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The ID Register, an online platform which makes the Know Your Client (KYC) process quicker, easier and more cost effective, passed its first birthday on 22 July.
Since its launch the platform has grown rapidly with more than 17,500 registered investors and 140 GPs including StepStone, Gilde, Adam Street Partners and TDR Capital. It is a revolution for the investor onboarding process in the private funds market and it is proving very popular in the US market.
Backed by leading fund administrator, Ipes, The ID Register was developed in response to the changing regulatory requirements for KYC. The UK
- 04/08/2017
- 04/08/2017
Tradeweb has submitted an application with the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) to establish a fully regulated entity within the EU.
Tradeweb is focused on providing market participants with uninterrupted access to liquidity, services and choice once Brexit becomes a reality.
Tradeweb’s new office will serve as the electronic trading hub for the firm’s EU-based clients, benefitting from Amsterdam’s regulatory environment and infrastructure.
“Tradeweb’s imperative has always been to provide our global client base with access to liquidity across a range of products. Post-Brexit, for many investors, uninterrupted access to that liquidity requires an independent and
- 03/08/2017
Financial technology company S3 Partners (S3) has added its Black App to the Thomson Reuters Eikon App Studio.
The app delivers real-time short interest, market- standard borrow and loan rates, and predictive analytics that identify trading and portfolio- finance opportunities on 28,000+ public equities, indices and ETFs globally.
“Collaboration over our open platform is a key component to delivering a world-class trading solution on Eikon,” says Michael Chin (pictured), co-head of Trading, Thomson Reuters. “By adding S3’s Black App, Eikon buy-side clients have an incredibly powerful analytical tool to leverage in their trading decisions.”
“S3 Partners is focused
- 03/08/2017
RMB Capital (RMB) has promoted portfolio manager Andrew Baker, CFA (pictured), to partner.
Baker joined RMB in 2008 as a senior analyst for the firm’s asset management team. Since then, he has been working as a generalist across asset classes and leading all investment manager due diligence efforts. He was named vice president in 2014 and became portfolio manager for RMB’s multi-strategy alternative portfolios in 2015. Baker is also a member of the firm’s investment committee.
“Andy has been instrumental in shaping our overall investment policy as a firm,” says Richard M Burridge, RMB Capital founding partner, CEO and
- 03/08/2017
- 03/08/2017
Jibrel Network, a protocol with built-in regulatory compliance allowing anyone to put traditional assets like currencies, bonds and other financial instruments on the blockchain, has launched a platform that will enable licensed entities to sell tokenised, compliant securities.
Jibrel, which is about to close USD3 million in private investment from individuals within government and financial institutions, has been working on its next generation smart contract platform since mid-2016.
The regulatory-compliant platform is designed to be on-chain, meaning that all transactions will be written to the Ethereum blockchain. Tokens issued on the Jibrel Platform will be embedded with real-world rules
- 03/08/2017
London-based asset manager Helford Capital Partners’ Helford Global I Fund is now available for investment to both institutional and professional investors, the strategy having been proved through consistent realised performance.
The fund, a Cayman AIF, was re-launched just over two years ago with seed capital from Helford’s partners.
Helford Global I’s investment strategy has been developed in-house at Helford with a rigorous risk management framework for capital preservation embedded within the model. Helford Global I is Helford’s flagship fund.
Nick Moran the COO of Helford Capital Partners, says: “It’s essentially a systematic trend-following strategy designed to deliver consistent
- 03/08/2017
SIX Swiss Exchange has reported a year-on-year increase in trading activity with trading turnover up by 5.9 per cent to CHF 824.7 billion in the first seven months of 2017.
This trend was also reflected in the number of transactions, which rose by 4.2 per cent to 30,109,594. Turnover averaged CHF 5.7 billion per trading day over this period. There was one additional trading day in the corresponding period in 2016.
There were 4,166,288 transactions on SIX Swiss Exchange last month, generating trading turnover of CHF 102.2 billion. This equates to a month-on-month decrease of 15.0 per cent in
- 03/08/2017
A small hedge fund based in Park City, Utah is using ‘insider information’ to generate impressive returns for investors.
The Insiders Fund, managed by veteran investor Harvey Sax (pictured), has generated one-year returns of 33.02 per cent net of all fees. That performance ranks the Fund amongst the top 20 “Long/Short” hedge funds in the world.
“Everyone knows the best stock market information is inside information,” says Harvey Sax, portfolio manager of The Insiders Fund. “It’s common sense that no one knows a business and its prospects better than the people running it.”
“Most people think that trading
- 03/08/2017
Ransomware threats are on the rise – WannaCry and Petya are just the beginning. To prevent future cyber threats from causing harm, financial and investment firms should employ security practices that include deep layers of protection. Here are five suggestions to keep in mind:
Back up. Unfortunately, hackers initiating ransomware attacks aren’t exactly on the up-and-up. After they’ve stolen your files and demanded a ransom, they claim files will be decrypted and restored – but those promises are typically dishonest. Odds are, even if you pay a ransom (which you shouldn’t!), your files won’t be decrypted. That means backups are
- 03/08/2017
Antipodes Partners Limited (Antipodes Partners), a boutique Australian investment management firm, has launched a UCITS version of its flagship long/short global equity fund.
The Antipodes Global Fund – UCITS, which was launched with AUD125 million of cornerstone assets, has come to the market in response to strong demand from European and Asian investors. It is the first sub-fund of the Pinnacle ICAV, a Dublin-based UCITS umbrella distributed by Pinnacle Investment Management, a leading Australian multi-boutique platform with over AUD20 billion in AUM across its affiliate managers.
A pragmatic value manager of global equities, Antipodes Partners was founded in 2015
- 03/08/2017
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