Apex has appointed Felix Edgren as regional head of corporate product – Nordics. Based in Sweden and reporting to HP van Asselt, global head of corporate products & growth, Edgren will be responsible for leading the delivery and growth of Apex’s corporate services, business services and capital markets services in the Nordic region, as well…
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Apex appoints Goji for onboarding
Apex has appointed Goji, a UK-regulated fintech offering investors digital access to alternative investments, to enable alternative asset management clients to manage all stages of the investor lifecycle. Apex’s digital onboarding solution, powered by Goji, provides alternative fund managers with the ability to onboard their investors from any jurisdiction via a single, secure online platform,…
Fnality & HQLAx complete DVP repo PoC
Fnality and HQLAᵡ have completed the first PoC DvP repo settlement across the Fnality Payment System (FnPS) and HQLAᵡ’s Digital Collateral Registry, bridging the DLTs of Enterprise Ethereum and R3 Corda. The proof of concept was supported by the project participants – Banco Santander, Goldman Sachs and UBS – and achieved by connecting HQLAᵡ with…
Northern Trust partners with Saphyre
Northern Trust and Saphyre have automated the account opening process for clients of Northern Trust’s investment operations outsourcing business. The two firms collaborated on the solution, which provides a dynamic middle-office function to increase transparency and efficiency for events including account setup, account maintenance and asset transfer requests.
Broadridge & SLIB extend voting service
Broadridge, the U.S.-based fintech, and SLIB, a software editor for electronic voting and securities services based in France, have gone live with their joint end-to-end global voting solution. The deal builds on the cross-border proxy voting service for France-based investors that hold international shares, launched by Broadridge and SLIB in 2021.
CACEIS partners with Sismo
CACEIS, the European asset servicing group, and Sismo, a French fintech, have formed a partnership to offer a new solution for portfolio analysis and optimisation, as well as investment strategy development. The Sismo web platform is available through the CACEIS Connect Store. Sismo’s solution offers data visualisation and an advanced comparative analysis tool.
Kneip and Next Gate form alliance
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.
73 Strings partners with A&M
73 Strings and Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) have signed a partner program agreement to deliver 73 Strings’ portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions to their mutual clients. Collaborating on shared international clients, the firms will jointly support the configuration and implementation of 73 Strings’ platform. 73 Strings digitises alternative investments by combining its corporate finance and…
SimCorp partners with AccessFintech
SimCorp, a Europe-based provider of SaaS investment management software, and AccessFintech, the data normalisation and workflow network, have established a partnership that will connect AccessFintech’s Synergy Network with SimCorp’s Asset Service Hub. This collaboration will enable SimCorp’s clients to better access and visualise data through aggregation and normalisation. AccessFintech’s Synergy Network improves data quality and…
Zodia expands token coverage
Zodia Custody, the UK-based digital asset custodian, has expanded its token coverage with the addition of Uniswap (UNI), USD Coin (USDC), and Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). Zodia is a service provided by Standard Chartered, with Northern Trust as a co-investor.