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Institutional trading network Liquidnet has enhanced its Liquidnet Virtual High Touch offering with the launch of Targeted Invitations for Algos in Europe, which allow buy-side traders to seek out additional block liquidity by sending actionable invitations within the Liquidnet community, while still keeping both sides of the trade anonymous.
The multi-asset class technology was first launched for equities in 2015 and then expanded into fixed income in 2016.
Now with the launch of Targeted Invitations for Algos, traders can add a Targeted Invitation to an algorithmic order and achieve two things at once – access the liquidity they need via
- 15/08/2017
Aventus Systems, a UK blockchain-based event ticketing solution, is relaunching an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) it postponed earlier this year.
Aventus has already attracted the attention of major investors as it seeks to launch the crowdfunded release of their new crypto-token, AventCoin, on 6 September, which will run until the 12th. The initial ICO was postponed as a response to the CoinDash hack and the bitcoin ‘hard fork’, however the market has since stabilised and Aventus has decided to press ahead with a strong message of assured security, having had an audit and two month long bug bounty on their
- 15/08/2017
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has seen strong growth in its FX Futures business over the last 12 months, with the total volume of FX Futures contracts up 74 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to 759,983 contracts in July.
Open interest in these contracts was up 15 per cent y-o-y to 60,105 contracts as at the end of July.
The average daily trading volume for all SGX FX Futures through July was 36,190 contracts, representing a significant increase 74 per cent y-o-y. On a year-to-date basis, this translates to over 31,000 contracts traded per day. Since the introduction of FX Futures at
- 15/08/2017
SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, has released version 6.2 of its front to back investment management solution, SimCorp Dimension.
Resulting from SimCorp’s continuous investment of more than 20 per cent of its annual revenue into R&D, the second of this year’s bi-annual SimCorp Dimension releases introduces new functionality for all parts of the investment management lifecycle and to support all financial instrument types in one system.
A recent InvestOps survey found regulatory compliance to be a top concern for global investment managers and listed MiFID II among the
- 14/08/2017
Digital asset management platform ICONOMI, has secured Columbus Capital as its first asset management partner to maintain and grow funds comprised entirely of blockchain based assets.
ICONOMI will continue focusing on platform development and offering the software tools for blockchain-focused fund managers, while Columbus Capital will independently manage three initial funds; a comprehensive Blockchain Index (BLX), Pinta (CCP), a closed-end, high performance fund focusing on novel digital assets and Blockchain.ONE, a fund soon to be listed on traditional, internationally regulated exchanges.
Each of these funds originated as the first Digital Asset Arrays (DAAs) built on ICONOMI’s software. Co-founder of
- 14/08/2017
ITI Capital has appointed John Barker (pictured), as Non-Executive Chairman. He was formerly the Executive Chairman of BCS and Managing Director and Head of International at Liquidnet Europe for over 10 years, as well as serving on the Board at Instinet.
In his new role, Barker will spearhead ITI Capital’s business strategy, offering direct market access to emerging markets for global clients, and to global markets for its Russian clients. The London based team also offers prime brokerage services and a trading platform for algorithmic funds, as well as structured products and technology-focused asset management.
Barker says: “I am extremely
- 14/08/2017
- 14/08/2017
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.67 per cent in July, underperforming the 0.93 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index family is a joint offering between Wilshire Funds Management, the global investment management business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated, and Wilshire Analytics, creator of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index.
“Risk-assets rallied in July, providing a tailwind for equity and credit strategies,” says Jason Schwarz (pictured), President of Wilshire Funds Management. “Long-biased equity strategies were
- 14/08/2017
The hedge fund industry has experienced significant forces of change in recent years, mostly driven by market regulation in the form of FATCA and the Dodd-Frank Act placing Form PF and CPO-PQR reporting obligations on firms.
This has led to far greater complexity with respect to operational compliance and prompted a wide universe of service providers to offer their support, from trade execution and portfolio management services, all the way through to compliance, accountancy and audit services.
But as the complexity of the marketplace increases, smaller and emerging managers find it increasingly hard to find the right service provider to
- 14/08/2017
- 14/08/2017
Ipreo, a provider of workflow solutions and market intelligence to financial services and corporate professionals, has completed the first domestic fixed income new issue deal in Japan on IssueNet, the company’s fixed income syndicate connectivity software.
The transaction was done for hybrid bonds issued by Sekisui House, Ltd. The deal’s bookrunner was Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co, Ltd. (MUMSS), with co-lead managers Mizuho Securities Co, Ltd. and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. IssueNet enabled the banks involved in the deal to work simultaneously in one orderbook, and for the issuer to have a real-time view into the book during the
- 14/08/2017
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for July 2017 measured 1.24 per cent. Hedge fund flows meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, advance 0.25 per cent in August.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index rose 0.25 per cent for August 2017, indicating positive net flows into hedge funds,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Although lower than the 0.74 per cent gain in net flows registered during the same period a year ago for August 2016, this increase continues the favorable trend in net asset retention by
- 11/08/2017
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