Outsourcing
5 June 2023
State of substance
How are GPs giving their firms the necessary mass to operate in Luxembourg?
5 June 2023
Amicorp FS seeks to scale up through London listing
Fund administration firm Amicorp FS plans London listing and global expansion
5 June 2023
Burges Salmon hires funds and financial regulations director
Jennifer Mellor has joined Burges Salmon as a director in its funds and financial regulations team
5 June 2023
IQ-EQ partners with Novata
The partnership aims to incorporate Novata’s ESG data solution into IQ-EQ’s existing services
2 June 2023
PE firms better at shifting costs of W&I
Some 17% of PE deals saw sellers pay an insurance premium, compared to just 2% in non-PE deals
1 June 2023
What the AI?! Canoe Intelligence
Our new AI series kicks off by exploring the burning questions with Aman Soni, VP of data strategy at Canoe Intelligence
31 May 2023
Apex launches fundraising services
Offering combines rebranded platform with series of events
30 May 2023
The conversation: Are you prepared? Liquidity strategies in a turbulent market
The Drawdown hosted a webinar to discuss how managers can respond to liquidity and risk management challenges that have been thrown into sharp focus in recent weeks
26 May 2023
Former Sanne execs set up new fund admin business
Ex-Sanne senior leaders have launched Palmer Street, with £8m backing from Marwyn Value Investors
25 May 2023
Hatcher+ launches funds platform
Funds-as-a-service software provides end-to-end fund administration, powered by AI
25 May 2023
Deep dive on Alpha’s fund finance solution
Following the recent announcement of Alpha Group’s new fund finance solution, we sit down with Sam Marsh, MD institutional, and Adam Heaysman, who is heading up the new offering, to find out more
24 May 2023
5 minutes with… Phil Westcott, co-founder and CEO of Filament Syfter
We sat down with the co-founder and CEO to learn how his company builds the beating heart of GPs’ investment strategy – their data infrastructure
24 May 2023
TrustQuay merges with Viewpoint
Companies hope to cover wider regulatory environments and enhance global customer service
24 May 2023
Chronograph partners with Snowflake
Partnership launches connectivity-as-a-service to consolidate and analyse portfolio monitoring data
24 May 2023
ACA Group appoints CEO
Blackrock’s former chief product officer Patrick Olson steps into the role
23 May 2023
Accelex launches portfolio analytics platform
The platform aims to provide visibility and automated data analysis on portfolio funds, commitments and underlying assets
23 May 2023
Shearman & Sterling merges with Allen & Overy
Firms hope to capitalise on combined private capital practices, among others
22 May 2023
Travers Smith appoints co-heads of ESG and impact
Doug Bryden and Heather Gagen will lead the ESG and impact group, chaired by Simon Witney
19 May 2023
FFP launches fund admin business
Company’s new business line will service clients in the Cayman Islands
18 May 2023
Profile: Matt Harrison, Stanley Capital
The firm's CFO discusses the way technology helps influence investment decisions and how his firm uses AI to drive portfolio company growth
17 May 2023
Survey: How is your digital transformation progressing?
The digital transformation of private capital funds continues to gather pace – The Drawdown, in partnership with IQ-EQ, is once again taking the pulse of the private capital fund market's digital transformation
16 May 2023
Suntera acquires Carey
Acquisition is a bid to broaden Suntera’s services offering and bolster the company’s fund admin capabilities
16 May 2023
Ontra launches contract negotiation tool
AI-powered offering should speed up negotiations while decreasing their associated costs
15 May 2023
European Fund Administration rebrands to ‘efa’
Rebranding is part of company’s integration process into Universal Investment Group following acquisition in 2022
15 May 2023
In-house rules: legal versus compliance
As more lawyers move into in-house roles within private equity, they can take up the mantle of either legal or compliance – but how do these functions cross and diverge?
11 May 2023
Alter Domus acquires Solvas
The acquisition aims to bolster the data unit’s credit risk offering by adding data analytics services from Solvas
11 May 2023
AssetMetrix partners with Proof
Partnership sees launch of ESG tool focused on compliance with SFDR
11 May 2023
More than half of GPs anticipate increase in tech budget
New survey findings reveal that 51% of emerging GPs expect larger IT spends during the coming year
11 May 2023
Profile: Mark Pleaner, Lightrock
The chief compliance officer believes a dedicated compliance function is a vital catalyst across operations, deal-doing and culture
10 May 2023
Indos Financial appoints CEO
Abi Holland is promoted to CEO from head of client relationship management
10 May 2023
Travers Smith’s senior partner to step down
Due to exceptional family reasons, Kathleen Russ will step down as a senior partner but remain in a consulting capacity
10 May 2023
Accordion acquires Merilytics
Company aims to build out a dedicated data and analytics platform for private equity CFOs
9 May 2023
Linklaters appoints Vergauwen as counsel
Julia Vergauwen’s practice focuses on ESG funds, Luxembourg domiciled funds and highly leveraged AIFs
9 May 2023
Filament secures £2.85m
Company uses natural language processing and machine learning to provide PE market intelligence and deal opportunities in real time
9 May 2023
TMF Group partners with Holland Mountain’s ATLAS
TMF’s fund services practice will integrate the data platform to enhance client reporting offering
5 May 2023
A&M’s Taxand team makes senior hire
Rhys Owen joins Alvarez & Marsal’s fund taxation practice from EY
5 May 2023
Comment: Private markets boom sparks uptick in demand for asset servicing
Claudia Bertolino, head of private equity and private credit at Citco Fund Services, says managers are placing higher expectations on their third-party providers
5 May 2023
Intapp acquires Paragon Data Labs
The platform aims to accelerate compliance disclosure workflows
4 May 2023
Hamilton Lane tokenises evergreen senior credit fund
Feeder fund is available on Securitize platform via Polygon blockchain
4 May 2023
The challengers
Charting the rise of the new fund admin kids on the block, looking to break the mould
3 May 2023
Who watches the watchdogs?
Macfarlanes calls for new independent body to increase democratic accountability and expertise of the UK’s financial services regulator
3 May 2023
Jersey widens AML/CFT scope
Jersey private entities with a local administrator no longer exempt from regime
3 May 2023
Comment: Transforming the alternative investment industry
Alter Domus's chief commercial officer Alex Traub discusses the fund administrator's digital transformation
2 May 2023
Up close and personal
FCA and HM Treasury take a deep dive into the effectiveness of SMCR so far; we explore what’s included in the consultation papers and what might be up for reform
2 May 2023
Growing pains
The fund administration sector is in a state of flux as it journeys towards professionalisation. Key challenges around consolidation, integration, talent and tech all need to be addressed to find a level of sustainability
28 April 2023
Deutsche Börse set to acquire SimCorp
Deutsche Börse has made a €3.9bn offer to purchase the Danish software company
28 April 2023
MJ Hudson’s Lutgen joins Ashurst
Whitney Lutgen will serve as partner to Ashurst’s investment funds group
28 April 2023
Impak partners with Good Circle to launch SFDR product
Partnership aims to support firms with commitments to sustainable finance
27 April 2023
AiFlow secures seed round investment
AI platform aims to reduce the need for analysts in competitor market research
27 April 2023
Advice: Cash issue
Significant tax changes will affect how partners in the UK are taxed, including members of LLPs, warns CM Murray partner Corinne Staves
25 April 2023
Valutico launches ESG valuation platform
ValutECO aims to integrate ESG considerations into the valuation process
24 April 2023
Not on the guestlist
A connection to public entities could see the EU's new Foreign Subsidies Regulation crash the dealmaking party
21 April 2023
Ogier expands offering in Ireland
After five years at Apex, Michael Carroll joins the law firm as head of debt capital markets
21 April 2023
IDR appoints head of channel partnerships
Karina Fochtman has a decade of experience in senior roles across consulting and relationship management
20 April 2023
Waystone acquires Link Fund Solutions
The deal is dependant on LFS settling with the FCA
20 April 2023
Is retailisation a misnomer?
Many hurdles remain around expanding private funds to the retail investor. We unpicked the main concerns raised by GPs and what the current definition of ‘retailisation’ actually means
19 April 2023
Petra Funds appoints director of ESG
Hugh Simpson joins from KPMG and is based in the London office
18 April 2023
AlphaSense secures $100m
New funds will be deployed to develop product roadmap and AI capabilities as company launches summarisation tool