Month: December 2022

SS&C has acquired Complete Financial Ops, Inc. Fund Services, a Colorado-based fund administration firm. CFO Fund Services delivers fund administration to private equity funds and family offices. Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. The acquisition adds 25 clients and eight employees.

Jörg Günther has joined Viridium, a specialist in the management of life insurance portfolios, as chief technology officer. He was previously with Citi, where he was global head of securities services technology, joining in 2019 from Northern Trust, where he was CTO for EMEA and chief information officer for its Corporate & Institutional Services business

U.S. Bank has given Breda Sullivan an expanded role as head of depositary, custody and banking for its European investment services business. Sullivan has been with U.S. Bank since 2017, and was previously head of depositary services in Europe. Her promotion follows the recent appointment of Didier Delvaux as head of global fund services for…

The Maples Group has appointed Jorge Pérez Lozano as head of fiduciary services in Luxembourg. He joins from Amicorp, where he was COO. Regulated by the CSSF, the group’s Luxembourg office provides fiduciary, fund and entity formation and management services to a range of Luxembourg vehicles and clients, including corporations, banks, and structured finance arrangers,…

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., a financial services and investment management provider in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors, intends to acquire GK8, a secure institutional digital asset self-custody platform. The acquisition will be the result of a sale process executed in connection with Celsius Network LLC‘s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is subject to…

Blume Equity, a European climate-tech growth investor, has appointed IQ-EQ to support its maiden fund launch. IQ-EQ Luxembourg will support the new fund with administration, depositary and ManCo services under AIFMD. The team will also provide the GP with a range of corporate services. In addition, IQ-EQ’s UK business is providing regulatory hosting services.

Accelex, a SaaS platform provider specialising in alternative investment data management, has established a partnership with qashqade, a Switzerland-based software solution provider that enables private capital allocators and asset servicers to automate their waterfall and valuations workflows. The partnership will allow clients of both firms to leverage an end-to-end solution, from the automated extraction of…

DWS, Germany’s largest retail asset manager, has migrated its Xtracker I and II range of ETFs to an international issuance and settlement structure through Clearstream. Xtrackers are DWS’s range of ETFs ad ETCs listed across 11 exchanges, covering core benchmarks, ESG, emerging markets, currencies, strategic beta and commodities.