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GreenKey Technologies, creator of an artificial intelligence (AI) and voice-driven collaboration tool for financial market participants, has secured a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for its system for human speech-to-text and subsequent interpretation of spoken financial trades in a fast and accurate manner.
The speech engine, "GreenKey Scribe," is trained on terabytes of financial conversations and allows for human error correction to achieve industry-leading transcription accuracy.
Scribe uses proprietary decoding techniques to transcribe audio up to 10 times faster than other engines and includes natural language processing libraries called Product Class Interpreters to automatically extract relevant
- 09/05/2017
- 09/05/2017
The performance of hedge funds, as measured by the Lyxor Hedge Fund index, was flat last week, according to the latest weekly brief from Lyxor cross asset research team.
It was essentially hampered by the negative performance of global macro managers, who had maintained short positions on the EUR vs USD and long positions on commodities (energy and metals).
As a result of adverse market movements compared to their positioning, the Lyxor Global Macro index was down 0.5 per cent last week. The remaining hedge fund strategies were in positive territory, led by CTAs (+0.7 per cent).
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- 09/05/2017
- 09/05/2017
The European Commodity Clearing (ECC) is cooperating with KB TECH to expand access to cleared commodity markets for trading participants.
KB TECH is a UK based software development company providing data management services and products to the trading, pension and financial markets.
KB TECH has launched a dedicated portal “KB Portal” which allows the entry and submission of brokered trades for trade registration on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) and subsequent clearing with ECC. KB Portal is available for the power, emissions and freight markets, as offered by EEX.
In the framework of their Straight-Through-Processing (STP) solution, ECC
- 09/05/2017
Rival Systems, a provider of trading and risk management software, has integrated into its trading platform QuantHouse’s end-to-end ultra-low latency market data feed.
The integration of QuantFEED into the Rival Trader and Rival API platforms further strengthens Rival’s multi-asset class offering.
The move enables mutual clients of Rival and QuantHouse to seamlessly pull QuantFEED data into Rival’s front-end trading and algorithmic strategy development software, with the flexibility to configure the market data to meet their varying latency and cost requirements.
The feed, including hardware, software and telecommunications components, integrates directly into the full functionality of Rival Trader and
- 09/05/2017
Hedge funds posted their fourth consecutive month of gains this year, up 0.54 per cent during the month of April, while underlying markets as represented by the MSCI AC World Index (Local) were up 1.17 per cent over the same period.
That’s according to EurekaHedge’s latest Index Flash Update which says that the Macron vs Le Pen run-up to the French presidential election provided some relief for the markets especially for European equities as expectations for a Macron victory in the second round seemed likely.
In the Eurozone and elsewhere in the world, economic data for Q1 2017 was
- 09/05/2017
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a provider of enterprise wide big data and analytics solutions for buy- and sell-side institutions and other financial firms, is introducing advanced finance analytics to help financial markets firms reduce downside investment risk and achieve upside potential.
These new analytical tools, part of the ALA OneLogic suite of big data and analytics solutions, offer quant-based augmentative strategies for portfolio composition using the proven academic concept of “second order stochastic dominance”.
The underlying algorithms focus on the entire distribution rather than a few statistical moments, leading to reduced downside risk and enhancing upside potential. Portfolio managers and
- 09/05/2017
Fixed income impact investing manager Community Capital Management’s (CCM) flagship CRA Qualified Investment Fund has exceeded USD2 billion in assets.
"We are excited and proud to share with our clients and industry partners that the CRA Qualified Investment Fund has reached another important milestone, surpassing USD2 billion in assets," says David Sand, chief investment strategist of CCM. "Reaching this level is a testament to the increasing demand for impact investments and the many investors specifically looking for fixed income impact investments."
CCM manages USD2.4 billion in assets – including the CRA Qualified Investment Fund, the CCM Alternative Income Fund
- 09/05/2017
Guernsey Finance, the island’s offshore finance promotional agency, has promoted Kate Clouston to the position of deputy chief executive.
Since starting with Guernsey Finance in 2015 as the agency’s first director of international business development, Clouston (pictured) has been responsible for leading business delegations and promotional activity in South East Asia, North America and Europe.
Her work has had a focus on evaluating and developing these target markets, through implementation of development strategies around emerging financial products, and attracting new companies or business to Guernsey.
Guernsey Finance chief executive, Dominic Wheatley, says: “Kate brings a tremendous level of
- 09/05/2017
- 09/05/2017
US Bank has appointed Joseph Giordano as president of its Global Corporate Trust Services (GCTS) division.
Giordano, who currently serves as senior vice president and head of the municipal and corporate divisions of GCTS, will take over as president effective 1 June 2017.
Giordano has more than 35 years of experience in corporate trust and the financial services industry, and helped lead US Bank’s CDO team to 53 per cent market share in little more than four years. Prior to US Bank, Giordano served in senior roles at JP Morgan Chase, where he managed CDO, asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities, and
- 09/05/2017
By Nick Bayley (pictured), Duff & Phelps – As a former exchange regulator, I have more than a passing interest in the mechanisms for price formation and price discovery. So, it’s interesting to see the start of what I think will be a extended period of price discovery for investment research, as the sell-side and buy-side try to arrive at a common foundation on which to value it, which is part of the unbundling exercise under MiFID II.
It will be fascinating to see how the sell-side will approach the question of what is the right price to access its research.
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