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Reg-Room has launched Reg-Impact, a technology solution designed to help banks, broker-dealers, advisers, insurers and hedge funds monitor rule and regulatory changes, allowing them to assess the impact on their organisations and create implementation plans and reports. Reg-Impact helps to manage rules and regulatory assessments and compliance for an organisation on a real-time basis. It creates a forward-looking calendar and implementation plan for rules that require internal action to ensure effective compliance.   The rules are easily searchable by keyword or multiple filters including regulator, country, region, date-range and by type of legal entity, financial product or firm function.  
Seabury Global Markets (SGM), a subsidiary of Seabury Capital and a provider of FX liquidity management and trade execution solutions, has teamed with Spotex and SBI FX Co to launch a suite of electronic forex products. SGM has been selected by BYFX, the trading name of SBI FX Co, which recently launched a new leveraged foreign exchange business in Hong Kong, to be the end-to-end technology partner supplying a full suite of tools and functionality that covers ECN and peer-to-peer liquidity, back office systems, margin and credit modules along with other crucial components such as white label trading front end
RiverNorth Capital Management, a boutique investment management firm specialising in opportunistic strategies, has appointed Greg Uythoven as an institutional portfolio specialist. In this role, Uythoven (pictured) is responsible for supporting the investment management team by serving as a liaison between RiverNorth’s portfolio managers and institutional investor base.   “Greg is a highly accomplished executive, with deep asset management industry experience, strong institutional relationships and a demonstrated ability to meet client needs,” says Brian Schmucker, chief executive officer of RiverNorth. “We are confident he will be a valuable addition to our portfolio specialist team and we look forward to his contributions
Five of the six IndexIQ Hedge Indices were positive in January, with the IQ Hedge Event Drive Index up 1.7 per cent and the IQ Hedge Long/Short Index up 1.17 per cent.   The IQ Hedge Global Macro Index, which had declined slightly in December, bounced back to return 1.34 per cent in January.    The IQ Hedge Market Neutral Index was the sole decliner, dropping 0.02 per cent.   "The so-called 'Trump' market marched on in January, while international stocks had an additional tailwind following a drop in the dollar, also inspired by the President," says Salvatore Bruno, IndexIQ's chief
Institutional investors are looking for exposure to an ever-widening range of alternative asset classes, with half now holding allocations to three or more, according to Preqin’s H1 2017 Investor Outlook: Alternative Assets. Preqin reports that 9 per cent of institutions invest in all six alternative asset classes, a fifth have exposure to five or more, and over a third (34 per cent) invest in four or more.   This represents a notable increase over the past 12 months: a year ago, only a quarter of respondents invested in at least four asset classes, and just 13 per cent had exposure
Mirabaud Securities has enhanced its execution offering by launching a new electronic trading platform designed to provide efficient solutions compatible with advent of the new requirements imposed by MiFID II. Employing a wholly unbiased routing infrastructure, Mirabaud has integrated its market structure expertise into the core of its proprietary liquidity seeking strategies.   “MiFID II has introduced an entirely new set of obstacles for our clients, particularly in the areas of execution and liquidity management,” says Jason Rand (pictured), global head of trading at Mirabaud Securities. “Innovation is crucial in this environment and we have made it our top priority
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2017 measured 3.25 per cent, up from 2.60 per cent in January. "SS&C GlobeOp's Forward Redemption Indicator for February of 2017 was 3.25 per cent, which edged down the 3.27 per cent reported a year ago for February 2016 to become the second lowest reading for the month of February since the indicator was first reported in 2008 (the year 2012 saw the lowest February reading ever at 3.14 per cent, 11 bps better than the current month)," says Bill Stone (pictured), chairman and chief executive officer, SS&C Technologies.   "We view
Global Alliance Wealth Management, an alternative investment management firm with offices in New York and Hong Kong, has extended its Alternative Solutions Platform, soon to become available for accredited investors and private clients. Since 2008, Global Alliance Wealth Management has provided its global client base with access to alternative investment and private equity management solutions.   Extending on the company’s services, the Alternative Solution Platform will seek to deliver long-term capital appreciation whilst managing volatile frequencies throughout global equity markets. The extension of service is backed by a strategy that was previous available only to qualified purchasers of the company’s alternative
As alpha capture has become an accepted and essential practice at top tier European banks, it is also evolving in how it operates within the larger compliance and surveillance framework. Taking note of the specific benefits to firms engaged in alpha capture programs, TABB Group’s latest research, “The Evolving Role of Alpha Capture: Technology Matures and Opportunities Expand,” dissects the trends within the alpha capture space and where it is expected to grow moving forward.   In terms of explicit revenue, TABB estimates that alpha capture represents approximately 4.8 per cent of the commission pie globally. Report author Valerie Bogard
KeyQuant, a Paris-based systematic asset management company, has secured a USD100 million allocation from the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) of the State of Illinois. The investment decision was made after KeyQuant met TRS’ investment criteria for maturity, risk management, liquidity and transparency and was made directly from the pension fund’s USD3.2 billion Absolute Return Portfolio.   “Since our firm’s inception, KeyQuant has won notable hedge fund, CTA, and financial industry awards and recognition, as well as a devoted following among quantitative investors seeking uncorrelated returns. This substantial new mandate from TRS is an important step as a wide range of

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