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The Citco Group of Companies (Citco) has launched CitcoConnect, a new digital solution that automates and simplifies the process of managing prospective investors, including an online utility for the placement of initial investments in alternative funds.
The solution features a flexible data room, dedicated to and managed by each Investment Manager, supporting capital raising and reporting as well as digitised initial subscription documentation functionality with embedded analytics.
CitcoConnect is a stand-alone solution that offers managers full control over which materials prospective investors have access to – including how they interact with such documents – through a secure and flexible
By George Kaye, Derivitec – Much has been written about the cloud and its impact on the financial industry, yet still the ‘cloud’ remains as nebulous a concept (pardon the pun) as Big Data or Artificial Intelligence. Nonetheless, the cloud is indeed one of the most important, if not the most important, technological innovations of this century. Naturally, as someone who has formed an entire business leveraging the near limitless potential of the cloud for effective risk management, I might be expected to hold such a view, but in this short article I will attempt to justify it. I hope, by
Technology risk cannot be underestimated, especially in today’s regulatory environment where GDPR rules place a heavy burden on securely protecting and storing personal data. Yet establishing a technology risk framework tends not to be a top priority for some hedge fund and private equity managers.
However, those who do take it seriously are moving their security posture beyond merely protecting the four walls of their organisation and more towards protecting the individual, cognisant that reputational damage – largely as a result of human behaviour – is only ever just round the corner. This mobile first thinking pushes managers to look
In a recent report on data analytics, Hedgeweek explored how sophisticated technology tools are being deployed by fund administrators like SEI to enhance the investor experience as well as within the front-office of fund management groups to improve portfolio and risk management.
In that report, Tobias True, Partner and member of the Portfolio Construction Committee at Adams Street Partners, a leading private equity group, explained that as the world continues to evolve around the use of data and the ability to map out different relationships, it has led to an evolution of the process in terms of how Adams Street uses
Watson Wheatley, a provider of reconciliation solutions, has integrated its iRecs reconciliation solutions with Orchestrade’s core portfolio management and risk system.
The connection creates a standard interface for Orchestrade clients who wish to leverage the iRecs reconciliation system to solve complex reconciliation issues and increase operational efficiency. Watson Wheatley’s growing client base will derive many benefits from the connection including robust data delivery, standardised support and faster onboarding.
Tom Wheatley (pictured), COO at Watson Wheatley, says: “Alternative asset managers, especially those with complex requirements, have found it hard to find a provider that offers the complete cross-asset front-to-back office
Bloomberg’s flagship real-time market data feed, B-PIPE, is now available on the cloud, offering customers a high-performance solution that delivers instant and reliable access to crucial trading data.
B-PIPE is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and gives clients access to the same consolidated, normalised market data available through the Bloomberg Terminal, without any change in precision, quality or reliability. With B-PIPE accessible via on-premise, hosted, and now on the cloud, clients can choose their preferred deployment method for real-time data delivery.
Data is a vital part of the decision-making process in the front office, and enterprise applications require flexible,
eVestment, a specialist in institutional data and analytics, has expanded its popular quarterly institutional stock ownership report to include stock holdings information for companies based in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, in addition to the list highlighting the most widely held stocks globally.
The most recent report, based on data from eVestment’s Holdings Analysis solution, shows that US-based firms Microsoft, Google parent company Alphabet and Apple, in that order, are the top three most widely owned stocks globally in the institutional investment business. Several international firms also made the global top 20 list, including Royal Dutch Shell, Alibaba, Taiwan
Bitstamp, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume in Europe, is to implement the Irisium market monitoring platform.
Bitstamp has been a pioneer in crypto security and regulation since its inception in 2011. The exchange places an emphasis on customer protection through KYC/AML procedures, advanced security software and protocols. Its positive stance towards self-regulation paved the way for Bitstamp’s Luxembourg entity (Bitstamp Europe SA) to become the first crypto exchange with a payment institution license in the EU. It is among the four cryptocurrency exchanges that have provided pricing data for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) cryptocurrency indices since 2016.
BSO, an Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider for financial institutions and high-frequency trading firms, has launched its official partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
As an official AWS technology partner, BSO is delivering high-performance, reliable, secure, direct private connectivity to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud from multiple data centres, offices and co-location environments via the dedicated AWS Direct Connect Service (DCS).
Customers are able to connect to AWS on-demand cloud and on-demand service resources from any of the 100+ PoPs currently on BSO’s global backbone. BSO are working with clients, wishing to scale and grow their businesses,
VTFinTech, a technology provider of index management and research evaluation services, has appointed Amar Rajani to its Board with immediate effect.
Rajani is the Founder and Managing Director of Argella, an advisory firm specialising in fintech with specialist knowledge in research, data and analytics. Prior to launching Argella, Amar spent 17 years at Bloomberg LP, where he was responsible for a range of products that serviced its core buy and sell-side clients.
Vishnu Thurpati, CEO of VTFinTech, says: “Amar’s knowledge and experience of portfolio, data and research workflows is invaluable for us as we grow VTFinTech’s core research
