Block Scholes, an institutional grade crypto analytics, data and research platform, has formed a new partnership with India-based cryptocurrency exchange, Bitbns, allowing the exchange’s users to access Block Scholes’ data analytics and visualisations. Bitbns joins a growing portfolio of Block
The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic has started to bite. The IMF’s World Economic Outlook as at October 2022 records a broad-based and sharper-than-expected slowdown in global economic activity. Inflation is at decades high levels. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and
There is correspondingly less commentary on the inevitable corollary: the end. What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning (T.S. Eliot). Funds come to an end for a multitude
Global law firm K&L Gates has opened a new office in Dublin, its 48th office worldwide and ninth in Europe. The launch includes the hiring of asset management and investment funds lawyers Gayle Bowen, Shane Geraghty, and Michelle Lloyd as
The alternative investment industry is developing new ways of sharing data across the whole value chain – from portfolio companies and holdings to funds and investors – and from asset servicers to asset managers and asset owners. Luxembourg, as a
With the increasing popularity of alternative investments, in particular in the areas of private equity, private debt and real estate, we have witnessed that there is more demand in realising such investments via Luxembourg alternative investment fund structures (the “AIFs”)
It’s nearly a year since the ICARA regime was first introduced in the UK by the FCA, replacing the ICAAP framework that was part of the previous prudential regime.
Options Technology, a capital markets services provider, has partnered with Tools for Brokers following a successful integration with recently acquired ACTIV Financial’s ACTIV application programming interface (API).
Apex Group Ltd, a global financial services provider, has acquired Pacific Fund Systems, a global fund administration software business serving open and closed ended traditional and alternative funds, including hedge funds and private equity investment vehicles, from co-founders and Pollen
Formidium, a provider of third-party fund administration and back-office technology solutions, has launched Crypto Fund Tax, a full suite of tax services, including tax allocations, reporting, and filings for funds invested in digital assets. Crypto Fund Tax is aimed at
