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PandaConnect

Category
Consolidated Reporting

Denmark's PandaConnect is a full-scale investment administration solution, covering all assets classes, bankable and non-bankable investments in order to achieve the twin goals of wealth preservation and growth. Through data aggregation and consolidation family members, banks, currencies, and managers can achieve accuracy and transparency.

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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

  • 11–50

Revenue

-

Founded

  • 1997

Ownership

  • Owned by management

Incorporated

  • Denmark

Locations

  • Copenhagen
  • Vilnius

Top 5 Markets

  • EU
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America

Total AUM

  • $85 billion+

Avg. AUM per client

  • $10 million – $10 billion


100-500 (in GFO’s division)


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


  • 1889


-


  • United States of America


  • Chicago
  • London
  • Guernsey
  • Luxembourg
  • Abu Dhabi


-


  • $114 billion (Northern Trust’s GFO)


$900 million  (median $350 million)

Client
Focus

  • Single-family offices

Serves also

  • Individual wealth owners
  • Multi-family offices
  • Financial advisors
  • Financial institutions

Number

  • +120 private clients
  • +25 foundations and endowments
  • +10 pension schemes
  • +10 insurance companies


  • Single-family offices


  • Individual wealth owners


  • Approx. 500 GFO clients

Product
Main tasks

  • Investment reporting – standard and bespoke
  • Investment accounting – ready to book
  • Back office
  • IT
  • Auditors assurance reports
  • Know-how and daily support

Top features

  • On-line access to all portfolios
  • Manual and automated registration of transactions (done by our team)
  • Full reconciliation towards custodians (done by our team)
  • Comprehensive control- and review environment
  • Complete record keeping
  • Performance measurement (MWR, TWR and IRR)
  • Risk management
  • Governance and compliance reporting
  • Cost analysis
  • Data aggregation
  • Document storage
  • One source of truth (app, web, reporting and accounting)

Assets supported

  • Alternative investments
  • Bankable assets
  • Commodities
  • Direct investments
  • Hedge funds
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Real estate
  • Rare collectibles (e.g. luxury cars, boats, high-value jewelry)

Compliance

  • GDPR
  • AIFMD
  • UCITS

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

  • Serviced software

Security

  • Oracle fine grained access control
  • Two factor authentication
  • Encryption
  • Firewalls
  • Back-up servers
  • Redundant hosting center

Ecosystem

  • Microsoft
  • Linux
  • Java
  • Oracle

Integrations

  • Bloomberg
  • Power BI
  • Excel
  • Various accounting systems

Mobile App

  • Yes


  • 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 employees’ 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