Category: FinTech

HSBC has launched new custody and fund administration technology and an operating model for tax transparent funds (TTFs), where ‘look-through’ is applied at the share class level for securities lending, in what it claims to be a market first. This approach improves the tax transparency of securities lending opportunities in TTFs for institutional investors, while…

Société Générale Securities Services has launched Fund Alerts, a real-time liability fund management and liquidity risk prevention solution for asset managers. The service provides an instantaneous view of fund liability movements via various customised alerts across the following times: In real-time on subscription orders or redemptions received At closure of the fund on the inflow/outflow…

Deutsche Börse AG, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Genstar Capital LLC have reached an agreement for Deutsche Börse to acquire a majority share of approximately 80pct in ISS, valuing ISS at USD2,275m (EUR1,925m). Genstar Capital and current management will continue to hold a stake of approximately 20pct. The transaction is expected to close in the…

FNZ, a global wealth management platform with over EUR700bn in assets under administration, has agreed to acquire South African third-party administrator Silica from Ninety One. Silica was established by Ninety One (then Investec Asset Management) in 1999 and provides third-party administration and related technology solutions to asset managers and investment product providers (including Ninety One)…

U.S. Bank, the fifth largest bank in the U.S. and one of the world’s top 10 custodians, has adopted the SEI Wealth Platform (SWP) across its wealth management and investment services group. SWP is a fully integrated, single-infrastructure technology solution that supports a digital experience for wealth managers and their clients. U.S. Bank will migrate…

RepRisk, an ESG data science firm based in Switzerland, and Apex, a global financial services provider, have entered into a strategic partnership to expand access to material ESG risk data for private markets participants. Apex manages the independent collection of data for investors from their underlying portfolio investments to deliver real time ESG analysis. Apex’s…

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…