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By George Ralph, RFA – Outsourcing IT is a viable option for many private equity firms who are looking for high quality, enterprise grade technology without the headache of managing it in house.
The last Deloitte global outsourcing survey in 2016 indicated that the market for outsourced services would almost certainly continue, but outsourced service providers would need to change and adapt to meet the needs of customers, who expect innovation, and want to see their businesses enhanced and improved by service providers.
Increased regulations and changes to compliance legislation have not dented the trend for outsourcing, as ISG report in
- 31/07/2017
Regardless of which side of the financial street you are on – buyside or sellside – trying to gain clarity on the costs of research unbundling under MiFID II is one of the biggest priorities and a key component of the planning roadmap.
With the deadline only six months away, managers and brokers need to determine how best to price research and what they are willing to pay for it. What is the depth and breadth of research production, and how much is it likely to cost to manage research under MiFID II?
These are critical questions that the industry
- 31/07/2017
In Part 1 of our hybrid cloud whitepaper excerpt, we reviewed the primary benefits to public, private & hybrid cloud infrastructures, and reviewed a number of considerations including service & support, availability and uptime, and proximity. In Part 2 below, we dive into additional factors to contemplate, specifically: security, application hosting and cost.
To download the full whitepaper, Is Hybrid Cloud Right For Your Firm?, click here.
Security
While your public cloud provider may provide world-class security for its services, your company is still on the hook for certifying all aspects of information security. For compliance-driven businesses, there
- 31/07/2017
By George Ralph, RFA – How do firms retain 100% of their clients? Firstly, when clients have put their trust into your business and agreed to work with you, that’s just the start of the journey. Many businesses see winning the client as the end goal. Instead see this as the beginning of a long partnership and take a systematic approach to onboarding new clients, which means less errors, and a professional service delivered both before and after the client signs up with you.
A specialist should work through a set of steps starting with initial data gathering, to create
- 28/07/2017
Euronext has announced its results for the second quarter of 2017 including a 3.8 per cent increase in revenues to EUR137.3 million (Q2 2016: EUR132.3 million) on the back of improved trading volumes on both the cash and derivatives markets, with derivatives also benefiting from the closure of TOM in the Netherlands.
Operational expenses excluding Depreciation & Amortisation increased by 6.3 per cent to EUR58.1 million (Q2 2016: EUR54.6 million) due to the deployment of the company’s Agility for Growth initiatives, ongoing IT projects (including the development of our new trading platform, Optiq), and new business.
During the quarter,
- 28/07/2017
LiquidityBook has appointed industry veteran Andy Carroll (pictured), as Chief Architect. Carroll, who will report to CTO Shawn Samuel, will be responsible for the technology architecture of the firm’s SaaS-based platform.
Carroll is LiquidityBook’s third major hire in as many months, joining Head of Technical Sales Les Vital and EMEA Client Services Manager Nicholas Thompson, both of whom joined from Eze Software Group.
Carroll ibrings over 30 years of experience across the industry. He joins LiquidityBook from Twitter, where he was a staff software engineer in the firm’s Live Video group, serving as the tech lead on the project
- 28/07/2017
TradesParent, a provider of Commodity Management Solutions, has become a registered service provider with CME Group to help extend regulatory reporting capabilities for the commodity processing and trading community.
“We are pleased to work with TradesParent to provide the global commodity community with a well-integrated trade reporting solution,” says Jonathan Thursby (pictured), Executive Director & Global Head of CME Group Global Repository Services. “The TradesParent Commodity Management Cloud Solution’s innovative technologies and analytics are the key to unlocking value and helping our mutual customers to achieve regulatory compliance.”
Designed and built by commodity professionals for the commodity industry, the
- 28/07/2017
Institutional investors based in Asia-Pacific have allocated more capital to hedge funds in recent years, reaching a record USD202 billion as of the end of 2016, up from USD180 billion a year earlier, according to Preqin’s new Hedge Funds in Asia-Pacific report.
This is at odds with allocation trends in North America and Europe, which in 2016 saw a greater proportion of investors indicate they were seeking to draw back from hedge funds than were looking to increase their investments. The majority of capital invested in hedge funds by Asia-Pacific-based investors comes from sovereign wealth funds, while several investors, particularly
- 28/07/2017
StarCompliance, a provider of enterprise compliance and regulatory software solutions for the financial services industry, has secured an investment from Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, to support its global growth strategy.
StarCompliance’s software platform helps financial services institutions manage, prevent, detect, report and resolve employee conflicts of interest by providing an unmatched 360-degree view of employee activity across the enterprise. StarCompliance’s platform monitors critical regulated employee activities such as personal trading, gifts and entertainment, political contributions and outside business activities to ensure ongoing compliance and mitigate the operational and reputational risk of non-compliance.
“We are
- 28/07/2017
- 28/07/2017
Pragma, a multi-asset quantitative trading technology provider, has enhanced Pragma360’s algorithmic suite to support triangulation of cross pair trading.
The new functionality, created in response to client demand, allows traders to trade cross-pairs through triangulation to achieve better prices. By splitting the trade across more liquid currency pairs then triangulating the liquidity through a common base currency, it allows the benefits of algorithmic trading to extend to less liquid cross pairs.
According to Greenwich Associates, real-money investors and corporate treasuries that commonly need to trade these illiquid pairs overwhelmingly value best execution and price above other factors when it comes
- 27/07/2017
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