Year: 2020

The Carlyle Group has led a preferred equity investment for Apex Group, the Bermuda-based global financial services provider. Apex will use the capital to support ongoing growth and acquisition activities, including its previously announced acquisitions of Luxembourg-based FundRock and Banco Modal’s alternative fund administration business in Brazil. Carlyle recently agreed to buy a majority stake…

EFA, the Luxembourg-based administrator which has AuA of EUR136bn (USD162bn), has been appointed to provide fund administration services to a newly launched fund from Piquemal Houghton, a Paris-based asset manager registered with the AMF. The Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS fund has been approved by the CSSF. EFA will provide services including NAV calculation, risk and compliance, performance…

Ultimus Fund Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of fund administration, accounting and investor solutions, has released uETF, part of the firm’s uSUITE framework. Designed to streamline and add functionality to the firm’s ETF processing capability, one of the key features of uETF is its ability to send nightly portfolio composition files, essential to ETFs, in a…

Alter Domus has deployed the Yardi Investment Management platform to streamline reporting for cross-border real estate investment structures. Alter Domus will also use Yardi Debt Management, a module developed specifically to add loan servicing capabilities to the integrated accounting and reporting tool. Alongside its inhouse client portal, CorPro, the Yardi solutions are embedded into Alter…

UNICEF, the first UN organisation to accept, hold and disburse donations in the form of the cryptocurrencies, is seeking expressions of interest from cryptocurrency custodians for the provision of custodian services for cryptocurrencies contributed to UNICEF. Interested institutions should complete and submit the EOI form, which is available on the UNICEF website, by December 4,…

Apex, the Bermuda-based financial services provider, has launched LRI Investment Management Services (ME) Ltd. in the Abu Dhabi Global Market, following full regulatory approval by the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority. LRI Middle East will offer third-party ManCo services to Qualified Investor Funds and Exempt Funds.

Thuso Incubation Partners (Pty) Ltd, a South Africa-based majority black-owned asset manager and incubation specialist, has selected Prescient Fund Services (Pty) Ltd as the fund administrator for its fund of private equity funds and associated incubation program. Thuso, which is backed by Ke Nako Capital, a South African-domiciled mid-market private equity specialist, was established in…