Year: 2023

Clearwater Analytics, a U.S.-based provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has hired Josef Sommeregger as region head for DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and the Middle East. He joins from SimCorp, where he was managing director for the data and communications business line.

Citco has enhanced its Citco Waterfall tool to enable clients to customise and calculate forward-looking investor distributions and carried interest scenarios on their desktop. The Scenario Modeling enhancement, which is also available as an add-on service within the Citco Waterfall tool, allows clients to generate carried interest projections through a step-by-step wizard, enabling them to…

Pirum, the UK-based fintech, has extended its connectivity with BNY Mellon through its collateral management platform, CollateralConnect, to allow mutual clients to self-direct triparty collateral allocations using its optimisation algorithm. By leveraging Pirum’s existing market-wide connectivity, the platform now offers a full front-to-back solution to support enterprise-wide optimization across fixed income, securities finance and derivatives.…

Aztec, the C.I.-based alternatives administrator, has established a presence in Ireland with a hub in Kilkenny. This follows the appointment in 2022 of Kevin Hogan as head of Ireland fund services. Hogan joined from State Street. A recruitment drive is now underway to build a team of approximately 30. The roles will cover private equity,…

Zodia Custody, the UK-based crypto custodian owned by Standard Chartered and operated in association with Northern Trust, has registered its Irish unit with Luxembourg’s financial regulator, CSSF. The registration will allow Zodia to provide digital asset custody services in Luxembourg.

EFA, the Luxembourg-based administrator owned by Universal Investment, has been appointed by Tygrow to provide administration and accounting for its funds. To date, four private equity and real estate funds with more than 100 investors have been launched by Tygrow, valued by EFA. Tygrow is an independent management company based in France.

Formidium, the U.S.-based administrator, has launched Private Fund Admin, a technology platform that it claims will streamline the private fund administration process. Private Fund Admin aims to address the complexities associated with unique structures (cross-border and single/multiple LLC structures), the wide range of private fund administration services (fund setup, ongoing operation/administration solutions, investor KYC/AML, NAV…