There has been a flurry of activity over at ML Capital in the last few months. The company provides a range of UCITS and AIFMD fund solutions to fund managers and currently has over USD1.5 billion of assets under management
Q&A with John Bohan (pictured), Managing Director Europe & Middle East, Apex Fund Services (Ireland). To what extent is Apex FS seeing interest in the QIAIF? And where is that interest largely coming from? The non-UCITS QIF (Qualifying Investor
According to Ken Somerville (pictured), head of business development at Quintillion Limited, Ireland's fund administrators are starting to see real interest among global fund managers, running both hedge funds and private equity funds, as Europe's credit markets continue to be
Ireland remains Europe's leading onshore hedge fund jurisdiction by some margin, yet up until a couple of years ago it could not offer fund sponsors a corporate fund structure similar to the SICAV in Luxembourg. The Irish Government was fully
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has welcomed the common approach adopted by the European Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on the equivalence of central counterparty (CCP) regimes. ESMA Sees this as an important step
National private placement regimes (NPPR) continue to offer the flexibility and ease of access for marketing into Europe that appeal to fund managers, a London funds audience has heard. Speaking at a Guernsey funds masterclass at the British Museum, panellist
Euronext is to contest today's claim and fine by the Autorité des Marchés Financier (AMF), the French regulator, concerning events surrounding the rise of high frequency trading in 2009. Euronext has been fined EUR5 million by AMF, the French market
Crestbridge in Jersey has been approved by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) to provide Management Company (ManCo) solutions to Jersey funds, adding further to its offshore and onshore alternative fund servicing and management capabilities. The award of the licence
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
After initiating a Brexit solution that would have been MiFID based and anchored in Luxembourg, Laven Group has announced it is not pursuing this as a viable solution.
