Category: Offshore

Maples Group has supported Warba Bank with launch of USD200m Islamic fund. Warba, a Kuwait-based bank with a track record in Islamic finance, has expanded its global investment product offering by establishing a Cayman Islands-based Shariah-compliant structure to allocate capital to its newly established Warba Islamic Income Fund with the assistance of Maples Group and…

Universal Investment Group (UI), the Germany-based fund services platform and Super ManCo, has appointed Jeremy Albrecht as its new CEO for Luxembourg. In this role, he will be responsible for heading UI’s Luxembourg platform, which consists of both UI Luxembourg, the largest AIFM and third party ManCo in Luxembourg, and fund administrator UI efa. He…

SEI has appointed three leaders in Luxembourg, reporting to Ian MacWilliams, managing director of SEI’s Luxembourg office. Claire Matteucci serves as head of depositary, overseeing depositary services, which SEI recently launched in Luxembourg. Matteucci most recently was head of depositary for Standish Management Luxembourg, Manuel Martin de Rosales is conducting officer, responsible for compliance and…

SEI has launched depositary services for Luxembourg alternative investment funds. SEI provides depositary services to more than 430 funds from other fund centres. SEI claims to be the largest fund administrator for private market funds in Luxembourg that are managed by a U.S. firm, and the largest private credit fund administrator by assets globally.

Waystone, the European provider of specialist services to the global asset management industry, has appointed Nigel Pasea as country head for the Middle East. He joined Waystone in 2021 as part of the acquisition of CCL Compliance, and has been leading the company’s compliance solutions business in the UAE. Waystone currently employs 45 people in…