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ACTIV Financial, a provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data solutions and big xyt, a provider of cloud-based data and analytics solutions across large datasets, are to launch the ACTIV X-ray Store, allowing customers to access delayed tick data from global trading venues with a unique data quality including master data, trades, quotes and market depth.  Data is available for download, visualisation and analytics. With the new functionality of the X-Ray Store customers now have access to: tick data for trades, BBO and market depth (market-by-price and market-by-order); convenient checkout via Paypal or Credit Card; download via http link; and coverage
Though the market data industry has operated fundamentally in the same manner for over a generation, the advent of cloud-based service delivery is bringing change for the options available to the capital markets community.  TABB Group’s latest report, “Stairway to the Market Data Cloud: As a Service Model Comes to Market Data,” reviews progress in security, operations and API suites that now enable next generation delivery of cloud based market data services.   According to report author Terry Roche, who interviewed a select group of senior executives at both buy- and sell-side firms for the study, the time is ripe
TIGF, the French natural gas system and storage operator, is to extend the operating schedule of market-based balancing operations on the Trading Region South hub via the PEGAS platform as of 15 February 2017.  TIGF’s interventions on PEGAS previously took place on weekdays only. In order to cope with the latest regulations on balancing, TIGF has decided to extend its operations on PEGAS TRS Within-Day contract seven days a week. To limit operational risks, as well as organisational costs and constraints, TIGF decided to perform its interventions through a system of automatic algorithms. A strictly regulated and non-predictive mechanism, as
Hedge fund performance is flat year to date, with Global Macro and CTAs down, while Fixed Income Arbitrage and Event Driven have outperformed, according to Lyxor’s latest Hedge Fund Brief. Lyxor says that CTA and Macro managers suffered on their FX bucket and in particular on their long USD positions versus the Euro. Some Macro managers maintaining a preference for European equities were also penalised to the extent that the European equity market underperformed the US market. Some CTAs were penalized by long energy contracts within the commodity space. On the positive side, Fixed Income Arbitrage and L/S Credit funds
One of the persistent pain points for alternative fund managers is finding a way to streamline the investor onboarding process by automating the subscription document process. To date, this has remained a notoriously inefficient and error-prone set of processes, stymieing the ability for managers – both hedge funds and PERE funds – to bring investor capital into funds and put that capital to work in a timely fashion.  Focus on the front office A recent survey by MergerMarket and Pepper Hamilton (Going the Distance: The Expanding Lifecycles of Private Equity Funds) finds that the entire lifecycle of PE
Heptagon Capital has launched three new UCITS funds for US-based managers via it’s USD2 billion Irish UCITS fund company. This takes to 11 the total number of strategies now available to UCITS fund investors. December manager launches resulted in a raise of USD145 million for the Emerging Market Equity strategy managed by Driehaus Capital Management in Chicago. In addition, USD25 million was raised for the Driehaus US Micro Cap Equity strategy, which has outperformed in 18 of its 20 years of existence, and whose composite is the top-performing US equity strategy of any style in the eVestment All US Equity
Close to 70 per cent of fund manager clients, prospective clients and consultants attending a Northern Trust event on regulation believe that the upcoming regulatory environment will demand more of their time, compared with time spent over the past year. Despite the increasing amount of time required to comply with regulatory compliance, the majority of those surveyed (60 per cent) had not considered utilising technologies such as Blockchain, big data, robo advisors and cognitive computing, to aid regulatory compliance. “Whilst the time spent complying with new regulation remains one of the greatest challenges for fund managers, it is not surprising
JonesTrading Institutional Services has appointed David Walrod (pictured) as a Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Research in the firm’s New York office. Walrod will focus initially on mortgage REIT’s. JonesTrading research provides portfolio managers and traders with market colour and information that aid in developing investment strategies. Walrod has over 20 years’ experience. Prior to JonesTrading, he was an Equity Research Analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann. He served as a Financial Sector Specialist at JP Morgan and a Senior Equity Analyst at Ridgeworth Capital Management, covering financial services stocks. He began his career as an Equity Analyst at Keybanc Capital
Euronext has formed a strategic partnership with AX Trading, a US-based FinTech company, to create a new block trading service for equities.  The platform will be based on AX Trading’s leading edge technology and owned and operated by Euronext. The service will cover large in scale orders in European equities from small caps to blue chips. Market participants across Europe will be able to execute blocks in a trusted environment that bridges the gap between human, high-touch trading and electronic, low-touch execution. The platform is scheduled for launch in mid-2017 pending regulatory approval.   Regulatory change, technology, best execution and
Australia-based litigation funder IMF Bentham, on behalf of its US affiliate Bentham IMF, has launched a USD200 million vehicle expressly to back its growing US portfolio. This is the parent company’s first formal investment vehicle and will be used exclusively to finance its US cases and investments. Bentham’s unnamed partner, affiliated with a prominent hedge fund, is committing USD150 million while IMF Bentham will commit up to USD50 million. Since launching US operations in 2011, Bentham has made 45 separate investments in American litigation matters, concluding 14 of those with an average internal rate of return of 83 per cent

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