Perspectives on depositary operations, regulation and technology.
Depositary operations are expanding on every front while the tools underneath them stay much the same. This is the pressure depositaries are under, and the platform Depowise built specifically to take it on.
Ireland's fund industry has outgrown the operational infrastructure supporting it. With AIFMD II, DORA, and T+1 converging at once, a view of the structural pressure on Irish depositaries, and what Depowise is doing about it.
Depositaries are the unseen safety layer of the European fund industry. A look at what they actually do, and the technological debt that has built up under the role.
Six trends shaping asset servicing in 2023, from regulatory pressure and the persistence of Excel-driven workflows to the slow death of manual NAV reconciliation.
Coinbase's direct listing put digital assets back on the institutional agenda. How depositaries should think about asset classes that did not exist when AIFMD was drafted.
Outsourcing puts oversight responsibility back on the fund manager. How to keep investment data centralised, auditable, and compliant when half your operations live with third parties.
The EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation reshapes how ESG funds report, and changes the data depositaries are expected to oversee. What it means in practice.
Outsourcing reduces operational load but transfers responsibility back to the Fund Management Company. A look at how Depowise unifies fragmented partner data into a single oversight layer.
Significant cash flow monitoring under UCITS and AIFMD has four operational bottlenecks. We built a feature for each one.
UCITS, AIFMD, and fund-level prospectus rules generate layers of investment limit checks. How automation handles the matrix without burning out the compliance team.
NAV reconciliation is exact, routine, and unrewarding. Automating it gives analysts back the hours they should be spending on the work only a human can do.
Outsourcing fragments the data you remain accountable for. A central data warehouse gives Fund Management Companies and depositaries one source of truth across partners.