Ultimus Fund Solutions and Xceptor, maker of data automation platforms for financial markets, have expanded their six-year partnership to help Ultimus’ clients streamline operations and reduce risk, officials say. Ultimus offers fund administration, accounting, and investor solutions. The expanded partnership encompasses “global verticals and business lines” that use the data automation and reconciliation of Ultimus’… Read More >>
Syz Asset Management Taps CACEIS
Syz Asset Management has tapped the asset servicing banking group, CACEIS, created by Crédit Agricole and Santander, to provide custody, fund administration, and transfer agency services because CACEIS offers bespoke solutions, according to the firm, which is part of the Swiss family-owned Syz Group. “The mandate covers all of Syz Asset Management’s funds totaling over… Read More >>
Fundhost Outsources Key Services to SS&C
Fundhost Ltd., a boutique fund services provider to investment managers in Australia, will be outsourcing its unit registry and fund administration operations to SS&C Technologies, officials say. By turning to SS&C and its proprietary platform, FundHost will be streamlining its unit registry and fund administration operations. Fundhost provides “entity, trustee, fund administration, registry, compliance, operations… Read More >>
Temenos Sells Multifonds to Montagu Private Equity
The banking software company Temenos is selling its fund administration software business Multifonds to Montagu Private Equity for approximately $400 million including an earnout, as part of Temenos’ initiative to streamline its offerings, officials say. The Multifonds executive management team has invested in the company to be overseen by Montagu, officials add. Temenos’s headquarters are… Read More >>
Vistra Bolsters Fund Admin Services via Acquisition
Professional services provider Vistra has completed its acquisition of the fund administration and transfer agency business of Phoenix American Financial Services, Inc., officials say. The acquisition did not include Phoenix American’s aviation services business. “This transaction will expand Vistra’s presence and capabilities in the business-critical U.S. market, allowing it to provide deeper and broader end-to-end… Read More >>
CACEIS Pioneers Digital Assets Services Unit
CACEIS, an asset servicing provider based in Montrouge, Île-de-France, has launched its Digital Assets business line, making it the first European asset servicing group to do so, officials say. The launch will bolster CACEIS’s digital strategy and help it meet growing demand from investment management firms and institutional investors, officials say. “The Digital Assets business… Read More >>
Watson Wheatley to Use Daymi’s APIs & Other News
New Links Will Help Users Manage iRecs Projects Watson Wheatley, a London-based provider of securities reconciliation, and Daymi, an interactive operations playbook provider based in Stockholm, have launched a connectivity partnership that will enable operations teams to better manage recurring projects, routines and tasks, officials say. “Using the API [application programming interface] connection that… Read More >>
BNY Mellon FSI DAC Fined $12M for Regulatory Breaches
Citing 16 breaches of the regulations governing fund administration outsourcing, the Central Bank of Ireland fined BNY Mellon Fund Services DAC a total of €10,780,000 ($11.9 million), making it the largest monetary penalty to date ever imposed on a fund services provider in Ireland. “BNY DAC is the second-largest fund administrator in Ireland with just… Read More >>
State Street Buys BBH Investor Services for $3.5B
State Street Corp. is acquiring the custody, accounting, fund administration, global markets, and technology services of private bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. — known as BBH’s Investor Services business — for $3.5 billion in cash in a major bid to become the top provider in the investment servicing industry. The firms report that they… Read More >>
Rep’s Strategies Spur FINRA Charges & Fine for Firm
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has hit a brokerage in Cincinnati, Ohio with a censure, a fine of $275,000, and the obligation to make more than $1 million in customer restitution. The broker is the O.N. Equity Sales Company, Inc. (ONESCO), which “offers various investment products, including deferred variable annuities, to the public through its 760… Read More >>
