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FastMatch, a Fintech company focused on foreign exchange trading, has joined the IPC FX Hub. IPC's FX Hub supports the global foreign exchange markets through Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in New York (NY4), London (LD4), Tokyo (TY3) and Singapore (SG2) as well as other major FX centres such as Moscow, Chicago, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Zurich.   All centres have connectivity to IPC's vast community of financial market participants and low latency access via IPC's dark fibre rings to key FX liquidity providers and dealers.   The collaboration between IPC and FastMatch enables market participants within the
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has appointed its board of directors for 2016-17, which it says is diverse in firm size and geographic make-up and comprised of fund managers, public and private pension funds, banks and accounting firms. It will provide governance oversight to MFA and help guide the association’s advocacy, education and communications efforts.   MFA’s returning officers are: board chair David C Haley, president, HBK Capital Management; vice chair Michael S Harris, president, Campbell & Company; and secretary Bruce S Darringer, member and chief operating officer, King Street Capital Management.   MFA board members elected Natalie Deak Jaros,
Capital raising boutique Hyde Park Investment has entered into a partnership with Archipelago Partners to broaden its distribution offering into the Nordic region and for Archipelago Investments to distribute its Nordic funds into Europe. Director of Hyde Park Investment Fabrizio Pasta says: “I worked with Anders Palmqvist, the founder of Archipelago, for more than 15 years at UBS, he has deep knowledge of the Nordic markets, and working with him allows us to offer fund managers a truly pan European solution for reaching institutional investors.”   Hyde Park Investment, founded in 2004, has offices in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and
Global macro investment manager Hathersage Capital Management, a specialist in G10 currencies and absolute returns, has been named Best Macro CTA Fund at Hedgeweek’s USA Awards 2016 ceremony in New York. The awards were determined by the votes of Hedgeweek's subscribers, who include institutional investors, wealth managers, fund managers and other industry professionals at firms including fund administrators, prime brokers, law firms, custodians and advisers.   Established in 2003, Hedgeweek is the industry's leading digital publisher covering all facets of the global hedge fund industry.   Hathersage was founded by Bill Lipschutz, who leads a team of highly experienced FX
Nordea Asset Management has launched the Nordea 1 – Global Long Short Equity Fund (USD Hedged), which aims to deliver a consistent absolute return and low correlation to the returns of equity markets. US-based investment boutique ClariVest Asset Management is the sub-manager of the fund, which is managed by a team of five portfolio managers, with Todd Wolter, the lead portfolio manager, in charge of overseeing the overall portfolio construction and risk profile.   “Building on the strength of our multi-boutique approach, we see this new liquid alternative product as an important complement to our range of solutions helping investors
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, has gone live with EBS Live Ultra, its fastest FX data product to date. EBS Live Ultra has two data interval rates: 100 milliseconds, the same as the current EBS Live service but with lower latency; and 20 milliseconds, five times faster than the EBS Live data product.   A direct response to EBS customers’ desire for ever-improving data provision, EBS Live Ultra delivers data to the spot FX market in real time. A low latency service, it will improve price discovery, enhance the lit FX market and increase
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is to introduce caps on maximum rates charged by LME-registered warehouses following a market-wide consultation. This is the final part of the three-year-long warehouse reform programme designed to enhance the LME’s warehouse network and to ensure that it fully serves the requirements of the global metals market.   “We would like to thank all those who took part in discussions and consultations over the last three years, which have been invaluable in ensuring that we took the most informed and balanced action in refining our physical delivery network,” says Garry Jones (pictured), LME chief executive.
Murray Devine, a US valuation advisory firm, has appointed Robert A Tribuiani as managing director, head of business development. Tribuiani will be responsible for developing, executing and managing sales strategies, focusing on Murray Devine’s key end markets, including private equity and venture capital firms, debt and hedge funds, banks and corporations.   With over 20 years of experience in consultative sales, relationship management and business development, Tribuiani joins Murray Devine from SolomonEdwards where he was a senior business development executive. During his 10 years at SolomonEdwards, Tribuiani focused on assisting the firm’s banking and financial services clients solve critical business
Kite Consulting Group, a financial recruitment firm, has launched Blocktribe, a site designed to list the best blockchain-related jobs around the world. Blocktribe aims to establish itself as a central go-to source of jobs in this area, and the first of its kind for blockchain in Europe.   With over 100 blockchain roles already advertised, the launch creates a central place for businesses to find talent in the rapidly growing sector.   Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to deliver significant business improvement and cost reduction across many industries, including in financial services areas such as payments, clearing and settlements.
Despite global bond investors being on edge at apparent central bank impotency, the probability of a sizeable bear market is low with a possibility that fiscal policy could prove effective, according to asset manager AlllianceBernstein (AB). John Taylor (pictured), portfolio manager – AB Dynamic Global Fixed Income Fund, says the major driver of the recent risk-off trade was the use of historically low, and in some cases negative, interest rates by developed-world central banks as they to tried to revive global growth and inflation.   “The countries that have resorted to negative rates to date – Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and

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