Fundsphere Terms FST | Reshaping the Asset Management Industry by commercialising the first digital solution to automate preparation of legal agreements that will increase the growth of registered funds on global markets.

Summary
Today the Investment Fund Industry uses paper based agreements which leads to inefficiencies, errors, increased risk and inability to open new markets for selling funds globally. Asset Managers by using spreadsheets and document assembly tools (e.g. HotDocs, Exari) made poor attempts to transform paper based chaos into even bigger electronic chaos and without meaningful disruption of current Contract Lifecycle Process. Requirements under the recent regulatory agenda (MiFID II in EU, RDR in UK, Dodd-Frank Act in USA) reinforce the need of disruptive and digital technologies to stay competitive in the new investorship environment.
Metrosoft aims for revolutionizing the way the agreements are made and managed by delivering software solution to create data driven legal agreements. Fundsphere Terms is a unique platform that is used to create, manage and exchange legal agreements covering terms of doing business between Sell Side and Buy Side at any point of sales channel in the Investment Fund Industry; in a structured database instead of in document creation and management solution.
We want to bring it directly to the global markets with its financial centres, as industry players operate indeed globally. The need for Fundsphere Terms was confirmed by key finance firms (including Schroders that participates in validation trails) during 2 biggest sectorial conferences in Luxembourg and Hong Kong (ALFI, ITAS) and Key Opinion Leaders who are strong supporters of industry dematerialisation.
To fully exploit this EU-based technology, we will drive growth through B2B model and market the top 400 Assets Managers that are decision makers and influencers in the industry. Later growth will be the “snow ball” effect (counterparties of Assets Managers). By bringing Fundsphere Terms into the rapidly growing market we estimate to attract min. ≥ 25% of the global Asset Managers, which means volume of approx. +/-20 customers annually, with an estimated revenue €17.4mln after 5 years.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/717953
Start date: 01-03-2016
End date: 31-05-2016
Total budget - Public funding: 71 429,00 Euro - 50 000,00 Euro
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Today the Investment Fund Industry uses paper based agreements which leads to inefficiencies, errors, increased risk and inability to open new markets for selling funds globally. Asset Managers by using spreadsheets and document assembly tools (e.g. HotDocs, Exari) made poor attempts to transform paper based chaos into even bigger electronic chaos and without meaningful disruption of current Contract Lifecycle Process. Requirements under the recent regulatory agenda (MiFID II in EU, RDR in UK, Dodd-Frank Act in USA) reinforce the need of disruptive and digital technologies to stay competitive in the new investorship environment.
Metrosoft aims for revolutionizing the way the agreements are made and managed by delivering software solution to create data driven legal agreements. Fundsphere Terms is a unique platform that is used to create, manage and exchange legal agreements covering terms of doing business between Sell Side and Buy Side at any point of sales channel in the Investment Fund Industry; in a structured database instead of in document creation and management solution.
We want to bring it directly to the global markets with its financial centres, as industry players operate indeed globally. The need for Fundsphere Terms was confirmed by key finance firms (including Schroders that participates in validation trails) during 2 biggest sectorial conferences in Luxembourg and Hong Kong (ALFI, ITAS) and Key Opinion Leaders who are strong supporters of industry dematerialisation.
To fully exploit this EU-based technology, we will drive growth through B2B model and market the top 400 Assets Managers that are decision makers and influencers in the industry. Later growth will be the “snow ball” effect (counterparties of Assets Managers). By bringing Fundsphere Terms into the rapidly growing market we estimate to attract min. ≥ 25% of the global Asset Managers, which means volume of approx. +/-20 customers annually, with an estimated revenue €17.4mln after 5 years.

Status

CLOSED

Call topic

ICT-37-2015-1

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
H2020-EU.2.1.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
H2020-EU.2.1.1.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - ICT - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-SMEINST-1-2015
ICT-37-2015-1 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.1. Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
H2020-SMEINST-1-2015
ICT-37-2015-1 Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)