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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 office’s founding partners.
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 Scholes partners, which includes Deribit, D2X and Bybit.
Founded in 2021, Block Scholes is headquartered in London, UK, and is led and backed by financial industry veterans with extensive experience in investment banks, hedge funds and the fintech sector.
RFA, a specialist IT provider to the alternative investment sector, has enhanced its cyber security offering for hedge and private equity funds with the addition of external surface attack management and dark web breach and exposure monitoring solutions.
External attack surface management provides visibility and risk assessment for organisations’ PKI (public key infrastructure), Cloud, DNS (domain name system), mail and web internet-facing infrastructures along the digital supply chain as well as any vendors implicated in these infrastructures.
Dark web breach and exposure monitoring meanwhile, looks for exposed employee logins and PII (personally identifiable information) against a global repository of recovered
There are significant obstacles to further development of the crypto and digital assets industry. But hope comes in the form of improved transparency and multi-party supervision, which are critical to the journey of the space going forward. This can be delivered through a hybrid platform which sees centralised and decentralised finance working together towards a common goal.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s Alternative Investment Product service has reached a new milestone, successfully processing over 500 million transactions since its inception as service adoption continues to increase.Â
Intercontinental Exchange, a global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, has expanded the ICE Global Network in the Asia Pacific region, with new access centres in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.Â
Kaufman Rossin Alternative Investment Services, a full-service fund administrator that provides outsourced fund administration, tax, regulatory, audit and advisory services to the alternative investment industry, is using the Fund Recs Velocity platform to automate cash and position .
Third Bridge, an investment research company serving private equity funds, hedge funds, mutual funds and management consulting firms, has launched Maps, a new way to visualise public and private company value chains in a single view, helping investors fast-track early-stage research within minutes.
Third Bridge currently has almost 10k Maps featuring over 100,000 companies and coverage is growing rapidly. Each value chain map illustrates an entity’s key structure, suppliers, customers, and competitors, allowing investors to prioritise their research focus and navigate through Third Bridge’s integrated content platform.
Maps are created by Third Bridge analysts who conduct in-depth profiling sessions
According to a Hedgeweek global survey, 82% of fund managers suggested capital raising is the biggest barrier they face. But like many sales related activities, it’s a numbers game. The more people you touch, the greater chance you have of raising capital. Managing the capital raising process in a structured and professional way maximizes your chance of successfully achieving your fundraising goals.Â
Dalma Capital Group, a global alternative investment management platform and advisor, is to acquire The Global CIO Office, an independent, outsourced chief investment officer services business with a global network of investment professionals.
The Global CIO Office will become the Dalma Global CIO Office, completing Dalma Capital’s service offering and creating a full-service integrated platform for funds, investment banking and wealth advisory.
The Dalma Global CIO Office will operate as a segregated arm of Dalma Capital and provide professional clients with independent advice and portfolio management expertise. It will initially service clients with a minimum account size of $50 million.
