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Broadridge Financial Solutions has formed a strategic alliance agreement with Spence Johnson, a provider of global institutional data and intelligence, to bring together retail and institutional data, benchmarking and analytics. The combined capabilities will generate a unique global view of the global asset management market.   This strategic alliance leverages Broadridge’s Global Market Intelligence, a platform for retail cross-border fund data and analytics that delivers detailed information on 80,000 retail mutual funds and ETFs globally, and Spence Johnson’s market leading institutional Money in Motion dataset that provides detailed analytics on institutional assets, flows and sales, tracking over USD7 trillion in
Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX), the world’s first commodity exchange for physically settled diamonds, has raised USD10 million in Series B+ financing. The round, which closed on June, was led by existing investors Vertex Ventures and SDiX Chairman Alain Vandenborre (pictured). New investors in this round include Simon Murray, Chairman and founder of SMC and GEMS and former Group Managing Director of Hutchison Whampoa; and Richard Ji, co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of All-Stars Investment and former Asia-Pacific Head of Internet/media investment research at Morgan Stanley.   The new investment will support the continued execution of SDiX’s strategy to create
Synechron, a financial services consulting and technology service provider, is to join the Misys InFusion Partner Program. Synechron will develop two Centres of Excellence focused on Capital Markets and Corporate Banking to support clients across the United States, Europe, Middle-East and India.  The Capital Markets sites will cover the Misys FusionCapital suite of products for Treasury and Capital Markets. Corporate Banking will include the Misys FusionBanking solutions in Lending and Transaction Banking. This will complement Synechron’s prominent track record in these markets and its long-standing systems integration capability.   Brian Gibson (pictured), Vice President, Partners and Ecosystem at Misys, says:
Jason Ganz has joined US Bancorp Fund Services as senior vice president of business development. Ganz, based in Atlanta, will focus on the continued growth of the company’s alternative investment service offering throughout the southern and western states.  “We are excited to continue to expand our dedicated team of professionals serving the hedge fund community,” says Bob Kern, executive vice president of business development at US Bancorp Fund Services. “Jason’s experience and expertise in hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity, and middle office services helps strengthen our team and provides additional support for our clients.”   Ganz has more than
BlueMatrix,a publisher of investment research, has launched Postmaster, a web-based report publication and distribution solution for research providers. Postmaster enables firms to securely and automatically distribute research to aggregators, research portals, niche information providers, and client-specific destinations. Postmaster stores historic reports in a firm-branded library that can be made available on a per-client basis and used as a firm-wide historical archive.     With Postmaster, investment professionals can manage all firm contacts, subscriptions, and send customised reports to key contacts.   Jointly available with Postmaster is BlueMatrix Analyzer, a solution to collect and manage readership data across multiple as well
Ipreo and Hamilton Lane have launched Private Market Connect, a joint venture developed to help solve the existing data challenges faced by Limited Partners and address the information inefficiencies that exist throughout the private markets globally. Private Market Connect will focus on scaling, automating and normalising the information flow between General Partners (GPs) and Limited Partners (LPs) – ultimately resulting in straight-through processing.   This venture represents the latest evolution in an existing strategic partnership forged between the firms in 2012. Both Ipreo and Hamilton Lane continue to build upon their original shared goal of advancing industry cooperation and addressing
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, has released a new corporate action event, Further Public Offering (FPO). The addition of the FPO event enhances existing services by providing full details of company securities post Initial Public Offering (IPO), including any additional allocations made available to the deal’s underwriters via ‘greenshoe’ options.   Once a follow-on or secondary offering is announced, it is essential to understand the impact on existing shareholder investments. This new event type indicates the type of offering; whether for new shares, sales of existing shares or a combination
A survey of the alternatives sector conducted by Eurekahedge and AIMA Japan finds that fund managers in Japan now typically allocate up to 10 per cent of their total expenses on regulatory compliance. The survey of close to 90 firms with around USD375 billion in assets found around half of fund managers allocate between 5 per cent and 9.9 per cent of their total expenditure on meeting regulatory requirements, with a further 16 per cent spending more than 10 per cent of total costs. The findings are consistent with surveys that AIMA has conducted globally. A little more than half
By Nick Bayley (pictured), Duff & Phelps – A few weeks ago I visited South Africa where I met numerous buy-side firms, some with UK or European subsidiaries and some who operated solely out of that country.  Apart from the dreaded Brexit, the other question that in came up in all the conversations was to ask how much the tentacles of MiFID II might extend beyond Europe.  In short, what is the reality of its extra-territoriality?  Other related questions the firms raised were: What is likely to happen to current market practice outside the EU after MiFID II?  And will
The Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has held a meeting in Leipzig to determine how the Phelix Future for the market area Germany/Austria should be determined after the common German-Austrian price zone split. The meeting was chaired by Dr Michael Redanz, Managing Director of EWE Trading.   The Exchange has approved that the Phelix-DE/ATIndex will be calculated as a weighted average of the hourly day-ahead prices for Germany and Austria determined by EPEX SPOT. The weighting ratio of Germany to Austria shall be set at 9:1. “   This proportion takes into account the ratio of the

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