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International investors will be able to access the domestic Chilean capital markets with increased ease as of 1 February 2017, following close cooperation between the Chilean Ministry of Finance and Euroclear to align the country’s post-trade processes with international standards. For the first time, Republic of Chile government bonds, denominated and payable in pesos have simultaneously been made available to domestic and international investors, in accordance with the financial integration agenda promoted by the Chilean government.   The government bonds offered and sold to international investors representing approximately 20 per cent of the global issuance, were settled through Euroclear Bank’s
Professional Partners Administration has reached an agreement to sell its authorised corporate director (ACD) operation, Fund Partners, to independent Luxembourg-based fund management company FundRock Management Company. Subject to regulatory approval and final contract details, the two parties hope the agreement will be signed and sealed within the next two to three months.   Professional Partners chairman Paul Wilcox says: “We acquired Fund Partners from IFDS a few years ago, where it operated more or less as a service company for fund managers using their administration services.   “We have worked hard on turning it into the UK’s leading independent ACD
Visible Alpha has acquired ONEaccess, a corporate access, resource tracking and broker valuation platform with more than 185 contributing sell-side firms and 150 buy-side client firms. The purchase of ONEaccess will enable Visible Alpha to accelerate its goal of changing the way investment professionals uncover and measure insights from sell-side content, including research, financial models and corporate access.   Since its inception in 2014, ONEaccess has been fostering improved collaboration between brokers and their clients. Its sell-side solutions have brought greater efficiencies and transparency to the distribution, control, and reporting of broker content. Through a single access point, sell-side clients can
Saxo Bank is integrating Autochartist’s tools into SaxoTraderGO, enabling clients to trade based on automated technical analysis and live trade signals across asset classes. “With the deep integration of Autochartist we further enhance the analysis tools available to clients. There is no need to open other browsers, run applications or third-party setups. The deep integration works seamlessly across devices and makes technical analysis and live trade signals actionable right at the clients’ fingertips,” says Kim Cramer Larsson (pictured), platform manager and technical analyst, Saxo Bank.   Ilan Azbel, CEO, Autochartist, says: “Saxo’s collaboration with Autochartist is an example of how
Garry Jones, the London Metal Exchanges’ (LME) chief executive and an executive director of the LME and LME Clear (LMEC), is retiring from all his positions within the HKEX Group, including at the LME and LMEC, with immediate effect. Jones (pictured) has agreed to serve as an adviser to the LME until the end of the year.   Matthew Chamberlain, the LME’s chief operating officer (COO), has been appointed interim chief executive of the LME with immediate effect. Andrew Dodsworth, the LME’s head of market operations, has been appointed Interim COO with immediate effect.   Chamberlain joined the LME in November
Silverfinch, a look-through and data distribution hub for client regulatory reporting, has launched new templates to its data model in response to the upcoming Key Information Document (KID) regulation for Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs). Both the European PRIIPs Template (EPT) and the Comfort European PRIIPs Templates (CEPT) have been added to Silverfinch’s solution.   Each template has been designed to facilitate the distribution and aggregation of the data required by PRIIPs on behalf of asset managers and insurers. The templates can be used in conjunction with Silverfinch’s existing Solvency II template and will be delivered in the
Capita Asset Services has appointed Andrea Lennon as head of business development of its Irish funds business. Lennon (pictured) joins Capita Asset Services from BNY Mellon, where she spent the last eight years working in both relationship and business development roles. Lennon was responsible for the oversight and management of large complex corporate and institutional clients and had responsibility to generate revenue by marketing the full array of investment and asset services to complex mutual fund managers.   As head of business development, Lennon will focus on continuing to grow the funds business in Ireland which incorporates both a fund administration business
Commissioner J Christopher Giancarlo has been named as acting chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Giancarlo (pictured) joined the CFTC on 16 June 2014 after being unanimously confirmed by the US Senate on 3 June 2014, to serve as a commissioner of the CFTC, the federal agency that oversees the commodity futures, options and swaps industry.   Giancarlo succeeds Timothy Massad who has served as chairman since 5 June 2014.
HFR’s latest report finds that total hedge fund industry capital rose for the third consecutive quarter, surpassing the USD3 trillion milestone for the first time. Total assets increased by USD46.8 billion in 4Q16, ending the year at USD3.02 trillion, the second consecutive quarterly record for industry capital. For the full year 2016 (FY16), total hedge fund industry capital increased by USD121 billion, the largest annual increase since 2014. The growth of hedge fund assets occurred against a challenging backdrop of continued investor withdrawals, as redemptions totalled USD18.7 billion in 4Q16 (0.63 per cent of industry assets at the beginning the
Muzinich & Co’s Emerging Markets Short Duration Fund has reached USD500 million in assets under management in less than three and a half years. Launched in July 2013 and managed by Warren Hyland (pictured), the fund has returned 10.20 per cent (net) since inception with a Sharpe Ratio of 1.07.   Hyland and his team primarily invest in corporate investment grade and high yield bonds with short maturities and a duration-to-worst of up to two and a half years. Supported by Muzinich’s global credit research team, they combine bottom-up security selection with a macroeconomic approach to shape regional and sectoral

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