Disruptive technology provides both opportunities and challenges. Opportunities to upend old, and perhaps tedious and cumbersome practices. Challenges in that if you don’t keep up, you get left behind. This carries over even into the field of accounting – especially software. Staying out in front of the pack requires a deeper look at the available…
Family Office API Integrations Can Be a Nightmare!
Custody integrations are where many family-office stacks stall. The “API” often arrives as a toolkit that needs custom mapping and weeks of testing before it moves a single position, so budgets creep while you keep the book current with CSV fallbacks. When the feed finally goes live, cancel-and-corrects post as new events and cash duplicates,…
Upgrade Anxiety and Hidden Fees that Keep Fund Administrators Awake Nights
The sales demo feels like a breeze. The dashboards are polished and the price fits your spreadsheet. The sales managers is sitting at your desk and your signatures are all but dry. This is when the shoe drops and the footnotes start to bloom. Need the IFRS module? Extra. ESG drill-downs? Extra. Regulatory patching on…
Your Fund Admin Stack isn’t Built for ESG Data
ESG reporting has shifted from a ‘nice‑to‑have’ marketing insert to a regulated deliverable—fast. Europe’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is phasing in alongside the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, while the International Sustainability Standards Board’s S‑1 and S‑2 rules are already shaping investor questionnaires. In the US, the SEC’s climate‑risk rule may be in court, yet…
Fund Administrators Sleep Easy With Secure AI On Their Side
A fund administrator recently confessed on LinkedIn that AI’s promise of painless reconciliations and faster closes is tempting, but the idea of a rogue model spilling investor data “keeps me up at night.” They’re not alone. AI is outpacing the fund-admin playbook. Nine out of ten alternative managers already rely on machine-learning for tasks like…
Hurdles in Back-Office Reporting & Accounting for Tokenized Digital Assets
Picture a financial utopia where deals zip through at lightning speed, assets bend to your will like a smartphone app, and every move shines with crystal-clear transparency. That’s the electrifying promise of tokenization platforms such as forward-thinking family offices. But while the front office basks in this dazzling vision, the back office is scrambling to…
Signs Your Family Office has Outgrown the Neighborhood CPA
Yesterday’s capital call landed at dawn. By lunch, the principals wanted a cash-flow forecast that blended the Cayman feeder, the Montana ranch LLC, and three new venture notes. Your long-time CPA e-mailed back “We can turn that around next Friday.” If that reply sends you into a panic, you’ve hit the first sign the family…
What are the Benefits of a Multi-Family Office (MFO)?
A Dallas-based family just sold its logistics empire for US $480 million. They want the sophistication of a Wall Street endowment desk, but the numbers don’t pencil out. Building a single-family office would eat roughly 98 bps of their assets—about US $1.8 million a year—before investment fees even show up. Smaller teams simply can’t outrun…
How to Simplify Data Entry for Large-Scale Financial Records
Monday morning, nine o’clock, inbox overflowing with PDFs. A dividend notice here, a custodian feed there, an invoice that missed the cutoff last week. You could treat the pile like firewood—stack it neatly and chip away all afternoon—or you could let software do the lifting. Today’s back-office platforms behave like tireless interns: they read bank…
