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15 MINUTES WITH... Capita asset Services A Financial Services, licensed by the “Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier” (CSSF), delivering corporate and fund administration services to institutional, corporate and private clients, worldwide with a highly professional and personalized touch. Truly independent of any banking institution, investment manager, lawyer or accountancy firm, we are part of Capita plc (http://www.capita.co.uk), a FTSE 100 company. Our Luxembourg team (+-150 employees) has a wealth of experience and knowledge in accounting, treasury, company law and administrative services to provide the following: • Setting up a Luxembourg entity • Company administration and secretarial services • Organization of your business platform • Domiciliation services • Accounting services • Front and Back Office Treasury Solutions • Tax administration services • Fund administration (SIF, SICAR) • Cross-border financing - Which sort of services could you offer to treasurers in their daily business ? Our Corporate and Fund Administration business in Luxembourg is specialised in the provision of administration services to regulated, non-retail, fund vehicles (Part II UCI, SIFs, SICARs). We help fund managers to meet legislative and regulatory requirements for managers and cross-border investment holding structures. Services include: • Incorporation of investment holding, financing and fund vehicles • Corporate domiciliation services to regulated and unregulated vehicles • Directorships • Central administration services to regulated funds (UCI, SIF, SICAR) • NAV computation • Registrar and transfer agency services • Accounting services We have long-established relationships with many of the world’s leading international financial institutions and professional investors; specifically we work with all of the leading international accountancy practices, investment management companies and investment houses. We are instructed by the leading global firms and act for major banking institutions. Capita Fiduciary SA as an independent Company also ensures total transparency and adequate evaluation and accounting of the investment realised by the investment management company in their investment fund vehicle. CAPITA ASSET SERvICES Our Group provides a suite of integrated Front, Back & Middle Office Treasury Services, built around flexibility and scalability that is supported by experienced staff. Our service can incorporate broader treasury support to a treasury department such as managing an overall in-house bank function or specific niche services such as multi-lateral netting or hedge valuation & accounting and is delivered by dedicated, responsive and trained staff. Our service covers a broad range of day to day core treasury activities including the management of intra-group loan portfolios, cash pool structures, deposit placement, FX hedging, trade execution & settlement, multi-lateral netting etc. through to the reporting, financial instrument valuation and accounting requirements generated by treasury activity. The services we provide can vary from client to client and are specific to the treasurer’s requirements, services can be delivered in components, such as deal execution, payments, settlement and reconciliations or managing the group’s multi-lateral netting programme, our services can be delivered as a full suite or as part of a service all depending on the treasurer’s requirements. Of course we can also overlay this activity with our broader corporate services suite of products, from domiciliation to tax and accounting support, so as to provide a uniquely comprehensive solution to our clients. Our service is designed around our client’s specific treasury structure and incorporates our clients’ treasury policy and operational requirements. Our clients can be international corporates, professional service firms or private equity clients. We recognise that treasury is at the heart of a corporates control environment and accordingly we ourselves have overlayed the strong control environment expected of a listed UK plc operating in regulated businesses with an independent control review from KPMG (ISAE 3402 (SAS70) certified). - You are also an international company. Why did you decide to set up an office in Luxembourg ? Indeed, we offer a pan European service from offices in Amsterdam, Budapest, Dublin, Jersey, London and Zurich. Among other advantages, Luxembourg’s strategic geographic location in the heart of Europe, its political stability, its multicultural and highly qualified workforce together with a strong legal, tax regulatory and administrative tax framework have been key factors for establishing Capita’s office in Luxembourg. The Luxembourg government has always pursued a pro-active economic approach making possible for Luxembourg to be and to continue to be an international finance centre and a prime business location. - What is your corporate customer-type? In Luxembourg we focus on the provision of Corporate Services to institutional, corporate and private clients worldwide. Our clients come from a wide variety of horizons; HNWI, Multinational companies, Private equity firms, Real estate investors, etc. Typically, our corporate customer-type is a multinational company or private equity firm (EU, US, Canada, Asia) using Luxembourg companies to finance and hold worldwide participations as well as intellectual property, real estate. More and more clients of ours choose to combine various activities in Luxembourg includes treasury and cash management. / NOV / DEC 2013 - Could you briefly describe Capita Asset Services Luxembourg ? - Which services could you also provide in terms of fund administration ? 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Table des matières de la publication Trésorier/Treasurer magazine - N°83 — Oct/Nov/Dec 2013

Couverture
SOMMAIRE
EDITORIAL
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Luxembourg Tax News
INTERVIEW David White - TriOptima
FOCUS
FORUM
CORPORATE FINANCE
15 MINUTES WITH Capita Asset Services - Luxembourg
NEWS
THE FINANCIAL RISK OBSERVATORY

Trésorier/Treasurer magazine - N°83 — Oct/Nov/Dec 2013