Interview with James Alexander, Commercial Officer at Invast Global How is bank regulation helping Invast Global win market share from traditional prime brokerages? There is no doubt that the suite of bank focused regulations has been a tailwind for Invast.
UK investors have moved a net GBP62 billion of their fund investments outside the UK since the Brexit referendum in June 2016, according to the latest Fund Flow Index (FFI) from global funds transaction network Calastone. In March 2019 alone,
Northern Trust has been appointed by US investment manager Corry Capital Advisors (CCA) to support its expansion into Europe and distribution of its longevity-based life settlement strategies to new investors. Northern Trust will provide fund administration and depositary solutions for
iCapital Network, a financial technology platform aiming to improving access and efficiency in the alternative investment marketplace, is to enter into an exclusive relationship with The Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) to create an integrated secondary marketplace for iCapital sponsored funds
Hedge funds concluded 2017 with the strongest capital inflows since Q2 2015, driving total assets to new record, while completing the first performance year without a monthly decline since 2003; according to the latest HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report.
Hedge fund managers are putting their prime brokers under continued pressure to be more transparent and open with respect to how they set their revenue targets and how they determine their costs for stock lending, commission rates, and margin finance.
Optima Partners, a global regulatory compliance firm, has promoted Director Sani Jackson to Partner. Jackson has had an impressive career in providing regulatory advisory services to hedge funds, private equity firms, investment banks, broker-dealers and other financial services firms across
One of the clearest manifestations of technology innovation is the way in which it is enhancing transparency in all aspects of the investment funds industry, from front-office portfolio analytics and trading cost analysis, middle-office investor reporting, to back-office compliance and
Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing technology, is to acquire Percentile, a provider of real-time, cloud-based risk and compliance technology to global financial markets. The Percentile risk management solution will form a component of Torstone’s platform.
There was a sharp increase recorded in private debt fund activity in France in 2018 confirming the growing importance of private debt in financing methods, by offering companies and equity investors an alternative and complementary financing solution to bank debt.
