Category: Alts

BNP Paribas’s securities services business has upgraded its digital offering to alternative fund managers and their investors with the release of two enhanced solutions: CapLink Investor and CapLink Private. CapLink Investor is a platform for fund managers, investors, and authorised contacts, offering information and insights across their fund holdings. CapLink Private offers digital reporting through…

Clearstream, the post-trading services provider owned by Deutsche Börse, has established Clearstream Fund Centre S.A., a bank based in Luxembourg dedicated to serving institutional fund investors. The new entity operates under a commercial banking licence in Luxembourg. It will be part of Deutsche Börse’s and Clearstream’s Fund Services business segment, which provides fund execution, distribution…

Apex has announced plans to acquire various operating businesses of troubled asset management services provider, MJ Hudson. Apex intends to acquire MJ Hudson’s business divisions which offer services including ESG, ManCo, quantitative, investment advisory, custodian bank benchmarking, Channel Islands fiduciary and fund administration, as well as investor relations and marketing solutions. MJ Hudson’s ManCo services…

U.S. Bank Investment Services has joined the latest fundraising round by Versana, a fintech focused on the syndicated loan market. As a leading trustee, particularly for CLOs, which make up 70pct of the institutional loan market, U.S. Bancorp is Versana’s first buyside-focused investor, which Versana hopes will assist in creating a network effect with the…

U.S. Bank has appointed Jay Martin as president, global fund services. Martin will join the senior leadership team of U.S. Bank’s Wealth Management and Investment Services (WMIS) division. He will be based in Milwaukee. The position has been vacant since Joe Neuberger left in late 2022. Christine Waldron, chief product officer for WMIS, has been…

Arcesium, the fintech in which J.P. Morgan holds a stake, has launched Aquata, an “out-of-the-box” data platform. Aquata is engineered to support various client types, including institutional asset managers, private markets investors, custodians, fund administrators, prime brokers, and hedge funds, to manage their investment data. With Aquata’s pre-built data models and connectors, combined with its…

Old Mutual Multi-Managers has completed the conversion to Confluence’s cloud-based Revolution Performance solution, gaining greater operational efficiency and ease of use in performance and attribution reporting. A long-standing client, OMMM, a member of Old Mutual Group, has used Confluence’s legacy performance and analytics platform as an integral component of its data strategy. A cloud-native solution,…

Accelex, a fintech with an SaaS platform specialising in alternative investment data acquisition, reporting and analytics, has appointed David Watts to its management team as chief commercial officer, reporting to Michael Aldridge, president and chief revenue officer. He was most recently CRO and global head of research at CreditSights before it was sold to Fitch…