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Yieldbroker, Australia’s over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate exchange, has become the first foreign-regulated, multilateral swap trading facility to receive long-term approval to access US-based customers.
Yieldbroker says the move secures billions of dollars of trade business, removes commercial uncertainty and is one more step towards achieving the company’s vision of becoming a globally significant platform for trading in Australian and New Zealand dollar interest rate securities.
More than 100 major financial institutions access over 900 debt securities and interest rate derivatives on the Yieldbroker exchange, trading approximately USD200 billion each month.
Founded in1999 by banks in local debt markets,
- 22/09/2016
Ancoa, a provider of market surveillance and analytics to exchanges, regulators, buy and sell-side firms, has been accredited by Trayport, a provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges, as a Trayport Certified Software Provider (CSP).
Trayport's CSP programme is designed to enable third party suppliers to connect to the Trayport system in order to better support mutual clients.
Trayport’s conformance testing ensures peace of mind for both the provider and clients ensuring security, stability and reliability against Trayport technology.
The changing regulatory landscape means that many energy market participants now require surveillance and analytics tools to
- 22/09/2016
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange’s (TOCOM) new trading system, which is powered by Nasdaq's Genium INET technology, as well as Nasdaq Pre-Trade Risk and SMARTS Market Surveillance solutions, is now up and running.
The new system is now fully integrated with the Osaka Exchange's derivatives trading system (J-GATE), which also runs on the same Nasdaq trading technology.
The approach of a mutually-shared trading system between two separate exchanges is one of first of its kind in the world. Nasdaq and TOCOM have been technology partners since 2009.
"We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to our partner Nasdaq who has contributed to the
- 22/09/2016
- 22/09/2016
Options indices have produced noteworthy returns over the last 30 years, according to a study by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and Wilshire Analytics.
The study – Three Decades of Options-Based Benchmark Indices with Premium Selling or Buying: A Performance Analysis – commissioned by CBOE and authored by Wilshire Analytics’ Applied Research Group is the first to survey 30 years of data related to benchmarks engaged in the buying and/or selling of index options.
Wilshire Analytics analysed the performance of several indexes over a period of 30 years, from 30 June 1986 through June 30 2016, including five
- 22/09/2016
Managed futures traders lost 1.52 per cent in August, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge.
The index is up 0.62 per cent year to date.
“Fed chairman Yellen’s unexpectedly hawkish comments at the Jackson Hole symposium precipitated trend reversals in global bond and currency markets,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge.
All eight of Barclay’s CTA indices lost ground in August. The Diversified Traders Index was down 2.43 per cent, Systematic Traders lost 1.94 per cent, Financial/Metals Traders were down 1.03 per cent, and Currency Traders slipped 0.39 per cent.
“Commodity
- 22/09/2016
New York-based alternative investment firm Angelo Gordon has appointed Damien Loveday as managing director, investor relations.
Loveday will be responsible for enhancing and expanding the firm’s institutional relationships in the EMEA region.
Previously, he was global head of diversifying strategies for Willis Towers Watson.
Loveday will be based in London and report to Gareth Henry, managing director and global head of investor relations.
“Damien is a highly accomplished executive and we look forward to leveraging his deep relationships and alternative investment expertise as we further strengthen and expand Angelo Gordon’s global investor base,” says Henry. “We are
- 22/09/2016
- 22/09/2016
Timberland Investment Resources Europe (TIR) has held a first close of its TIR Europe Forestry Fund with an initial USD74 million of committed capital.
A diverse, mostly European group of limited partners made initial commitments to the fund, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies and family offices.
TIR has a value oriented approach and will be targeting 8-10 per cent returns with 3 per cent annual distributions.
GianPaolo Potsios (pictured), managing partner, says: “We are excited to be able to offer European institutional investors access to an asset class that is well established amongst US investors
- 22/09/2016
Eaton Partners, a placement agent and advisory firm for private fund sponsors, has appointed Gianluca D'Angelo as managing director – head of Europe and James Townend as director.
Both executives are based out of Eaton Partners' London office, representing continued investment in and expansion of the firm's capabilities in Europe.
D'Angelo, who has over 15 years of experience in financial services, is responsible for leading the origination, execution and distribution of alternative funds for Eaton Partners in Europe. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, he was a partner for global placement agent Probitas Partners UK, where he was responsible for
- 22/09/2016
Bridgeway Capital Management, an independent, statistically driven investment manager, has appointed Devin Benton (pictured) as director, institutional sales and client relations.
In this new position for Bridgeway, Benton will develop relationships with institutional clients such as public plans, foundations and endowments, as well as the consultants who serve them.
Benton will help strengthen relationships by listening to the needs of institutional clients and matching them with the discipline and expertise of the firm.
“We have seen how our investment philosophy resonates with the institutional market, and we needed a special kind of person to help us bring it
- 22/09/2016
Independent broker and financial technology provider ITG’s PowerMatch functionality, which provides POSIT Alert’s highest-performing users with notification of larger trading opportunities, is delivering average block sizes of 66,000 shares in the US and 85,000 shares in Canada.
This is about two times larger than average human trade sizes in POSIT Alert overall.
For small cap names, PowerMatch offers average block sizes which amount to 39 per cent of average daily volume (ADV) in the US and 27 per cent of ADV in Canada, as of August 2016.
PowerMatch notifications are available to all POSIT Alert participants with PowerMatch
- 21/09/2016
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