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CubeLogic, a provider of risk management and business intelligence solutions for the energy, commodity, and financial markets, has formed a strategic alliance with Lacima Group. Lacima is provider of energy and commodities analytics to global multi-commodity and energy players.   Under the terms of the alliance, CubeLogic will embed a subset of Lacima’s risk analytics functionality within its platform to provide clients with a ‘one-stop shop’ for market, credit, and liquidity risk management and reporting.   Lacima’s numerical engines will provide advanced analytics to simulate spot and forward prices, calculate Mark‑to‑Market values for a wide range of contract types, as
In reaction to Italy’s referendum result, Michael Metcalfe, global head of Macro Strategy, State Street Global Markets and Antoine Lesné, EMEA head of ETF strategy at SPDR ETFs, part of State Street Global Advisors, offer their views… Metcalfe says: “Markets were uncertain about European political risk before the vote and now they will be seriously unsure. The no vote increases the chances of an Italian election in 2017, which given the popularity of the Five Star movement and their views on Europe, means that Italian assets will now attract an additional risk premium. The only potential good news in the
The implications of Brexit will be just one of several key topics to be discussed at next year’s sixth edition of ABN AMRO Clearing’s annual Amsterdam Investor Forum, to be held on the 7 and 8 March, 2017.  “The Forum will be taking place just a few weeks before the UK Government plans to trigger Article 50 to begin the process of formally leaving the European Union so it will be an interesting period,” comments Gildas Le Treut (pictured), Global Director Prime, ABN AMRO Clearing.  The most recent Forum, hosted at the Dutch bank’s headquarters on 17 February 2016, was the biggest it
City Financial has made four senior operations hires with Amy Wong, William Dumas, Justin Brodersen and Simon Taylor all having joined the firm with effect from 1 December 2016. All four will report directly to Lou Thorne, global chief operating officer.   They all join from Fortress Investment Group where they previously worked with Thorne in the liquid markets business.   Wong was co-director of operations and treasury, Dumas was co-director of operations, Brodersen was director of middle office, and Taylor was UK operations manager.   Wong, Dumas and Broderson will be based in New York, while Taylor will be
Velocity Trade has appointed Joseph Farrell as head of quantitative research. Farrell (pictured) is accompanied by senior analyst Tony Popowich.   "Joe's objective approach to research as well as his team's excellent reputation and track record made his team a natural fit for our firm and institutional client objectives" says Simon Grayson, Velocity Trade group CEO. "We look forward to combining our disciplined unemotional methodology with the best execution practices of Velocity Trade.”
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has appointed Michael Luk as the new head of fixed income origination and sales, effective 1 January 2017. Reporting to Chew Sutat, SGX head of equities and fixed income, Luk is tasked with spearheading the growth of SGX’s fixed income businesses through deeper and broader relationships with market participants. This includes extending SGX regional leadership in bond listings and driving institutional client adoption of OTC trading in the Asian bond market via SGX’s new Bond Pro trading platform.   “I am happy to have Michael join SGX. His wealth of experience will bring great value and contribute to the
Almax Analytics, a software as a service (SaaS) provider delivering actionable insights from Big Data, has appointed Ralf Roth to its advisory board. Roth spent nearly 20 years as a Deutsche Bank executive and another handful leading Elektron at Thomson Reuters.   He will support the company from his New York offices.   “I am proud to be part of the Almax team as their approach of applying natural language processing and deep machine learning to news data is unique and makes an existing dataset more relevant as a trading signal,” says Roth (pictured). “What is even more exciting is
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 144.6 TWh in November 2016 which represents an increase of 12 per cent compared to the previous year (129.3 TWh), supported by a strong spot market. Spot trading volumes in November reached 62.3 TWh, representing an increase of 36 per cent compared to last year (45.7 TWh).   The Dutch market area TTF registered a strong volume with 15.2 TWh, up 6 per cent compared to November 2015 (14.4 TWh).   A total volume of 28.3 TWh was traded on the German NCG and GASPOOL areas,
Italian corporate and financial law firm Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners has advised Francesco Trapani on the acquisition of a 9 per cent equity stake in Tages Holding by means of a dedicated capital increase, to be approved by Bank of Italy. Gattai Minoli Agostinelli & Partners team was composed by partners Bruno Gattai and Alessandro Dolce, senior associate Federico Michelini and associate Diletta Camicia.   Tages Holding current shareholders – Panfilo Tarantelli, Sergio Ascolani, Salvatore Cordaro e Umberto Quadrino – were assisted by Anna Di Vilio from Studio Galante e Associati.   Tages Holding controls three subsidiary companies: Credito
NewStar Financial has closed the NewStar Berkeley Fund CLO, a USD505 million middle market collateralised loan obligation managed for qualified institutional investors.  The Berkeley Fund is the fourth credit fund sponsored by NewStar to co-invest in middle market commercial loans originated through its direct lending platform.    The Berkeley Fund is NewStar’s 21st securitisation since inception and third transaction completed in 2016. The notes offered through this CLO transaction are backed by a diversified portfolio of commercial loans originated and underwritten by NewStar for the benefit of investors.    Various classes of notes rated Aaa through Ba3 were placed, which represented

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