Category: Independents

SS&C has acquired Complete Financial Ops, Inc. Fund Services, a Colorado-based fund administration firm. CFO Fund Services delivers fund administration to private equity funds and family offices. Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. The acquisition adds 25 clients and eight employees.

The Maples Group has appointed Jorge Pérez Lozano as head of fiduciary services in Luxembourg. He joins from Amicorp, where he was COO. Regulated by the CSSF, the group’s Luxembourg office provides fiduciary, fund and entity formation and management services to a range of Luxembourg vehicles and clients, including corporations, banks, and structured finance arrangers,…

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., a financial services and investment management provider in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors, intends to acquire GK8, a secure institutional digital asset self-custody platform. The acquisition will be the result of a sale process executed in connection with Celsius Network LLC‘s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is subject to…

Blume Equity, a European climate-tech growth investor, has appointed IQ-EQ to support its maiden fund launch. IQ-EQ Luxembourg will support the new fund with administration, depositary and ManCo services under AIFMD. The team will also provide the GP with a range of corporate services. In addition, IQ-EQ’s UK business is providing regulatory hosting services.

Altum Group, a C.I.-based provider of fund, corporate, and family office solutions, has assisted HackCapital with the launch of its securitisation platform in Luxembourg. HackCapital is building an impact-investment marketplace that provides access to venture capital and accelerates investment into food, climate and health solutions globally.

Kneip, a provider of fund-level data management and regulatory reporting, and Next Gate Tech, a fintech specialising in portfolio-level data management and analytics, have formed a commercial partnership to bring together both companies’ expertise in fund data management. Both businesses are based in Luxembourg. Earlier this year Kneip was acquired by Deutsche Börse.

Jupiter Asset Management, the UK-based investment management group with GBP47bn (USD57bn) AuM, has extended its transfer agency contract with SS&C. SS&C provides TA services to Jupiter’s unit trusts and has now taken on Jupiter’s OEIC fund range, acquired in 2020 as part of its Merian Global Investors acquisition. The value of funds administered by SS&C…