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Global advisory and fund administration firm Maitland has appointed Martina Swart to the newly created role of group head of governance services.
Swart (pictured) joins from Orbis Investment Advisory, where she was a senior adviser to the business, covering governance matters.
Previously, Swart held the position as global head of prime service legal advisory at Barclays in New York and prior to that, she held senior legal roles at major global financial institutions, including Citigroup, Citadel Investment Group and Credit Suisse.
Swart’s 15 years of experience in investment banking and fund management, has included management of legal, risk and compliance
- 04/10/2016
Chi-X Japan will launch a new venue, Kai-X, on 17 October, having gained final regulatory approvals and registration with Japan’s Financial Services Agency.
Kai-X is a Reference Price trading venue where investors can anonymously execute trades at prices equal to or better than those available on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
Trading will be enabled at prices equal to the TSE reference prices of best bid or best offer as well as the derived mid-point between the TSE best bid and best offer prices.
CEO Tony Mackay says Japanese traders may also use Minimum Execution Quantity (MEQ) to
- 04/10/2016
Seyfarth Shaw has appointed Gregory A Markel as a partner in the firm’s litigation department based in New York.
Markel joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York.
Markel’s practice focuses on high-stakes litigation regarding securities and antitrust issues, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and directors' and officers' defence. In addition, he handles high level internal investigations involving complex financial issues and is often retained by corporate boards of directors to handle serious internal matters.
Markel is one of only 50 lawyers in the US to have been named to the Lawdragon 500 in each of the
- 04/10/2016
- 04/10/2016
Ramy Soliman has been appointed chief executive of the new London-based prime of prime brokerage, Stater Global Markets.
Soliman is a well-known industry figure, with over a decade of experience in senior sales roles at Citi, IG and Integral.
Backed by Stater Holdings in New Zealand, Stater Global Markets offers clients institutional access to the FX market. The FCA-regulated brokerage launches with direct access to top tier bank and non-bank liquidity, technology solutions and infrastructure.
Soliman says: “The backers saw an opportunity to leverage my experience from Citi, IG and Integral to create a new, comprehensive prime of
- 04/10/2016
Edelman is one of the highest profile PR agencies in the world. With 65 global offices, Edelman is uniquely positioned within the communications marketing arena.
Edelman's Financial Communications & Capital Markets' global team focuses on reputation management, executive positioning and thought leadership development, strategic investment communications, financial media relations and communications planning and implementation. The team also supports a range of clients on special situations spanning shareholder activism, transactions, litigation and regulatory matters.
With respect to alternative investment funds, Edelman has an impressive roster of clients including Citadel, Highbridge and AQR, to name but a few. At the heart of
- 03/10/2016
- 03/10/2016
Sadis & Goldberg LLP is one of New York's leading financial services focused law firms. Known both domestically and internationally as a dominant force in the financial services sector, Sadis & Goldberg serves clients throughout the world and was recently ranked as one of the top five law firms for hedge fund launches in the 2016 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report.
The Financial Services Group is headed up by partner Ron Geffner and comprised of 13 attorneys that have each spent a significant amount of their career practicing in the private fund space, providing a compelling roster of seasoned legal
- 03/10/2016
It’s been a year since Cowen Group acquired Concept Capital (now known as Cowen Prime Services) and it’s safe to say that the year has been a productive one. Soon after Concept’s acquisition, Cowen Group also acquired the Conifer Securities prime brokerage and outsourced trading business.
As Jack Seibald, Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage, Cowen Prime Services confirms, since April this year, when the Conifer business was merged into Cowen Prime Services’ existing broker-dealer, the combined team has been busy integrating the businesses and commenced operating as one group.
“We’ve now accomplished that and successfully integrated personnel and systems,” says
- 03/10/2016
ACA Aponix, a division of ACA Compliance Group, provides financial services firms with a 360-degree, independent approach to technology risk and governance. Conducting a comprehensive risk assessment helps fund mangers to identify potential gaps and vulnerabilities, which the ACA Aponix team works through with each client to mitigate these risks.
"Our product offering encompasses cyber risk assessments as well as conducting mock audits, to not only help our clients prepare for a regulator visit but also test their ability to respond to a cyber breach, were it to happen," comments Anand Mohabir, Senior Principal Consultant.
At a high level, the
- 03/10/2016
Boston-based FundCount was established in 1999 and according to Mike Slemmer, Chief Operating Officer of the Americas, it is one of the industry's 'best kept secrets'.
"We have great technical capability. Our employees are passionate about this industry and giving clients the best tools. One of the strengths of FundCount is that we listen carefully to every client. FundCount's evolution over the last few years has been a joint effort with our clients," says Slemmer.
FundCount started life as a technology company focused on the hedge fund industry. As it worked on custom projects with more and more hedge funds,
- 03/10/2016
Multi-award-winning hedge fund administrator Opus Fund Services was established in Bermuda in 2006, subsequently expanding its footprint into the US with offices in Chicago (2008), San Francisco (2009), New York (2013) and Portland (2014). It serves over 250 fund managers and 425-plus funds with a combined AUM approaching USD13 billion.
2016 has been a year of organic growth for Opus, as evidenced by the recent establishment of a new operations centre in Manila, The Philippines.
“This development provides a scalable round the clock support mechanism to greatly increase processing power and allow us to deliver our innovative technology platform and
- 03/10/2016
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