CBDT clarifies Principal Purpose Test under the Mauritius-India tax treaty
Corporate social responsibility
15 March 2022
Further to the FATF’s decision to add the United Arab Emirates to the increased monitoring list, the UAE made a high-level political commitment to work with the FATF and MENAFATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime.
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14 March 2022
Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex” or “the Group”), a global financial services provider, has been appointed by Perennial Partners to provide fund administration services to Perennial Private Ventures Fund (“The Fund”).
11 March 2022
The EU’s sustainable investment regulation has successfully started to install rigour into the market for ESG products, but the task is far from complete.
The Asia-Pacific investment market has seen a significant change over the past few years, and not just because of the phenomenal growth achieved by some of the region’s economies and corporations. In a relatively short time frame, the global fund allocations here have risen from about 5% to about 20-25%, with investment flows coming from both within the region itself and internationally, resulting in a new set of dynamics for many LPs and GPs to consider.
The UK financial regulatory authorities issued a joint statement that all UK financial services firms, including the crypto asset sector, are expected to play their part in ensuring that sanctions are complied with, and to minimize the risk of circumvention of such sanctions, particularly through crypto assets.
10 March 2022
Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex” or “the Group”), a global financial services provider, has been appointed by New Forests to deliver fund services to Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (“TAFF2”).
People and capability have become the latest weapons in gaining competitive advantages. Yet, the financial technology and services industry is lagging when it comes to attracting and promoting female talent, where women are only represented in 10% of CEO positions, 31% of key managerial positions and 27% of directors. Alarmingly, the expectation gap between “saying” and “doing” to advance the promotion of women is widening.(i) The female representation across pure technology jobs is even worse, occupying less than 25% of professional IT roles across global Big Tech firms (ii) despite an increase in the number of positions made available.
09 March 2022
Our Global Head of ESG, Andrew Pitts-Tucker joins Funds and Asset Management Counsel, Kamar Jaffer to discuss ESG integration into investment decision-making, data collection, reporting and measuring impact both at a global level and in the Middle East
08 March 2022
In March 2020, the global Real Estate sector was severely impacted by COVID-19 and the repercussions are still being felt today. Offices quickly emptied as we had to change our style of working and resort to working from home, making us a more flexible workforce.
07 March 2022
Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex” or “the Group”), a global financial services provider, has been appointed by Starlight Capital (“Starlight”) for Fund Administration and Corporate Services.
04 March 2022
For many years, private equity firms were able to focus on their principal raison d'etre – generating returns for their investors. But then the global financial crisis of 2008 hit and things changed.
28 February 2022
We’ve compiled a list of compliance and regulatory updates for Bermuda that were announced or took effect in February 2022 below.
