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New York-based PortfolioScience and Eze Software have joined forces to offer the marketplace a unique solution for fund managers: pre-trade compliance rules based on market risk.  The RiskAPI service, developed by PortfolioScience, is a fully hosted and customisable risk solution that integrates seamlessly with existing applications and programming frameworks to generate risk calculations for multi-asset, multi-currency portfolios and individual positions.  Eze Investment Suite, Eze Software’s straight-through processing solution for the entire investment lifecycle, culls inefficiencies and replaces innumerable manual operations tasks by streamlining portfolio analytics, modelling, trading compliance and risk, from idea generation to settlement. The Portfolio Science application adds
In a post-regulatory world, one of the ways for hedge fund managers to gain an edge on their peers is thinking about how to make risk more strategic. To tell a more coherent story, in terms of how they manage risk to improve their reputation and their asset raising capabilities, as well as helping with the overall performance of their fund(s).  This needn’t be confined purely to investment risk. As will be revealed, it could also include technology risk and liquidity risk, to name but two.  Providing tools for managers to move risk management into the front-office to gain clearer
With investment managers typically running multiple strategies, both onshore and offshore, across a range of asset classes, paying heed to regulatory rules has been a relatively straightforward affair.  Global regulations over the last decade have required financial institutions to become more prescriptive in terms of improving their trade compliance frameworks and enhancing pre-trade analytics. As such, most of the liquidity-related concerns in respect of Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) prescribed by the Federal Reserve Board, Solvency II, MiFID II, and liquidity coverage ratios under Basel III are essentially just rules from the regulator to adhere to.  Conversely, regulations such as
Increased regulatory requirements have pushed alternative fund managers to think more about risk, which has become multi-faceted: it is no longer about evaluating market risk ex post, but monitoring counterparty risk, liquidity risk, cyber risk, compliance risk and technology risk.  As the regulations become more stringent, so managers’ awareness of what they need to do to adhere to them has risen.  George Ralph (pictured), Managing Director of RFA, says that to deal with increased regulation, and the rising threat of cyber attacks, managers are increasingly turning to IT outsourcing. “However, this does not mean that managers can transfer risk to
Gauging risk sentiment among hedge fund investors is more art than science but there are some indirect signals that one can use to examine this. If one looks at total inflows into hedge fund strategies in 2016, a clear picture emerges: CTAs attracted USD26 billion in net inflows, in stark contrast to all other strategies, which suffered USD110 billion of aggregate net outflows. The biggest losers in all of this were equity strategies, shedding USD50 billion of net assets; this despite generating 6.85 per cent returns.  What this would suggest is that large institutions, by favouring CTAs, view hedge fund
Saxo Capital Markets UK Limited (Saxo), the UK subsidiary of Saxo Bank, has reduced the minimum spread for UK clients trading the UK100, the CFD index of the 100 largest UK listed companies by market capitalisation.  With spreads from as low as 0.8 basis points, Saxo now offers one of the tightest spreads in the market on the UK 100 CFD index.   The reduction in spreads took effect in early July 2017 to coincide with the launch of a new account functionality on SaxoTraderGO for its UK clients, before a planned roll-out in other regions by the end of
SIX Swiss Exchange has successfully completed the upgrade of its X-stream INET trading platform. Alongside forward-looking improvements in performance and capacity, the stability of response times has been increased. This means that market participants have even more reliable information on whether their orders have been executed, enabling them to act accordingly. This improvement plays a key part in fostering stable and orderly exchange trading.   When it comes to technology, SIX Swiss Exchange is one of the leading exchanges in the world. Its stock exchange system achieves top levels in terms of stability and availability. The latest upgrade to the
AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), the specialist European financial services private equity firm has competed an offering by AnaCap Financial Europe SA SICAV-RAIF (AFE) of EUR325 million of senior secured floating rate notes due 2024. The offering took place through the new Luxembourg Reserved Alternative Investment Fund, AFE, building on AnaCap’s long track record investing in portfolios of performing and non-performing debt across Europe.   Justin Sulger (pictured), Head of Credit Investments at AnaCap Financial Partners LLP says: “AnaCap has been able to complete this transaction thanks to its long-standing track record in the European debt purchase sector. Another valuable component
The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) and its CCP subsidiary, Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC), have been recognised as a remote Exchange and Clearing House by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), the regulatory authority for the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), enabling ADGM companies to access its trading and clearing platforms. The recognition status takes effect immediately and enables financial institutions domiciled in the ADGM and licensed by the FSRA to become members of the DGCX, the region’s largest and most diversified derivatives exchange and clear through its globally recognised Clearing House, DCCC.   At present, Aarna Capital
Tradeweb Markets, a builder and operator of global fixed income, derivatives and ETF marketplaces, has made a strategic investment in DealVector, a fixed income asset registry and communication platform. The investment aims to enhance and leverage Tradeweb’s diverse network of liquidity pools, and help support new opportunities for DealVector’s innovative registry and anonymous, authenticated messaging solutions.   “We look forward to enhancing our offering by working with DealVector. Its pioneering technology aligns well with our goal to deliver differentiated capabilities that provide greater transparency, efficiency and connectivity to institutional investors,” says Simon Maisey (pictured), Managing Director and Global Head of

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