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,
It is now one year in to the Swiss Collective Investment Scheme Act (CISA) and overall impressions appear to be that it has been a success. One particular aspect of CISA, namely the requirement for alternative fund managers marketing their
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
There was a degree of trepidation among foreign hedge funds when Switzerland formerly introduced a revised version of the Collective Investment Scheme Act (CISA) on 1 March 2015, bringing hedge funds under the watch of FINMA, Switzerland's financial regulator, for the
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has filed a comment letter addressing the automated trading rules, known as Regulation AT, proposed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). “MFA Members support the CFTC’s goal of modernising regulatory oversight of futures trading
Ahead of the deadline for full implementation of UCITS V on Friday (18 March), Matt Gibbs (pictured), product manager at Linedata, comments on the impact of the introduction of a published register of non-compliant firms… With changes introduced under UCITS
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
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) has unanimously approved proposed rules that mark a comprehensive regulatory response to the evolution of automated trading on US designated contract markets (DCMs). The proposed rules, known collectively as Regulation Automated Trading or
Solvency II regulation, which is aimed at European insurance providers to improve transparency on the cost of capital related to their underlying assets – think of it as Basel III for insurers – is set to make managed accounts an
