Category: Independents

Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration services to Adit Ventures’ new Irish-domiciled Investment Limited Partnership fund. Services include fund accounting, investor services and audit assistance. Adit recently appointed two JTC-owned firms to provide AIFM and depositary services to the fund.

Sharegain, a UK-registered securities finance fintech, has raised USD64m in a series B round led by WestCap and joined by Citi, EJF Capital LLC and Optiver PSI. Participating existing investors include Maverick Ventures Israel, Blumberg Capital, SixThirty, Rhodium, and the Kessler family office.

Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration and transfer agency services for the NEOR Crypto Volatility Fund. NEOR is a long/short quantitative algo crypto vol trading fund with strategies based on artificial intelligence combined with deep-learning models aimed at identifying trading opportunities by digesting real-time data from multiple sources. Eagle Eye Finance Sàrl is…

Charles River Development, a State Street company, has formed an alliance with Precisely, a data integrity specialist. Precisely’s data governance solution, Data360 Govern, will be incorporated into the State Street Alpha data platform to provide streamlined governance, lineage, and cataloguing capabilities.

JTC Americas (formerly NES Financial) has entered into an agreement with VENTURE.co Holdings, Inc. to deliver an improved investor onboarding process. VENTURE.co is a U.S.-based software-as-a-service company offering an integrated virtual data room, distribution management tools, and automated document processing for fund and private equity sponsors, broker-dealers and RIA firms. JTC Americas is the North…

IQ-EQ, the Luxembourg-based provider of fund and corporate services, has named Matt Okolita as global head of outsourced business services. Okolita previously led Greyline Partners LLC, a regulatory, compliance and governance consultancy which was acquired by IQ-EQ in 2021. Okolita will report to Mark Fordyce, regional CEO, Americas, and will join the IQ-EQ U.S. executive…

Apex Group has acquired BEST Alternative Advisory Services, an India-based financial services provider. BEST will add AuA of USD30bn to the Apex Group, and an additional 35 employees based in Mumbai, India. BEST delivers fund services for open and closed-ended fund client profiles including private equity, fund of funds, mutual funds, managed accounts and hedge…

Ultimus Fund Solutions, a U.S.-based independent provider of fund administration, accounting and investor solutions, has reported a nearly 150pct increase in the number of ETFs serviced since 2020. Ultimus now claims to be the third largest named ETF administrator in the U.S., based on the number of ETF sponsors it supports.