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Intertrust has appointed Cliff Pearce (pictured) asnted  Global Head of Capital Markets. Pearce has over 20 years’ experience working in Capital Markets with premier financial institutions and funds, originating and delivering structured finance transactions to a wide range of clients.  Pearce, who joins from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is replacing Robert Berry who recently retired from Intertrust.   In his new role, Pearce will oversee and build on Intertrust’s unique global offering of capital market solutions, with a strong market share in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Cayman. He will also be responsible for developing a
Exchange turnover in investment products and leverage products increased on Europe’s financial markets in the first quarter of 2017. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2016, turnover rose by 8.0 per cent to EUR30.5 billion.  However, this still represents a 9.0 per cent decrease year on year. Those are some of the outcomes of an analysis by Derivative Partners AG of the latest market data collected by the European Structured Investment Products Association (EUSIPA) from its members.  The members of EUSIPA providing input to the report are: Zertifikate Forum Austria (ZFA), Belgian Structured Investment Products Association (BELSIPA), Association Française des Produits Dérivés de
IHS Markit is partnering with OpenText, a specialist in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) to allow Counterparty Manager users to use OpenText’s Perceptiv Contract Analysis to automatically digitise and extract key terms from documentation. Tighter integration of IHS Markit and OpenText solutions will help customers address operational challenges around managing unstructured trading documentation, including Credit Support Annexes (CSAs) and ISDA master trading agreements. The combined solution utilises a sophisticated data model to digitise, organise, and extract data for review, as well as analysis to help address compliance requirements for Uncleared Margin Rules – avoiding the laborious and error-prone process of manually
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Matthew Stauffer as Managing Director and Head of Institutional Trade Processing, effective 30 June, 2017. Stauffer will be responsible for integrating DTCC’s middle office trade processing solutions, including the Omgeo suite of solutions, Trade Support Services (TSS) and the GMEI Utility, as well as leading new product development. He will report to Timothy Keady (pictured), Managing Director and Head of DTCC Solutions.   Stauffer previously served as CEO of Clarient Global, a partnership DTCC launched in 2014 with six founder banks to provide centralised services for all client data and documents
Cowen has completed its acquisition of Convergex Group for a total consideration of USD100.7 million (including seller transaction expenses) and is comprised of USD53.1 million in cash and USD47.6 million in Cowen common stock.   Effective today, Convergex has been renamed Cowen Execution Services and Convergex Limited, its London-based brokerage, has been renamed Cowen Execution Services Limited.   “The acquisition of Convergex enhances our position as a leader in high quality research and superior global execution capabilities,” says Peter A Cohen (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cowen. “This transaction is another step forward in Cowen’s overall growth strategy.
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 140.7 TWh in May 2017, pulled by its spot segment which jumped by 34 per cent, while PEGAS Futures slightly increased year-on-year. Moreover, an overall monthly volume record was reached on the CEGH VTP hub with 7.4 TWh (previous record: 6.6 TWh in March 2017). Spot trading volumes in May reached 62.9 TWh , which represents an increase of 34 per cent compared to the previous year (46.8 TWh). The Dutch market area TTF registered a significant increase with 18.2 TWh, a growth of 51 per
Cowen, following the closing of its acquisition of Convergex Group (Convergex), has made the strategic decision to discontinue the Millennium ATS midpoint matching offering. Millennium’s Form ATS has been amended to reflect this change and all subscribers and trading partners have been notified of the pending change. All midpoint matching in the Millennium ATS will end as of 23 June, 2017.   Jeffrey M Solomon (pictured), President of Cowen, says: “Over the past several years, many of our clients have expressed frustration with the amount of fragmentation in US equity markets. Some have also raised concerns regarding conflicts of interest
Agincourt Capital Management has expanded its use of INDATA’s Intelligent Portfolio Management software suite by upgrading to the latest version of the cloud-based software, iPM Epic.  Agincourt Capital Management is an institutional fixed income manager with more than USD6 billion in AUM, based in Richmond, VA. Agincourt, an INDATA iPM software client since 2012, had been looking for ways to better integrate, view and report on external data sources for use in its portfolio management and trading processes. As an institutional fixed income manager, data requirements are much more intensive than with other asset classes. Agincourt’s transition to Epic was
The Exchange Council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange has unanimously elected Michael Rüdiger as its new Chairman.  Rüdiger is CEO of DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, and has been a member of the Exchange Council as representative of public law credit institutions since the last election on 1 December 2016. He takes over from Lars Hille, representative of the cooperative financial services network (Genossenschaftliche Finanzgruppe, who will leave DZ BANK AG in October 2017 and therefore will terminate his membership in the Exchange Council after ten years. Dr Matthias Zieschang, Executive Board member at Fraport AG, remains Deputy Chairman. “Lars Hille took
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is to acquire Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Research division’s index platform.  The BofAML indices are the second most used fixed income indices by assets under management (AUM) globally, and upon closing, the AUM benchmarked against the combined fixed income index business of ICE will be nearly USD1 trillion. Upon closing, the indices will be re-branded as the ICE BofAML indices. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, and the transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2017. The financial impact of the transaction is expected to be immaterial in 2017.

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