Category: Alts

Apex, the Bermuda-based financial services provider, it provided pre-IPO support to Home REIT plc ahead of its listing on the London Stock Exchange. Apex will continue to work with Home REIT to provide fund, financial and corporate solutions, including real estate fund administration and accounting, AIFMD depositary, corporate governance and company secretarial services.

BNP Paribas Securities Services and Curv, a cloud-based digital asset security infrastructure for financial institutions, have completed a proof of concept to transfer security tokens securely between market participants. As part of this engagement, BNP Paribas Securities Services and Curv transferred a security token using Curv’s multi-party computation solution to ensure the security of the…

Finomial, a client lifecycle management platform, has launched Finomial Electronic Subscriptions to digitise the manual subscription process. With this product, Finomial claims to offer a complete solution for alternative investment managers and their fund administrators, including investor compliance, on-boarding, capital activity, collaboration, and regulatory reporting to global authorities. The service provides investors with an easy-to-use,…

TMF Group and Farad Group have signed an agreement for the acquisition of Selectra Management Company by TMF Group from Farad Group. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier. Selectra is a regulated management company based in Luxembourg, servicing both AIFs and UCITS.

Itaú USA Asset Management has selected SS&C GlobeOp as its fund administrator. IUAM is the U.S. investment management arm of Itaú Unibanco, Brazil’s largest non-government bank. SS&C will provide fund administration, including full middle and back office services, investor services, performance analytics, regulatory compliance assistance and risk-related services for Bank Itaú’s Cayman-domiciled funds.

Centaur Fund Services, the Ireland-based administrator, has appointed Louise Lawlor as group chief financial officer. She is based in Dublin. Prior to joining Centaur, Lawlor worked at Key Capital, an Irish wealth, investment and corporate advisory firm, where she advised financial services businesses on mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and other strategic initiatives.

Northern Trust has released two new reporting capabilities – valuation status and advanced client reporting – for its Front Office Solutions clients. The new FOS valuation status tool enables institutional investors to more accurately measure current portfolio values and issues alerts when prices are updated. The advanced client reporting tool allows users to customise report…