Category: Alts

Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management, the newly established Luxembourg wealth management branch of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, has appointed Universal Investment Group as ManCo for its UCITS SICAV portfolio in Luxembourg. UI efa will act as central administrator, and the Spuerkeess, a Luxembourg-based savings bank, as the custodian. The SICAV portfolio has been migrated to the…

Northern Trust has upgraded its platform to support asset managers who trade spots, forwards, futures and physical contracts in energy and physical commodities. The new energy and physical commodities offering will be available through Omnium, Northern Trust’s middle office and accounting platform.

Vistra, the Singapore-based administrator, has appointed Andrew Cherry as group chief financial officer. Initially based in Luxembourg before moving to Singapore, he will succeed Hilton Hess, CFO since 2020, who is retiring. Cherry joins from Alter Domus, where he was CFO for five years.

State Street has signed an agreement with Taurus SA, the Switzerland-based provider of digital asset infrastructure, to deliver digital assets capabilities for State Street’s clients. Subject to receipt of applicable regulatory approvals, State Street will leverage Taurus’ custody, tokenisation and node management solutions to automate the issuance and servicing of digital assets, including digital securities…

Komainu, the C.I.-based digital asset services provider, is to provide custody for BlackRock’s BUIDL Token. The BUIDL Token – BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund – is a tokenised fund created by BlackRock. Operating on the Ethereum blockchain, BUIDL offers institutional investors exposure to U.S. dollar yields through tokenisation. By tokenising a U.S. dollar fund,…

Amicorp Fund Services, the Hong Kong-based fund services group, has added Clive Short to its team in Luxembourg. Short, with nearly twenty years’ experience in managing or supporting pan-European PERE funds, joins the team as commercial director. Prior to joining Amicorp, he worked in investment management for Barings, Deutsche Bank and AXA Investment Managers, before…

Gemini, the digital asset service provider, has been appointed as the custodian for Path Crypto’s Managed Portfolios, a robo-advisor investment platform that offers tailored digital investment strategies for retail and institutional investors. Path Crypto, a registered SEC investment advisor, recently launched the Managed Portfolios program in the U.S. and has plans to expand internationally later…