…

Apex has become what it claims is the first transfer agent and fund service provider to administer regulated securities using blockchain as the book of record. This enables global private market funds to access a more diverse and significantly larger pool of qualified investors. In partnership with Hamilton Lane and Sygnum Bank, Apex created a…

Clearwater Analytics, a U.S.-based provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire risk and performance analytics solutions from Wilshire Advisors LLC. Specifically, Clearwater will acquire Wilshire Axiom, Wilshire Atlas, Wilshire Abacus, and Wilshire iQComposite, which provide fixed income analytics, equity analytics and performance measurement, accounting,…