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Institutional trading network Liquidnet has appointed Patrick Strobel as Head of Technology for EMEA. In this newly formed role, he will be responsible for building out the company’s strategic IT architecture in EMEA with an emphasis on the region’s Virtual High Touch MiFID II solutions.
Strobel brings over sixteen years’ experience delivering IT solutions for investment banks such as Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.
“EMEA is one of Liquidnet’s fastest growing regions and augmenting our team with an experienced Head of Technology is key to continuing that success,” says Mark Pumfrey, Head of Liquidnet EMEA. “Following our recent acquisition
- 17/08/2017
Principal trading firm DRW Holdings, which trades its own capital across a range of asset classes, instruments and strategies, is to acquire Austin, Texas-based quantitative trading firm RGM Advisors (RGM). Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
“RGM is a well-known and well-respected market participant with a talented team and trading strategies that are complementary to our own,” says Don Wilson (pictured), Founder and CEO of DRW. “Bringing our companies together creates significant opportunity in equities trading, research and technology infrastructure, which will bolster liquidity and innovation in those markets. We are excited to work with the RGM team
- 17/08/2017
- 17/08/2017
Cowen Inc and Cowen Execution Services (collectively, Cowen) have launched an enhanced ADR Direct client portal, which is designed to provide institutional investors with improved access to the global ADR marketplace.
Cowen’s ADR Direct platform and enhanced client portal allows investors to convert their ordinary shares into ADRs and to cost effectively manage market impact, reduce explicit execution costs and increase returns.
“Cowen’s suite of ADR products provides the marketplace with comprehensive solutions when converting ordinary shares to ADRs and ADRs to ordinary shares,” says Dan Charney (pictured), Cowen Managing Director and Head of Equities. “The recent enhancements to
- 17/08/2017
The latest S&P Global Market Intelligence Hedge Fund Tracker shows the top hedge funds managed approximately USD154 billion in equity holdings in Q2 2017, down slightly from the USD157 billion under management in Q1 2017.
The total number of equity positions held also fell slightly from 427 in Q1 to 423 in Q2, as hedge funds made a significant exit from the consumer discretionary sector.
S&P’s tracker reviews 13F filings made by pure play hedge funds to provide an aggregate analysis of hedge fund equity ownership, highlighting hedge fund investments in specific stocks and sectors.
“Though overall equity
- 17/08/2017
Perilune Group has restructured into two separate entities, Perilune Capital, LLC and Perilune Private Family Services (PFS). The former will focus exclusively on investments, including real estate, hedge fund seeding, commercial and business aviation and private equity on behalf of its institutional and private investors, while PFS, the successor to the Perilune Group family office, will provide estate, tax planning and concierge services for select ultra high net worth families.
Perilune Capital is headed by Carey Robinson Wolchok (pictured), Chairman and Founder of the Perilune Group, which he formed in 2008 as a private investment partnership with initial backing from
- 17/08/2017
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has secured a significant investment from Bregal Sagemount, a New York-based private equity firm focused on growth-oriented investments.
The transaction, which sees Bregal Sagemount invest nearly USD100 million in Options, will enable the firm’s executive team to pursue strategic growth initiatives, invest further in platform innovations, and expand Options’ reach in key financial centres globally.
Options, founded in 1993 as a hedge fund technology services provider, has enjoyed a period of rapid growth in recent years and now finds itself as an established market leader in outsourced
- 16/08/2017
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has added Shared Assessments’ Standardised Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaire to its Know Your Third Party Risk Management platform (KY3P).
IHS Markit, in collaboration with The Santa Fe Group, the managing agent of the Shared Assessments Program, now offers customers the flexibility to request the use of Standardised Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaire within KY3P. The SIG questionnaire is a comprehensive bank of questions aligned to industry standards and regulatory requirements, to determine how information technology and data security risks are managed across a broad spectrum of risk control areas.
“We
- 16/08/2017
Marketable alternatives are a substantial and important component of many endowment and foundations’ portfolios, according to the Q2 2017 NEPC Endowment and Foundation Poll, a measure of endowment and foundation views on the economy, investing, and key market trends.
The responses seem to indicate that exposure to these strategies has stabilized and will hold steady for the next year.
NEPC is one of the industry’s largest independent, full-service investment consulting firms to endowments and foundations.
According to the survey, two-thirds (68 per cent) of respondents have more than 10 per cent of their portfolios allocated to marketable alternatives.
- 16/08/2017
Brian Quintenz has been officially sworn in as a Commissioner of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency that oversees the commodity futures, options and swaps industry. His term expires in April 2020.
“I’m deeply honoured to be sworn in as a Commissioner of the CFTC,” says Quintenz (pictured). “I have tremendous respect for this agency and the people who work here. I look forward to working to fulfil the agency’s mission to foster open, transparent, competitive, and financially sound markets.”
“I am honoured to be among the first to congratulate Brian on joining the Commission,”
- 16/08/2017
Law firm Stroock’s FinTech group, led by partner Ian DiBernardo and special counsel Jeffrey Mann, has advised Instinet Holdings Incorporated in its acquisition of State Street’s BlockCross ATS, an alternative trading system (ATS).
The Stroock team also included associates Binni Shah and Adam Sapper. The transaction, which closed on August 10, 2017, is the third in a series of transactions Stroock has handled for Instinet. Terms were not disclosed.
Stroock’s FinTech team counselled Instinet in the preparation, negotiation and due diligence of vital intellectual property and information technology components. The deal included complex technology, cybersecurity and business issues that
- 16/08/2017
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