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Hong Kong’s Digital Green Bonds Bring Tokenised Deposits Into Bond Settlement

Hong Kong’s latest HK$20 billion digital green-bond issuance has incorporated tokenised bank deposits into the settlement process for its Hong Kong-dollar tranche, marking a further step towards integrating conventional bond markets with digital financial infrastructure. The transaction also demonstrates how tokenised securities, multiple currencies and existing settlement systems can operate within a single institutional capital-markets…

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BNY Extends Regulated Digital-Asset Custody Into Europe

BNY is expanding its digital-asset custody platform to selected institutional clients in the European Union, bringing regulated crypto-asset services into its established asset-servicing business. The move highlights how traditional financial institutions are extending custody, administration and transfer capabilities to support the convergence of conventional capital markets and digital financial infrastructure. BNY is expanding its Digital…

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Gaw Capital Seeks Hong Kong Listing for Private Real Estate Debt Fund

Gaw Capital has filed an application for the proposed Hong Kong listing of a real estate private-debt fund, bringing private property lending into the framework of the city’s listed investment market. The proposed vehicle highlights how fund structures and public-market infrastructure can provide investors with a route to exposure to lending secured against real estate…

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Goldman Sachs’ European Evergreen Credit Strategy Passes $10bn

Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ evergreen European private-credit strategy has surpassed $10 billion in total assets, reflecting demand for private lending through a continuing investment structure. The strategy combines exposure to a scaled direct-lending platform with access for institutional investors, family offices and wealth clients, illustrating how alternative managers are developing different routes into private credit. Goldman…

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KKR’s $5.1bn Gen II Deal Signals Rising Value of Private Markets Infrastructure

KKR’s acquisition of Gen II Fund Services from Hg and General Atlantic puts a $5.1 billion valuation on a business sitting at the intersection of private capital, fund administration and technology. KKR has agreed to acquire Gen II Fund Services for approximately $5.1 billion, in a deal that highlights the growing strategic importance of the…

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Schroders leaves the stock market as Nuveen creates $2.6tn public-to-private investment platform

Nuveen has completed its acquisition of Schroders, creating a $2.6 trillion asset and wealth manager spanning public and private markets and bringing one of the UK’s best-known listed investment businesses into private ownership. One of Europe’s most significant asset-management transactions has completed, with Nuveen acquiring Schroders and creating a combined investment platform with approximately $2.6…

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Aztec supports €1.1bn Highland Europe fund close as private markets demand grows

Aztec Group has supported Highland Europe on the €1.1 billion close of its latest technology growth fund, highlighting the growing operational requirements surrounding large-scale private-market fundraising. Aztec Group has provided fund administration support to Highland Europe following the €1.1 billion close of its latest technology growth vehicle, as private-market managers continue to build larger and…

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Neuberger brings equity and fixed income together in new multi-asset UCITS

Neuberger has launched a multi-asset UCITS fund combining established US equity and global fixed-income strategies in a single portfolio, reflecting continued demand for diversified investment solutions. Neuberger has launched the Neuberger Balanced Fund, a multi-asset UCITS strategy combining two of the firm’s established actively managed investment approaches within a single portfolio. The fund allocates approximately…

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Ireland looks to tokenised money market funds as bridge between traditional and digital markets

Ireland’s funds industry is developing a model for tokenising existing money market funds that could improve collateral mobility and operational efficiency while retaining conventional fund governance and legal structures. Ireland is positioning itself at the intersection of established fund infrastructure and digital-asset technology as the country’s funds industry explores the tokenisation of money market funds….

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Spain Moves Private Markets On-Chain as BBVA Backs Tokenised Fund

BBVA Asset Management has become the first investor and initial exclusive institutional distributor of a tokenised share class of Hamilton Lane’s Global Private Assets Fund, highlighting Spain’s growing role in the digitalisation of private-market distribution. Hamilton Lane announced the initiative in May 2026, bringing together the global private-markets investment manager with Spanish fund-distribution platform Allfunds…

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