For both Ripple and the broader digital asset space, 2024 has been a landmark year, says Cassie Craddock, managing director of UK and Europe at Ripple, who highlights progress in the crypto space along with the organisation’s own milestones.
Changes in the mainstream lending landscape and the market’s less volatile nature drive more fund managers toward the private credit space. Preqin recently estimated the market’s growth rate is accelerating to 17.4% annually, with private debt becoming the second largest private capital asset class in 2023. Global Custodian sits down with Bhagesh Malde, global head of SS&C’s fund servicing unit, SS&C GlobeOp, and Karen Geiger, SS&C’s alternatives technology leader and co-head of SS&C Advent, to discuss opportunities and challenges in the market and how the firm’s private credit offering is standing out from the competition.
S. Uma Shanmukhi, MD & CEO, SBI-SG, discusses the growth of the Indian capital market and the company’s strategies to service the same.
There are many unknowns ahead in the journey to T+1 in the US, but along the way there are preparedness milestones to hit, crucial areas of engagement, and systems to put in place as the industry faces up to challenges in achieving overall readiness for this critical yet seismic change, says David Kirby, head of the securities post-trade optimisation practice at DTCC Consulting Services.
The collaboration extends the value chain for fund managers depositing with Cecabank and provides them with a unique competitive advantage in protecting the interests of their unitholders.
The alliance transforms the processing of tax refunds through end-to-end digitisation, increases efficiencies, and heightens the proactive and expedited recovery of all eligible withholding tax on foreign investments for investment funds and pension funds.
In partnership with CSC, Global Custodian hosted a webinar alongside industry experts to discuss how funds can prepare for growth by considering their vendor ecosystem across the fund lifecycle; and how fund service providers can support their long-term views on growth plans and help them navigate global jurisdictional and regulatory landscapes.
As winners of the 2022 Global Custodian ‘Private Market Initiative of the Year’ Award, Apex Group received industry recognition for the success of their innovate platform that services the private credit market.
China Construction Bank offers intelligent, innovative and dutiful support for custody customers and the healthy development of national financial markets.
Opus Fund Services has consistently been recognised in the annual Industry Leaders awards season, this year winning Global Custodian’s 2022 Hedge Fund Administrator of the Year and the award for Best Client Service. This article seeks to explore what it is that has Opus’ clients writing so positively about their Opus experiences.
Digital Prime Technologies has assembled the Board, team and the tech to go along with best practices and products from traditional finance to allow capital markets firms to launch and manage a digital asset offering for their existing clients, at a time when best practices and corporate governance is of the upmost importance for institutional investors.