One of the challenges for private equity fund administrators in 2023 is attracting talent and keeping it

PoCs abound in the search for concrete applications of tokenisation to capital markets at a wholesale or institutional level. Has the dust now settled and what can we see?

The European Commission’s sweeping Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation seeks to lay the foundations for institutional digital asset standards across the European Union. Global Custodian looks under the hood of the new regulation, likely to be effective 2024, and at what it means for custodians operating across the continent.

In the regionalisation of investment services, the Nordics have been something of a pioneer. How has this affected the competitive environment for inbound and outbound business? Richard Schwartz visited SEB, the region’s dominant custody provider, to find out.

A Staff Accounting Bulletin from the SEC effective from April this year has been described as a “real constraint to scale” for US custodians looking to grow their digital asset businesses. 

Contingency planning is now top of mind for most network managers following the pandemic and more recently the war in Ukraine. Some experts wonder if events in China will be the next geopolitical flashpoint to disrupt the financial system.

In what has proven to be a memorable year for cryptocurrencies, incumbent custodians have entered the fray with their own custody launches and units, begging the questions: did they time this to perfection? Will this be a profitable venture? And who wins out between the banks and the independent crypto exchanges?

Delays, amendments, lockdowns, war – CSDR’s Settlement Discipline Regime began life at a time when unprecedented events have become the norm. Confusion, miscommunication and errors have plagued the regulation’s early days, but are its most challenging days now behind us?

A tumultuous two years for the prime brokerage space has seen exits, scandals and a renewed approach to risk management which has truly shaken up the industry. But don’t think for a second primes are struggling, as opportunity beckons for those willing to invest and appeal to funds with market share up for grabs.

Business leaders from the exchange-traded fund (ETF) servicing world convened online for a Global Custodian webinar last month to discuss the significant growth seen in the ETF space and how servicers are able to facilitate that growth and keep their clients happy.

The fund administration market has boomed in the last decade, sprouting a fresh landscape of new providers, fund structures and services. Those at the top of the pile have taken full advantage of the purple patch, spawning a small clique of providers each now overseeing over $1 trillion worth of assets. Chris Lemmon looks at the reasons behind their success and the future grounds for growth.

What was once a cottage industry is now a very large one awash with institutional money, and with this comes new responsibilities and challenges as private markets continue to ascend to new heights.

Financial services have long played an important role in the Cypriot economy. Can funds and fund services sectors take advantage of local talent to grow beyond the demographic constraints of the local market?

For much of their existence, triparty structures have been used primarily to support the financing needs of the sell-side. With a growing need for buy-side firms to manage collateral in new regulatory frameworks, what developments do triparty agents anticipate?

Regulators have announced proposed amendments to Form PF in order to understand large hedge funds’ investment exposures, open positions and borrowing and financing arrangements with counterparties.