DMS Offshore Investment Services specialises in providing global fund governance with the firm best regarded for the provision of offshore independent directors in the Cayman Islands. The second core business line is its UCITS and AIFMD management company and platform
According to Stephen Burke, Managing Director, EMEA, at Cordium, one of the world's leading regulatory compliance consultancies, regulation has changed the fund market. There is much more complexity and both investors and regulators are more exacting. This has led to
Oligo Swiss Fund Services received its license from the Swiss authorities 13 months ago to provide Swiss legal representative services and has already onboarded more than 200 funds registered for distribution to Swiss qualified investors. These include offshore hedge funds,
Two years ago, in recognition of the regulatory burden facing Swiss fund managers, Pfaeffikon-headquartered Etops, an independent operational service provider for hedge funds and investors like family offices and wealth managers, combined forces with Deloitte to develop a unique solution
One of the primary reasons for investment managers choosing to use regulatory hosted services such as those provided by Mirabella, part of the Cordium group, is because of the time it takes regulators to approve manager applications; sometimes up to
Regulatory reporting remains a pertinent issue for a lot of fund managers under AIFMD. One of the attractions of going with a fully outsourced AIFM, which can also provide sub-fund capabilities for those dipping their toe into Europe, is that
Cappitech has formed an alliance with IHS Markit to deliver the IHS Markit Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) solution. The IHS Markit SFTR solution will integrate Cappitech’s award-winning platform Capptivate to offer a solution that will meet the industry’s SFTR
Thomson Reuters has integrated and enhanced its robust research capabilities on its flagship financial desktop Eikon to help financial institutions manage impending MiFID II research unbundling requirements, set to be implemented in January 2018. These are part of a series of
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA) Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC) have published a joint paper analysing how and why leverage is used in investment funds in Europe, how firms
Cordium, a provider of governance, risk and compliance services, has expanded its Cybersecurity and Data Protection Consulting Services to the UK to help investment firms prepare for and manage the requirements of the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which
