Special Reports

Within the last 12 months, the financial world had to weather a storm that is unprecedented in history. »

With nearly EUR2trn in assets under administration in investment funds, Luxembourg has long attracted investors worldwide in traditional asset classes. »

Solidly established as a global leader in the investment funds world, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has recently been seeing an increasing number of hedge funds, and especially funds of real estate fu »

Latency: A measure of delay. In a market where speed is of the essence, the spotlight falls on the issue of latency. Latency is the time it takes to get a deal done, cancel an order or know what is happening in the market. »

It is clear from conversations with a broad range of market participants that inherent latency is a problem for active market participants on current FX trading systems. »

Network latency is the time needed to effect a communication between two network nodes. »

Much has been made of dark pools of liquidity in the equity market at present. These are financial markets not available or visible to the general public - essentially 'non-displayed' liquidity. »

Accelor is the next-generation foreign exchange ECN for all market participants, developed to meet the needs of the most demanding institutional market participants. »

Like other investment services centres such as the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Luxembourg, Ireland continues to look to increase the depth of its  funds business by seeking to attract »

Few practitioners in the Guernsey fund industry would dispute that the establishment of a closed-ended private equity vehicle by venerable US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and its listin »