Category: Alts

Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration services to Midtown Capital Partners LLC, a U.S.-based real estate investment firm focused on acquiring properties in the office, retail, industrial, and multifamily markets. Midtown has executed more than USD500m in acquisitions in the past five years, with a current portfolio valued at USD800m.

Confluence Technologies, a U.S.-based technology solutions provider for the investment management industry, has expanded its partnership with a large Midwest insurance and multi-strategy investment firm that will now deploy Confluence’s cloud-based Revolution platform for its 18f-4 derivatives and risk monitoring needs. The multi-strategy firm, which already uses Confluence’s Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting platform, will implement…

Gordian Capital, an Asia-based institutional fund management platform with AuM of USD7bn, has expanded its relationship with SS&C in Singapore and Japan. The platform, which uses SS&C GlobeOp for fund administration, has added the Eze Investment Suite to support trading, portfolio and risk management. Gordian Capital will now take advantage of the integrated solution in…

BNP Paribas Securities Services has signed a strategic partnership with Van Lanschot Kempen (VLK) which includes two new mandates covering EUR16bn in assets (USD18.5bn). VLK is a Netherlands-based specialist independent wealth manager. As part of this partnership, BP2S will provide Kempen Capital Management, the asset management arm of VLK, with global custody, depositary bank, fund…

State Street has been appointed to provide custody services to the Digital Securities Depository Corporation (DSDC). DSDC operates a cross-border securities settlement infrastructure with third-party regulated financial institutions to create, issue and service digital depositary receipts (DDRs) in the US public market. The securities underlying the DDRs will include the non-US listed equity securities DSDC…

JTC Americas (formerly NES Financial) has entered into an agreement with the Darwin Metals Mining Opportunity Zone (OZ) Fund to provide fund administration services related to the reopening of a Californian mining district. Javelin Securities, LLC, a registered broker/dealer focused on vetting and raising capital OZs, has been retained to raise capital for the Darwin…