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Etops

Category
Advisors

Etops offers an AI-powered wealth management platform designed specifically for family offices to consolidate all asset classes and simplify complex wealth structures, deliver actionable insights, and automate compliance, enabling family offices to increase operational efficiency and return their focus to their clients.

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Northern Trust Family Office Technology

Category
Consolidated Reporting

Northern Trust is a global financial institution that provides asset servicing, investment management and wealth management services for institutions, high-net-worth individuals and families or their family offices.

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Company
Employees

  • 100-500

Founded

  • 2010

Locations

  • Cham, Switzerland
  • Sonneberg, Germany
  • Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Gรถrlitz, Germany
  • Freiburg, Germany
  • Munich, Germany
  • Stadtbredimus, Luxembourg
  • Tbilisi, Georgia

Top 5 Markets

  • Switzerland,
  • Germany,
  • Austria,
  • Luxembourg,
  • United Kingdom,
  • France,
  • Belgium,
  • Netherlands

Total AUM

  • We do not manage AuM, but we have >USD 400bn on our platform

Ownership

  • Key staff also have ownership,
  • Owned by a larger corporation,
  • Owned by management


100-500 (in GFO’s division)


$6.1 billion ($286.3 million – GFO’s trust fees)


  • 1889


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  • United States of America


  • Chicago
  • London
  • Guernsey
  • Luxembourg
  • Abu Dhabi


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  • $114 billion (Northern Trustโ€™s GFO)


$900 million ย (median $350 million)

Client
Focus

  • Multi-family offices

Secondary focus

  • Individual wealth owners,
  • Single-family offices,
  • Multi-family offices,
  • Investment & Financial Advisors (RIAs/IFAs),
  • Fund managers,
  • Banks,
  • Pensions,
  • Endowments,
  • Foundations,
  • Funds of funds,
  • Software and technology providers,
  • Other


  • Single-family offices


  • Individual wealth owners


  • Approx. 500 GFO clients

Product
Main Tasks

  • Data Aggregation,
  • Advisors,
  • Asset Managers,
  • Compliance,
  • Data,
  • Consolidated Reporting,
  • Portfolio Management,
  • Technology Provider,
  • Risk Management,
  • Private Bank,
  • Portfolio & Cost Analysis,
  • Trading,
  • CRM

Top features

  • Custom Reports,
  • Full Multi-Currency Support,
  • Transparency,
  • Proven Agility,
  • Custom Development Service,
  • Other Services,
  • Digital Excellence

Assets supported

  • Art & Collectables,
  • Bankable or Financial Assets & Funds,
  • Cash & Equivalents,
  • Real Estate,
  • Private Equity,
  • Alternatives,
  • Commodities,
  • Developed Markets,
  • Developing Markets,
  • Direct Private Equity,
  • Foreign Exchange,
  • Equities,
  • Gold & Precious Metals,
  • Hedge Funds,
  • Private Equity Funds,
  • Cryptocurrency,
  • Digital Assets & Crypto Currency,
  • Insurance,
  • Lifestyle Assets & Rare Collectables,
  • Fixed Income,
  • Private Debt,
  • Private Equity & Direct Investments,
  • Real Estate,
  • Residential,
  • Venture Capital

Whitelabel

  • Yes


  • Consolidated reporting
  • Portfolio management
  • Accounting
  • Governance
  • Compliance
  • Trading
  • Data aggregation
  • Risk management
  • Impact/ESG reporting


  • Holistic, aggregated single source of data
  • Automated cash & trade transaction tools
  • Comprehensive user report library
  • Ad-hoc custom reporting
  • Easily-accessible mobile platform
  • Dedicated client service team
  • Integrated partnership accounting & general ledger
  • Security & integrity of your data


  • All marketable and non-marketable assets
  • Bankable assets
  • Private equity
  • Real estate
  • Rare collectibles (e.g. luxury cars, boats, high-value jewellery)


  • MiFID II
  • GDPR
  • AIFMD
  • UCITS


  • Yes

Technology
Type Of Software

  • CRM systems (via API, including contact reports and relationship mapping)
  • Trading and rebalancing through our OMS with FIX connectivity
  • Market data integration LSEG, SIX and Mountain view
  • Product extensions via hyperapp approach (e.g. MIS Dashboards, PEP checks, behavioural profiling)
  • SAAS
  • Serviced software

Mobile App

  • No


  • Serviced software


  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Anti-fraud programs & IT security team
  • Three-tiered network architecture with redundant firewalls and DMZ layer
  • Network intrusion detections systems.
  • Regular network- and application-level penetration tests
  • Anti-virus practices at network, app and database levels
  • Several limits to employeesโ€™ ability to see and manage client data
  • Dedicated fraud prevention and investigations unit


  • Linux
  • Java


  • We interact with a variety of external vended software and send data (once authorized by the client) daily. Existing connectivity can be confirmed on request.


  • Yes