At CIBC Mellon, Richard Anton has been appointed chief client officer, with Catherine Thrasher replacing him as chief operations officer. Anton assumes overall responsibility for the company’s relationship management, strategic client solutions, product development, corporate communications and marketing functions. Thrasher assumes responsibility for CIBC Mellon’s operations, including custody services, fund administration, investor recordkeeping, pension benefit…
Month: March 2024
BK and GLMX collaborate on repo
BNY Mellon and GLMX have integrated services to allow buy-side clients to direct repo trades at point of execution to BNY Mellon’s triparty platform. This integration addresses growing demand from clients seeking to expand their BNY Mellon triparty usage beyond uncleared margin segregation into repo financing, helping them to capture more benefits from being on…
Citco upgrades Waterfall tool
Citco has upgraded its Citco Waterfall tool to enable real assets fund clients to automate complex carried interest waterfalls for funds and joint ventures. The new functionality covers unrealised/hypothetical distributions, realised cash distributions and scenario/projection calculations, as well as providing allocation of deal specific carried interest calculations.
SS&C opens in ADGM
SS&C has opened an office in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Financial Services Regulatory Authority has granted SS&C approval to deliver fund administration services within the Abu Dhabi Global Market. Katarzyna Lupa-Nowicka (head of private markets operations, Middle East) and David Forrester (head of hedge operations, Middle East) will lead the new office.
Alger consolidates with Waystone
Waystone, the European provider of specialist services to the global asset management industry, has been appointed by Alger, a U.S.-based growth equity asset manager, to provide third-party ManCo and supplementary services across the EEA. The mandate will add USD600m to Waystone’s AuM. Additional services include risk and compliance reporting, distribution support, market access, global registrations,…
Citco launches reclaims analytics
Citco has launched a new service designed to help fund managers review and assess potential withholding tax reclaims for their end investors. Citco Withholding Tax Reclaims Analysis provides insights into the costs, benefits, and likelihood of success of reclaims in different jurisdictions globally.
BBH automates with Allfunds
BBH has automated account openings with Allfunds, a B2B wealthtech platform for the fund management industry. This digital and automated solution from BBH creates a standardised electronic messaging system to facilitate the end-to-end, straight-through processing API account opening solution, resulting in a much faster account opening time. By digitizing this process, users of the platform…
FundGuard raises USD100m
FundGuard, the cloud-native, AI-powered, multi-asset class investment accounting platform for asset managers, asset owners, custodians and fund administrators, has closed its Series C funding round, amounting to USD100m. This latest round of investment – led by Key1 Capital and new investors including Euclidean Capital and funds managed by Hamilton Lane – also had participation from…
Zurich launches ELTIF
Zurich Insurance Group has launched its first European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF 2.0), aimed at providing individual investors and life insurance customers with access to opportunities in the private debt asset class. The fund is a sub-fund of Zurich Global Private Asset Solutions SICAV S.A. and is intended to be the first in a series…
CRD wins f/o mandate in Australia
Charles River Development, a State Street company, has been appointed by Perpetual Group to manage front office operations for its Australian asset management business. Perpetual’s Australian asset management business will adopt Charles River IMS to manage its domestic and global portfolios, order and execution, compliance, post trade processing and front office data. Perpetual completed the…