Titanbay wins 'Innovation of the Year': tackling the biggest barrier to trading evergreen funds at scale

Titanbay has been named Innovation of the Year at the Money Age Wealth & Asset Management Awards 2026, recognising our TradeEngine, the infrastructure built to tackle the biggest operational barrier to scaling private markets.

Evergreen funds are changing private markets

Evergreen funds have fundamentally shifted how private markets capital is raised and distributed. Unlike traditional closed-end structures, they offer continuous subscription and redemption windows, making private markets accessible to a far broader investor base. For wealth managers and GPs alike, they represent one of the most significant structural shifts in the asset class in a generation. But that accessibility comes with an operational challenge that the industry hasn't fully solved yet.

The problem: evergreen funds can't yet be traded the way public markets can

Wealth management technology was built for public markets. It assumes uniform units, predictable liquidity, and early aggregation of client instructions. That works for equities and exchange-traded funds, where every investor holds identical units and trades settle in the same way.

Evergreen funds are different. Every investor can have a different entry date, a different lock-up, different penalty exposure, and different redemption eligibility at any given dealing window. When individual client context is lost early in the trade process, the only way to recover it is manually, through spreadsheets, operational calls, and judgement at dealing cut-off.

At low volumes, that is workable. At scale, it becomes the barrier. Lock-ups misapplied. Penalties charged inconsistently. Audit trails that are hard to evidence. Advisors without clear visibility into client liquidity.

Manual processes don't fail immediately, they degrade. By the time the issues are visible, they are embedded in client records and workflows that are costly to correct. The infrastructure has to be right before scale arrives, not after.

What we built: our TradeEngine

Our TradeEngine sits between client instruction and trade execution, enforcing fund and client rules at the individual level before instructions are aggregated, so that evergreen funds can finally be traded with the same reliability and confidence as public markets instruments.

The sequence: receive individual client instructions, enforce fund and client rules pre-trade, aggregate eligible instructions for execution, process via existing custody or transfer agent rails, then accurately disaggregate outcomes back to each client.

What changes is when rule enforcement happens. What stays the same is everything else. Custody relationships, execution rails, and reporting infrastructure remain intact. Our TradeEngine integrates as middleware, with no re-platforming required.

What this delivers

For wealth managers and private banks, our TradeEngine means consistent rule enforcement, clear audit trails, and private markets operations that remain reliable as volumes grow. For GPs, it means distribution partners that can scale without hitting operational ceilings.

The evergreen opportunity is real. Our TradeEngine is what makes it executable.

What the award means

Innovation of the Year tells us what we already knew. Our TradeEngine doesn't just improve how private markets trades are processed. It changes what's possible.

Our TradeEngine is one part of Titanbay's broader platform, the same infrastructure that has launched 59+ funds across 40+ jurisdictions, supporting $1.5bn+ AUM under administration*. Structured, launched, run, and traded in one place.

*As of May 2026

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