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Vistra launches newly-branded Vistra Fund Solutions with a promise to go above and beyond for clients
LONDON, April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Vistra, a leading provider of essential business services, is proud to announce the launch of Vistra Fund Solutions. This new strategic business proposition is laser-focused on supporting Vistra’s existing fund manager clients with dedicated end-to-end services delivered by specialist teams, and on realising its full potential for growth with new customers across the globe.
Using the acquisition of Phoenix American Fund Administration and Transfer Agent business in 2024 as the catalyst, Vistra has transformed its fund offering into a high-touch global service model. Vistra Fund Solutions will deliver expert services across funds and SPV administration globally, powered by world-class people who live and breathe fund solutions, and a proprietary technology platform that leverages market-leading vendor systems. The new global business proposition has been meticulously designed to deliver seamless service and high-touch support to clients wherever they are in the world and a brand experience that the market deserves.
“The launch of Vistra Fund Solutions elevates Vistra’s position in the funds market and brings into sharper relief the value we offer our global clients,” says Simon Webster, CEO of Vistra. “We already had a strong and powerful funds business with great people, strong capabilities and huge potential. Now it’s time to realise that potential by clarifying what makes Vistra Funds Solutions different and why we’re the natural partner of choice for fund administration and support anywhere in the world.”
Led by Abdel Hmitti, Vistra Fund Solutions provides a vertically integrated proposition that offers products and services to support fund structures, SPVs, and other related entities, ensuring a comprehensive approach across Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Capital Markets and Aviation services. This single-source offering allows clients to focus on value creation for investors while being supported by dedicated professional teams.
“With this new proposition, we are laser-focused on optimising our operations and investing in the business to better serve our clients’ needs and support their growth,” says Abdel Hmitti, President of Vistra Fund Solutions. “We have reorganised our service delivery to embed a client-centric service culture that is underpinned by a robust operating model and technology platform. Our success is driven by our world-class talent and is already being felt as we support our clients at every step of the investment lifecycle to optimise impact and returns.”
This brand launch is the start of a global campaign bringing Vistra Fund Solutions to life and highlighting what the promise of ‘above and beyond’ service means in practice. The campaign calls out high quality, precision, flexibility and agility, to deliver exceptional results and help fund managers choose what’s right for both their ambitions and the specifics of their fund operation throughout its lifecycle.
Nicholas Macksey, Partner of EQT Private Capital Asia – an investor backing Vistra – adds, “Vistra Fund Solutions is a natural evolution of the legacy Vistra business unit that served the funds market. This launch is symbolic of Vistra’s commitment to supporting those clients with the dedicated, world-class and tailored end-to-end services they need for navigating complexity and achieving success on a global scale. This is a milestone for Vistra and will accelerate the growth and value of the organisation for its people, stakeholders and clients.”
For more information about Vistra Fund Solutions, please visit vistra.com/funds.
About Vistra
Vistra is a leading provider of essential business services to help companies and private capital funds grow across the entire business and investment lifecycle.
Here at Vistra, our purpose is progress. As a close ally to our clients, our role is to remove the friction that comes from the complexity of global business. We partner with companies and private capital managers along the corporate and private capital lifecycle. From HR to tax and from legal entity management to regulatory compliance, we quietly fix the operational and administrative frustrations that hamper business growth. With over 9,000 experts in more than 50 markets, we can accelerate progress, improve processes, and reduce risk, wherever your ambition takes you.
For more information about Vistra, visit vistra.com
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– The new service robot zone becomes the hotspot for buyers
GUANGZHOU, China, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On April 15, the 137th China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) officially opened in Guangzhou, drawing global attention as it kicked off one of the world’s largest trade events. Running from April 15 to May 5, the Fair is divided into three phases under the themes of “Advanced Manufacturing,” “Quality Home Life,” and “Better Life.” This edition features 55 exhibition sections and 172 product zones, with newly added zones dedicated to service robots and integrated housing solutions.
The 137th Canton Fair continues to embrace a hybrid model, with its online platform operating all year-round. Enhanced functionality, improved structure, and upgraded services on the digital platform aim to create new business opportunities and help stabilize and improve the quality of China’s foreign trade.
The Deputy Director of China Foreign Trade Centre, Zhang Sihong, welcomed international guests in his opening remarks, highlighting the Fair’s role as a long-standing bridge of global cooperation. “The Canton Fair once again opens its arms to friends from around the world. Here, this spectacular event, we come together to pursue shared success and mutual benefit,” Zhang said.
As of April 13, over 200,000 overseas buyers from 215 countries and regions had pre-registered to attend the fair.
On the opening day, Phase 1 of the Fair, themed “Advanced Manufacturing,” attracted tremendous foot traffic across its 520,000-square-meter exhibition space. A key highlight was the new Service Robots Zone in the Friendship Hall in Area D, where buyers gathered to film product displays of various robots, such as robotic dogs, industrial exoskeletons, and autonomous navigation robots.
From April 15 to 19, Phase 1 showcases the strength of China’s industrial innovation, featuring 11,304 exhibitors, including approximately 3,700 companies focused on electric vehicles, lithium batteries, solar cells, digital technologies, and intelligent manufacturing. The spotlight on advanced technologies and green solutions reflects China’s ongoing transformation into a high-tech manufacturing powerhouse.
With its expanding scale and evolving content, the Canton Fair remains a vital platform for connecting international markets and showcasing China’s industrial progress. As it enters its 137th session, the Fair continues to foster trade cooperation and inspire global partnerships, reaffirming its position as a cornerstone of international commerce.
To learn more about Canton Fair, please download the Canton Fair App at https://cief.cantonfair.org.cn/en/app/appintro.html.
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Prime Factors and Thales Extend Collaboration to Help Customers Build More Secure Payment Applications Faster with BCSS and the Thales payShield HSM
EUGENE, Ore., April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Prime Factors and Thales announced today that Thales will offer Prime Factors’ Bank Card Security System (BCSS) – a software solution that helps simplify the orchestration of payment security in bespoke payment applications – through its global distribution networks.
“We are eager to provide tools for our customers to implement payment security quickly and easily,” said Todd Moore, Vice President of Data Security Products at Thales. “BCSS delivers robust application-side payment security infrastructure and is remarkably complementary to the Thales payShield HSM. BCSS helps to accelerate application development, simplify security compliance, and includes pre-built integrations with the Thales payShield HSM that make it easier to implement and manage hardware security for payments.”
BCSS delivers out-of-the-box security functionality to help developers build secure payment applications in a fraction of the time, including:
- Robust payment key management and secure storage
- Granular role-based access controls and permissions enforcement
- Audit logging and reporting functionality
- High-Level APIs and pre-built workflows for quickly integrating payShield HSMs
- Built-in load balancing across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid HSM deployments
“When Thales launched its Cloud-based Payment HSM Service, it became clear that BCSS was a key differentiator,” said James Torjussen, payShield Product Manager at Thales. “The load balancing functionality and deployment flexibility of BCSS allows our joint customers to better manage cloud migrations – moving capacity, specific functions, or specific environments to the cloud smoothly, at a pace that makes sense for their business, without complex application re-development. BCSS seamlessly spans cloud and hybrid-cloud deployments and provides robust failover capabilities that reduce the timelines, costs, and risk of cloud migration.”
“BCSS, which has stood the test of security auditors for decades, is the ideal solution for enterprises that build and manage their own payment applications,” said Jose Diaz, Vice President of Products and Services at Prime Factors and Former Head of Payments Strategy at Thales. “BCSS helps enterprises get to revenue faster, mitigate risk, and reduce implementation costs, as well as the total cost of ownership over time. Supporting Thales channel partners to help enterprises simplify payment security infrastructure feels like a natural step in our 30+ years of ongoing collaboration with Thales.”
Read the solution Technical Brief or visit our website to learn more.
Media Contact:
Kyna Reuter
kyna.reuter@primefactors.com
Erik Kingham
erik.kingham@thalesgroup.com
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NEW YORK, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins.
Kristen Scholer delivers the pre-market update on April 15th
- Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) reported better than expected results this morning, raising share price pre-market.
- General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Ford (NYSE: F) rose after President Trump’s comments around helping auto companies
- Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Citigroup (NYSE: C), and PNC (NYSE: PNC) highlight upcoming earnings
Opening Bell
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) celebrates its 100th anniversary
Closing Bell
Axis Capital (NYSE: AXS) marks the two-year anniversary of Vincent Tizzio as President & CEO
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