DEPOSITARY SERVICES & GLOBAL CUSTODY

Financial Institutions

Institutional Investors

Regulated Entities

AT A GLANCE Athlos Capital offers top-tier Depositary Services tailored for Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and Registered Alternative Investment Funds (RAIFs), ensuring strict compliance with laws and regulations.

Our Depositary Services and Global Custody solutions offer institutional clients secure, efficient asset safekeeping, ensuring compliance and seamless management across global markets.

Our comprehensive oversight ensures all fund activities fully comply to relevant laws and regulations, upholding applicable investment and risk limits. We ensure timely reporting, and promptly identify discrepancies, while providing actionable recommendations. We prioritize effective and efficient service delivery while fostering client relationships built on trust and accountability.

Funds and fund managers benefit from our team’s vast experience and exceptional service in carrying out essential Depositary functions, which include:

Cash Flow Management:

  • Supervision and management of cash flows, ensuring accurate allocation to designated accounts.
  • Thorough reconciliation of all cash flows within the fund.
  • Comprehensive understanding of transactional processes related to cash flows.
  • Diligent monitoring of substantial cash flows within the fund.
  • Maintaining precise and detailed records of all financial transactions.

Asset Verification & Safeguarding:

  • Verifying ownership and authenticity of fund assets, ensuring alignment with official records.
  • Continuous monitoring and control of sub-custodial operations to safeguard fund assets.
  • In-depth understanding of transactional aspects related to asset verification and safekeeping.
  • Maintaining precise and up-to-date asset records regarding their status and value.
  • Oversight of asset disposal processes ensuring compliance with regulations and protocols.
  • Reconciliation between fund manager and depositary records, maintaining accuracy and consistency.
  • Validation of asset information from external sources in relation to their value and status.

Fund Operations Oversight:

  • Supervision and management of the fund’s activities, including subscriptions, redemptions, sales, and issuance of fund interests.
  • Oversight of valuation processes and Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations to ensure accuracy and adherence to industry standards.
  • Diligent monitoring of distributable income calculations.
  • Ongoing review of audit recommendations and implementing necessary changes and improvements.
  • Tracking compliance with investment and risk limits.
  • Oversight of substantial changes to fund documents, ensuring proper documentation, approval, and communication to stakeholders.
  • Generating compliance reports as required by regulatory authorities and internal compliance policies.
  • Efficient supervision of fund operations, implementing escalation procedures for non-compliance or irregularities.
  • Annual evaluation of procedural protocols to enhance the effectiveness of asset verification and safekeeping processes.

By choosing Athlos Capital, funds benefit from our access to top-tier sub-custodians and highly-rated banking institutions, guaranteeing asset segregation and robust investor protection. Our comprehensive Global Custody services include transaction settlement and corporate action processing, with client assets securely held at JPMorgan SE in Germany and SIX Group in Switzerland.

We offer a full range of Global Custody services for financial instruments both locally and internationally:

  • Global custody.
  • Settlement of transactions.
  • Corporate action processing, including dividend payments, stock splits, redemptions, proxy voting, etc.
  • We segregate clients’ cash at JPMorgan SE in Germany and clients’ assets with SIX Group in Switzerland, ensuring the highest standards of security and compliance.

experts on this service

Head Of Depositary Services

Giorgos Theodorou

Giorgos embarked on his career as a Client Manager in the fund Management Team at CITI bank in Dublin, Ireland.

After gaining valuable experience in the financial services field, he returned to Cyprus and joined Renaissance Capital, where he eventually ascended to the position of VP Global Head of International Onboarding. He then joined SIB (Cyprus) Limited, where he served as the Head of Operation. Giorgos joined Athlos Capital as the Head of Depositary Services in 2023.