HFM Asian Services Awards 2023 | With Intelligence | 23 June 2023 | Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel, Hong Kong Convention And Exhibition Centre, Harbour Rd, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Celebrating the best in Asian hedge fund services

Year-on-year, the With Intelligence HFM Awards recognize and reward hedge fund service providers who have demonstrated exceptional client service, innovative product development, and strong and sustainable business growth over the past 12 months.

The rigorous judging process, based on the views of a panel of leading hedge fund COOs, CFOs, CCOs, GCs, and CTOs, ensures that the Awards recognize those driving up service standards across the sector and stand out from the crowd as the ones the big providers really want to win.

2023 Categories:
• Best administrator – alternative credit
• Best administrator – boutique and emerging managers
• Best administrator - client service
• Best administrator - innovation
• Best administrator - over $30bn single manager
• Best administrator – specialist structures
• Best administrator - under $30bn single manager
• Best advisory firm – regulation and compliance
• Best advisory firm – tax
• Best audit services
• Best boutique prime broker
• Best boutique prime broker - innovation
• Best cloud tech provider - hybrid/private
• Best cloud tech provider - public
• Best cloud technology provider - (NEW FOR 2023)
• Best cyber-security service
• Best digital assets custodian
• Best digital assets provider
• Best executive search firm - (NEW FOR 2023)
• Best fund accounting and reporting software
• Best hedge fund custodian
• Best hedge fund platform
• Best innovation in ESG - (NEW FOR 2023)
• Best law firm - alternative credit
• Best law firm – client service - (NEW FOR 2023)
• Best managed service provider
• Best middle office service provider
• Best offshore law firm
• Best onshore law firm
• Best outsourced trading
• Best portfolio management software
• Best portfolio management software - innovation
• Best prime broker
• Best prime broker - capital introduction
• Best prime broker - derivatives (NEW FOR 2023)
• Best tech infrastructure provider
• Best technology firm - alternative credit
• Best valuations firm
• Most disruptive technology solution
• Most innovative technology firm

2022 Winners

Best administrator - client service
• BNP Paribas

Best administrator - specialist structures
• Ascent Group

Best administrator - boutique and emerging managers
• Ayasa Globo Financial Services

Best administrator - innovation
• Citco

Best administrator - under $30bn single manager
• CLSA Fund Services (Asia) Limited

Best administrator - over $30bn single manager
• State Street

Best advisory firm - regulation and compliance
• Waystone Compliance Solutions

Best advisory firm - tax
• EY

Best valuations firm
• Houlihan Lokey

Best audit services
• EY

Best offshore law firm
• Ogier

Best onshore law firm
• Simmons & Simmons

Outsourced middle office and shadow accounting provider
• Apex Group

Best managed service provider
• Bare Cove Technology

Best digital assets provider
• Copper.co

Best digital assets custodian
• Coinbase

Best cloud tech provider - hybrid/private
• Options Technology

Best cloud tech provider - public
• Velocity Technology

Best fund accounting and reporting software
• SS&C Advent

Best cyber-security service
• ECI

Best tech infrastructure provider
• Velocity Technology

Most innovative technology firm
• Refinitiv HK

Most disruptive technology solution
• Backstop Solutions

Best portfolio management software
• Broadridge

Best portfolio management software - innovation
• TORA

Best hedge fund platform
• OP Investment Management

Best hedge fund custodian
• Nuvama Asset Services
(formerly known as Edelweiss Asset Services)

Best boutique prime broker
• Saxo Markets

Best boutique prime broker - innovation
• CGS-CIMB Securities (Singapore)

Best prime broker - capital introduction
• UBS

Best prime broker
• Morgan Stanley