Nik Pratt

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CUSTODY: Overdue diligence

Nicholas Pratt describes how fund management firms are taking more interest in the networks of their global custodians. Sub-custodian banks – those often local, sometimes...

CUSTODY SURVEY: The big numbers

Funds Europe presents a table of rankings for some of the largest custodian banks active in Europe and the world. There has been little change...

MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE: Patience, please

Underwhelmed fund managers must be more patient in order to realise the potential benefits of T2S, hears Nicholas Pratt. Target2Securities, the European Central Bank’s (ECB)...

SPECIALIST FUNDS ADMINISTRATION: Logical structures

Funds Europe presents data about some of the specialist fund administrators that oversee assets for private equity and real estate investors in Europe. There...

SWISS ASSET SERVICING: Taking a swiss role

Swiss custody banks are in danger of seeing their market share wither as Swiss investors globalise and look to international partners for help, reports...

OTC DERIVATIVES: Clearly a success?

Central clearing for OTC derivatives is supposed to increase market stability and lower investors’ risks – but a way to circumvent it has emerged....

MiFID II: Released from the starting blocks

Rarely has the publication of an EU financial text been so keenly anticipated as Delegated Acts under MiFID II. Nicholas Pratt looks at one...

FIXED INCOME TRADING: Make your own liquidity

The more than 60 fixed income electronic trading platforms that have sprung up in the past two years are changing the landscape. Nicholas Pratt...

FUND ADMINISTRATION: Alternative lifestyles

Alternative funds are increasingly en vogue with institutional investors thanks to tighter regulation and greater oversight. Nicholas Pratt looks at how fund administrators are...

CROSS-BORDER FUND ADMINISTRATION: Raising liquids in Ireland and Luxembourg

Two fund structures that asset managers may want their administrators to support are Ireland’s Icav and Luxembourg’s Raif, which each country has developed to...

FUND ADMINISTRATION: AIFMD still the most significant regulation

Company executives answer questions as part of Funds Europe's fund administration survey. JEAN DEVAMBEZ, GLOBAL HEAD OF PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS, ASSET FUND SERVICES, BNP PARIBAS...

SWING PRICING: The swing of things

Nicholas Pratt talks to Alfi’s Geoff Radcliffe about the growing use of swing pricing in Europe and beyond. Luxembourg is home to the swingers, apparently....

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