Category: Alts

JTC, the C.I.-based-based professional services business, has acquired New York-headquartered Essential Fund Services. EFS provides services in the alternative assets space, including accounting, reporting and administration to investment partnerships and their investment managers. The acquisition of EFS follows JTC’s recent purchase of SALI Fund Services, and the 2020 acquisition of NES. EFS provides services to…

Deutsche Börse has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Crypto Finance, a FINMA-regulated provider of trading, custody, and investment services for digital assets. Jan Brzezek, CEO and co-founder of Crypto Finance, and the current management team will continue to lead Crypto Finance and retain a significant stake in the company. Crypto Finance will…

Vistra, the Singapore-based administrator, has launched a new investor servicing portal, VFunds 2.0, which is powered by Eleven, a fintech provider. The launch includes the migration of Vistra’s entire U.S. business to VFunds 2.0. Vistra is now rolling out VFunds 2.0 to clients around the world. The rollout of VFunds 2.0 focuses on Eleven’s document…

Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration, investor reporting and investor portal services to RailField Partners, a multifamily investment and asset management firm. Apex will support RailField’s fund accounting needs for its first institutional LP funds. Based in the U.S., RailField has partnerships with a wide range of investors including family offices, pension funds…

Anchorage Digital, a U.S.-based digital assets servicer, has hired Camilla Churcher as its head of sales. She was most recently at cryptonative lending platform, Celsius, where she was global head of business development, and has experience in traditional prime brokerage sales at Credit Suisse and Bank of America. Anchorage received an industry-first federal bank charter…

Adams Street Partners, a U.S.-based private markets investment firm with >USD49bn AuM, has deployed a real-time ESG data analytics solution from Apex to provide insights into underlying fund and private company investments. The Apex analytics platform securely processes a variety of ESG data streams to provide tailored insights during investment and operational due diligence. Adams…

Melanion Capital, a French asset management company regulated by the AMF, has launched a bitcoin ETF under the UCITS banner. The Melanion BTC Equities Universe UCITS ETF was launched on Euronext in October 2021 Melanion worked with SGSS throughout the planning and product design phase, which took two years, and subsequently appointed the bank as…

BBVA Switzerland’s crypto asset service has added ether (ETH) to the investment portfolio, enabling private banking clients and customers with a New Gen account to manage both bitcoins and this cryptocurrency. On the BBVA app, they can view these digital assets along with other traditional investments. They can also automatically be converted to euros, dollars…