Latest News
Dow Jones has launched a multicast news product, delivered in a faster, lighter format throughout the New York trading community in Equinix, a data centre and interconnection company for the global financial markets.
Dow Jones multicast news feed will be available in the Equinix Secaucus Campus (NY2, NY4, NY5 and NY6) International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres.
With this new, headline-only product, Dow Jones is expanding the ways financial trading firms can consume news.
The Equinix interconnection service enables customers to connect seamlessly and directly to the Dow Jones multicast news feed alongside other data providers and similar services. This direct connection enables
- 22/02/2017
Following the appointment of Mike Ward in October 2016 to head new business development, Global Prime Partners has launched a new structured products business.
Matt Robinson will serve as head of structured products sales, while Ross Trotman has been appointed as head of structuring.
The structured products division, initially for UK onshore clients, aims to provide clients with streamlined access to the best issuers of structured products combined with bespoke technology and tailored customer service.
Ward (pictured) says: “We have been fortunate to work with a great panel of issuing banks and developed a bespoke structured products platform
- 22/02/2017
PivotalPath, a technology-driven investment consultant, has added Josh Vogelstein, a big data and machine learning expert within the fields of neuroscience, statistics and computer science, to the firm’s advisory board.
Borrowing tools from experimental and computing technologies, Vogelstein is furthering PivotalPath’s efforts in the transformation of alternative investment analysis.
The advisory board will continue to influence PivotalPath’s multi-disciplinary academic underpinnings and actively improve the ability to convert qualitative judgement into proprietary quantitative analysis, achieving the firm’s mission to provide better intelligence for better due diligence.
“Joshua brings a strong academic background and unique knowledge of big data that
- 22/02/2017
Crédit Agricole CIB has partnered with Orchestrade Financial Systems, a capital markets technology platform for cross-asset trading and risk management, to overhaul its interest rate derivatives and FX Forwards trading operations.
Crédit Agricole CIB is the first major bank to replace its trading and risk legacy systems with Orchestrade.
Crédit Agricole CIB is migrating all front-to-middle office processing of vanilla and structured products from two legacy platforms. The bank now runs trading and real-time risk calculations on Orchestrade for its interest rates and FX Forwards business globally.
"Orchestrade enabled us to improve risk performance, keep up with new
- 21/02/2017
LiquidityBook’s SaaS-based LBX Buyside POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) has been selected by three West Coast hedge funds – Pier 88 Investment Partners, Zeo Capital Advisors and Solstein Capital.
Deployed by each firm in late 2016, the LBX Buyside platform provides a full range of order, execution and portfolio management capabilities, including real-time NAV, full historical P&L, risk management and reporting.
The global, multi-asset platform also includes the integrated LBX Connect FIX routing network, providing seamless, normalised connectivity to over 250 routing destinations worldwide.
According to Jackie Fertitta, Pier 88’s COO and CCO, the San Francisco-based,
- 21/02/2017
January data from Eurekahedge reveals that hedge funds started the year up 0.87 per cent in January with managers reporting performance-based gains of USD1.3 billion.
Investor subscriptions stood at USD1.2 billion during the start of the year. In annual year 2016, final asset flow figures show that manager saw redemptions totalling USD55.1 billion while performance-based gains stood at USD35.1 billion over the same period.
For annual year 2016, AUM for European mandated hedge funds declined 5.47 per cent with strong redemptions of USD27.0 billion recorded – the steepest outflows for 2016 among regional mandates.
The USD251.1 billion CTA/managed futures mandated
- 21/02/2017
Credit Suisse Fund Management has selected RiskSystem to provide daily risk reporting and investment restriction monitoring for the Luxembourg domiciled Credit Suisse (LUX) Absolute Return Bond Fund.
The CS Absolute Return Bond Fund is a USD500 million global fixed-income fund that seeks to achieve positive absolute returns, regardless of credit and interest-rate cycles, while adhering to a stringent management process.
Max Gnesi, director of Credit Suisse, says: “Credit Suisse had a specific requirement for an independent third-party risk-management provider. We are very happy to partner with RiskSystem and to use their engine and expertise to assist us in monitoring
- 21/02/2017
BT is linking up the world’s five main foreign exchange (FX) locations to help boost the competitiveness of its global financial industry customers.
The company is now offering BT Radianz FX express, dedicated high-speed links between financial hubs in the UK, US, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong involved in almost 77 per cent of the world’s FX trading.
The new Radianz FX express service offers low-latency and cost-effective, fully managed connectivity that will give traders faster access to market data across the five locations, while making it easier for them to execute trades. In an industry where delays of
- 21/02/2017
Regulatory reporting, data and risk management solutions specialist AxiomSL has appointed Andrew Wood as the company’s country manager for Australia.
Wood (pictured) will be based in Sydney and his appointment is in line with the company’s commitment to expanding its Asia Pacific (APAC) footprint and growing client base in Australia.
Wood has over 20 years of experience leading the change management teams in Macquarie Bank as well as Deutsche Bank
“As global regulators tighten reporting standards and requirements, we have experienced increased interest from financial institutions looking for a platform that is able to tackle cross-jurisdictional reporting requirements
- 21/02/2017
STOXX Ltd, the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business and a provider of tradable index concepts, has launched the EURO STOXX 50 Corporate Bond Sector, Rating and Maturity Bucket Sub-Indices.
They expand the EURO STOXX 50 Corporate Bond Index, which was launched in April and is the fixed income equivalent of the EURO STOXX 50, including the bonds of the blue-chip companies in the Eurozone.
The new sub-indices represent certain maturity buckets, industries and rating classes. The maturity buckets include 1-3 years, 3-5 years, 5-7 years, and more than 7 years. There are also a EURO STOXX 50
- 21/02/2017
- 21/02/2017
Special Reports
FeatureD
- Intel
- April 25, 2024
- Intel
- April 24, 2024
- Intel
- April 23, 2024
- Intel
- April 22, 2024
- Intel
- April 19, 2024
- Intel
- April 18, 2024
- Intel
- April 17, 2024
- Intel
- April 16, 2024
