Category: Independents

Waystone, the Ireland-based administrator, has moved closer to the completion of its proposed acquisition of the Irish and UK businesses of Link Fund Solutions. Certain contractual conditions have been satisfied, with counterparties to LFS contracts, representing the threshold majority of revenue, now agreeing to those contracts being transferred to Waystone on completion of the sale.…

Hex Trust, the Asia-based digital asset custodian, has obtained the Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) registration granted by Autorité des Marchés Financiers and Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution in France. The DASP registration enables Hex Trust to provide services including digital asset custody, the purchase/sale of digital assets for legal tender, and the…

Apex has appointed Qasir Bashir as country head – Denmark. The role was previously held by Peter Toyberg, who will retire later in 2023. In addition to this, Lars Moller Anderson, who co-founded the Private Equity Administrators (latterly part of Sanne Group) business along with Toyberg, has also announced his intention to retire from the…

Vistra, the Asia-based fund and corporate service provider, has completed its merger with Tricor Group. The combined business has >9,000 professionals in 50+ jurisdictions. Simon Webster, who joined Vistra in 2022 as CEO, becomes CEO of the combined business. Kim Jenkins, Tricor’s CEO, has been appointed as COO. The merged entity, headquartered in Hong Kong,…

The European Depositary Bank, the Luxembourg-headquartered provider of banking, depositary and custody solutions owned by Apex, has been appointed by Aarna Capital Limited to provide digital banking solutions. Aarna Capital is a multi-asset brokerage firm, operating from Abu Dhabi Global Markets, offering clients access to futures, options, FX, bullion, equities, CFDs and fixed income products.

Blackwattle Investment Partners, a start-up Australian equity investment manager, has chosen Equity Trustees to be the responsible entity (trustee) for its first range of Australian equity funds: the Blackwattle Small Cap Quality Fund, Blackwattle Large Cap Quality Fund, Blackwattle Mid Cap Quality Fund and Blackwattle Long-short 130/30 Quality Fund.

Socium Fund Services, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Suntera Global, has implemented the Sentry loan portfolio management technology from Broadridge. Socium is a private capital and credit fund administration firm. Sentry is a scalable web-based solution that captures, calculates, and analyses the borrower’s KPIs, monitors the pipeline, improves credit selection, and creates reusable covenant rules. As…