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Investors are more committed than ever to their alternative investment programmes, notes Preqin’s latest Global Alternatives report. Drawn by the diversification and return benefits on offer, Preqin expects private capital, hedge fund and other alternative assets to soar from $13.32tn at the end of 2021 to $23.21tn by 2026. Such strong growth trends will be […]

Tougher new beneficial owner rules add pressure on firms’ AML capabilities Financial institutions’ beneficial ownership screening capabilities face heightened scrutiny following the launch of new global transparency rules. In early March, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s anti-money laundering watchdog, agreed tougher rules on beneficial ownership to prevent criminals using anonymised corporate structures […]

Robust anti-money laundering (AML) and knowing your customer (KYC) capabilities have never [...]

Full end-to-end process automation remains an elusive goal for the global fund administration industry. SWIFT messaging standardisation is a big part of the solution. Look at what SWIFT has done for the global banking system. The organisation was founded in 1973 to create a common international financial messaging language to facilitate communication about cross-border payments […]

The Covid-inspired “Great Resignation” may be a short-term response to an extraordinary, temporary situation, but it has long-term implications for the fund administration sector and the wider financial services world. People quit their jobs at a record rate last year. In most cases, especially in Europe, the Great Resignation has been more transference than exodus, […]

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 […]