Trident Trust has acquired Tricor IAG Fund Administration Group (TIAG), a small provider of fund administration services to Asian private equity and venture capital funds. Formed in 2013 as a joint venture between Tricor and IAG Group, TIAG has operations in Singapore and Hong Kong, and provides fund administration solutions to a broad range of…
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Circulate appoints SS&C for VCC
Circulate Capital has appointed SS&C GlobeOp as fund administrator for its Singapore-based variable capital company (VCC) fund and its Luxembourg feeder fund, and to provide anti-money laundering support.
Altum hires from Crestbridge
Altum has hired Steph Workman as a director in its real estate business, based in Jersey, C.I. She joins after nearly 12 years at Crestbridge.
Alter Domus secures new investment
Alter Domus, the Luxembourg-based provider of fund administration, private debt, and corporate services for the alternative investment industry, has secured new investment from Cinven, a private equity firm. The transaction gives Alter Domus an enterprise value of EUR4.9bn (USD5.3bn). The founders of Alter Domus and Permira, the existing PE investor, will continue to be significant…
Altum closes Link Lux deal
Altum Group, the C.I.-based financial services provider, has completed its acquisition of Link Fund Solutions (Luxembourg) S.A. (Link Luxembourg), following full regulatory approvals. Link Luxembourg is a provider of AIFM and third-party ManCo services. Following the close, Link Luxembourg will soon be rebranded to Altum Management Company (Luxembourg) S.A. and will operate as a subsidiary…
Altum adds in Lux
Agnes Csorgo has been appointed as a director of Altum, the C.I.-based administrator, based in Luxembourg. She joins from Slate Asset Management.
Railpen taps BK for data management
Railpen, the fiduciary and investment manager of the UK railways’ pension schemes, has appointed BNY Mellon to provide a cloud-based data platform that aims to simplify its data architecture and support the resilience of its operating model. The platform will deliver greater insights from Railpen’s proprietary data for investment reporting and analytics. Railpen is responsible…
Crestbridge hires European commercial director
Crestbridge, the UK-based administrator, has appointed James Morris as commercial director for Europe. He joins from TMF, where he was head of EMEA private equity & debt fund sales. Crestbridge is negotiating the sale of its fund administration business to Gen II, one of the world’s largest independent private capital fund administrators, with >USD1trn AuA.
Zodia wins ETC ETP mandate
ETC Group has appointed Zodia Custody to support its latest ETP listed on Deutsche Börse XETRA, the ETC Group Ethereum Staking ETP, a total return exchange-traded product that tracks the Compass Ethereum Total Return Monthly Index. The ETP is fully backed by the underlying digital assets, and counterparty risk is negated through an independent trustee.…
BK hires head of alts
BNY Mellon has hired Elliott Brown as head of alternatives for the asset servicing business. Based in New York, he reports to Christine Waldron, global head of fund services. He was previously at Citco and has also worked at Apex and J.P. Morgan.