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February 23rd 2022
Future of Transfer Agency: Do Blockchains and Crypto Funds Pose an Existential Threat?
Roger Woolman | Blog - 5 min.
As investor interest in crypto funds and assets accelerates, transfer agents face an existential challenge: how to support both the on- and off-chain worlds and remain relevant. Bitcoin’s launch in 2009 introduced a new paradigm into the financial sector – the idea that assets can be represented on a distributed ledger, potentially disintermediating some of […]
February 16th 2022
EU Guidelines Spark Investment Fund Performance Fee Confusion
Cormac Kavanagh | Blog - 5 min.
Regulatory ambiguity is bad news for fund administrators. Unfortunately, the European Securities and Markets Authority’s latest guidelines on performance fees for UCITS and certain retail AIFs has left market participants facing precisely th