Pacific Fund Systems releases automated AIFMD Annex IV solution

Pacific Fund Systems Limited (PFS) has delivered an automated AIFMD Annex IV reporting solution in the latest release of its PFS-PAXUS fund accounting and share registry software platform. The solution, which is fully integrated into PFS-PAXUS, facilitates the automated generation of an XML file in ESMA format for submission to local regulatory authorities. This new reporting capability adds to the existing suite of regulatory reporting functionality in PFS-PAXUS. According to James Eldershaw, a Director of PFS, “After consultation with a number of our clients we learnt that they are being approached by their fund manager clients to aggregate and compile the extensive data that needs to be reported to local regulators. Our research has shown that a very high proportion of this data is held in PFS-PAXUS. For us having an integrated fund accounting and share registry application provides us with a considerable advantage when automating Annex IV reporting. We have created new fields in PFS-PAXUS for Annex IV data that previously existed outside of the system. This new capability converts a particularly complex and time -consuming exercise into an easy-to-use and highly automated solution. The XML files that PFS-PAXUS generates are for both the fund manager and the underlying funds that they manage”.