For sponsors, developers & borrowers
Building your own AIFM takes months, permanent staff and permanent cost. If your economics do not support that, a registered manager that already exists is the faster route to a compliant structure your investors will accept.
And if your deal does not belong in a fund, we will tell you on the first call rather than the fifth.
Who this page is for
Profile 01
You have a site, a permit path and a group of investors who trust you, but they want governance around their money — independent valuation, audited accounts, someone other than you calculating the numbers.
What we do: the project sits in an SPV held by a fund or compartment we manage, with your development role defined contractually and disclosed to investors.
Profile 02
You have recurring receivables or a supply chain that ties up working capital, and bank facilities that are either too slow, too small or secured against the wrong things.
What we do: assess whether the flow is eligible for a fund we manage, and say clearly if the documentation or the obligor quality is not there yet.
Profile 03
You have a strategy, a track record and interested professional investors — and a quote for establishing your own manager that makes the first fund uneconomic.
What we do: act as manager of the fund with your role defined and disclosed, so you build a record without carrying an AIFM from day one.
Profile 04
You are building fintech infrastructure or a payment platform and want capital from an investor who understands regulated procurement, not one who needs the sector explained.
What we do: assess the company against our fintech or payments strategy, and be direct about what would block a regulated buyer.
Build or use
All three are legitimate answers. The right one depends on your fund size, your appetite for permanent overhead and how much control of the manager you actually need.
Full control, your brand, your economics. Also: registration or authorisation process, qualified staff, capital, policies, ongoing supervision and reporting.
Fits a large, repeatable programme
Known in the market as a third-party AIFM, an outsourced AIFM or fund hosting. The regulatory wrapper, governance and reporting already exist; you contribute origination and strategy expertise under a defined, disclosed arrangement. Investment decisions rest with the manager.
Fits a first or focused fund
A club deal, a joint venture or direct co-investment can be simpler and cheaper for a single asset with two or three known investors — with correspondingly less governance.
Fits one asset, few investors
How we assess
A fast no is worth more than a slow maybe. These are the tests we apply before spending your legal budget.
Yes
We do not learn a new asset class on your deal. If it is not trade finance, EU real estate, fintech technology or payments, we say so.
Yes
Your investor base must be capable of professional classification. Retail distribution is outside our scope entirely.
Yes
A fund carries administration, audit, valuation and legal cost. The size and duration have to justify it, and we will show you the arithmetic.
Yes
Investors, sponsors and obligors must survive AML, sanctions and beneficial-ownership screening. This is not negotiable.
No
If the purpose of the structure is to make an offer look regulated rather than to be governed properly, the answer is no.
No
If your investors have been told a return is fixed or guaranteed, the mandate is not one we can take on.
If a fund is not the answer
Plenty of enquiries turn out to need something other than a fund. BLK Group holds those capabilities in separate licensed entities, so a no from us is often a warm introduction rather than a dead end.
BLK Advisory Services
Corporate structuring, EU setup routes, receivables process design, VAT and VIES oversight and M&A support — for when the business needs work before it needs capital.
VIP360
Accounts, e-money wallets, card programmes, remittance and FX through FCA- and FINTRAC-regulated group entities, for businesses whose real constraint is settlement.
XCHANGE360
Crypto and stablecoin settlement, OTC execution, custody and payout with an audit trail, through regulated entities in Switzerland and Canada.
Boundary
Each of those services is contracted with the licensed entity concerned, under its own licence and terms. BLK Finance receives no advisory or transaction fee for making an introduction on behalf of a fund it manages.