In the price-sensitive world of fund administration, the goal is to automate as much as possible, including quality controls and determining and reconciling differences in results between the main fund administrator and the shadowing firm.
He also says the firm avoids anything that could be classified as inside information, a particularly sensitive topic these days for hedge fund managers.
Like Chu, the case against Fleishman was that he was putting corporate insiders, with access to sensitive information on earnings and products, in contact with hedge fund managers for a fee.
Among other things Mr Gupta is accused of passing sensitive information about Goldman Sachs when he was a director of the bank to Raj Rajaratnam, a former hedge-fund boss who was convicted of insider trading last year.