Bosonic, a decentralised financial market infrastructure (dFMI) business with a real-time clearing and settlement service for crypto and digital assets — the Bosonic Network – has hired Paddy Boyle as global head of clearing and derivatives. Boyle is based in London and reports into CEO Rosario Ingargiola. He is charged primarily with further building out…
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State Street appoints new head of private markets
State Street has appointed Jesse Cole as global head of its private markets segment. In this role, Cole will be responsible for defining and executing State Street’s global strategy for private markets and will work closely with the global sales and product organisations to manage and grow private markets business across all client segments. Cole…
BP2S to deploy Next Gate tech
BNP Paribas Securities Services and Next Gate Tech have reached an agreement through which BP2S will deploy Next Gate Tech’s data management and NAV oversight technology to support its depositary bank operations, initially in Luxembourg. Next Gate is a Luxembourg-based fintech which recently hired Eduardo Gramuglia, formerly head of State Street in Luxembourg, as its…
Vistra to implement Depowise solution
Vistra, the Singapore-based provider of fund administration and corporate services, has established a partnership with Depowise to adopt its depositary solution. Depowise is a European-based provider of regtech solutions. The new partnership allows Vistra to transform and digitise depositary business processes. Depowise will be rolled out across Vistra’s European depositary operations in the UK and…
Metrics appoints Equity Trustees for new fund
Equity Trustees, the Australia-based provider of administration services, has been appointed responsible entity (trustee) and custodian for the Metrics Direct Income Fund, managed by Metrics Credit Partners, an Australian non-bank corporate lender and alternative asset manager specialising in origination and active management of private debt portfolios. The fund seeks to provide monthly cash income, capital…
Hex Trust raises USD88m
Hex Trust, an Asia-based digital asset custodian with >USD5bn AuC, has closed its Series B funding round of USD88m. The funding round was co-led by Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures. The new funding will be used to expand in Europe and the Middle East, obtain additional licences, continue development and innovation, and enhance new…
Gen II acquires Update Capital
Gen II Fund Services, LLC, a U.S.-based fund administrator in the alternatives investment market, has acquired Update Capital, a Canada-based provider of investment management technology solutions for the real estate market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Update Capital provides an automated, cloud-based solution for real estate sponsors to manage their assets and investors.
Perennial appoints Apex for new fund
Apex has been appointed by Perennial Partners to provide fund administration services to Perennial Private Ventures Fund. The fund is aiming to raise AUD200m (USD145m) to invest in high growth private businesses. The launch of the fund follows the success of Perennial’s three existing private to public fund strategies – also administered by Apex –…
IQ-EQ to support African impact firm
IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based administrator, has been appointed to provide fund administration services to EG Capital, an East African impact investment firm headquartered in Mauritius with offices in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
New Forests appoints Apex for new fund
Apex has been appointed by New Forests to provide fund services to Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2). New Forests, an Australia-based investment manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies, has AUD7.8bn (USD5.8bn) AuM across 1.1 million hectares (2.7 million acres) of investments. New Forests announced the first close of TAFF2 with USD120m…