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Infront, a trading and information solution provider for professional investors, has partnered with RSRCHXchange to provide its institutional clients with access to the RSRCHX platform, an online marketplace for institutional research.
The partnership makes institutional research from more than 140 research providers available on the Infront Terminal from 21 September.
It will provide Infront clients with a seamless integration between global real-time market information and research published on RSRCHX.
The RSRCHX platform is a research aggregation, procurement and management solution built in consultation with both asset management institutions and research providers to address the challenges of MiFID II
- 21/09/2016
Clients and partners of multi-asset trading infrastructure provider Object Trading will have immediate Direct Market Access (DMA) to CurveGlobal, when live trading begins at the new interest rate derivatives venue from 26 September.
CurveGloba, co-owned by London Stock Exchange Group, seven major dealer banks and CBOE, is the most recent addition to Object Trading’s global platform. It follows previous announcements of managed services expansions for venues in Canada and Australia.


LSEG announced the CurveGlobal venture in October 2015. It will offer market participants a new interest rate futures liquidity pool, cleared alongside SwapClear's OTC pool, to help generate capital
- 21/09/2016
Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has reached a milestone in its global expansion, with its network now providing over 10,000 trading links worldwide.
The Calastone Transaction Network brings automation to the global funds industry, which has historically relied on manual methods of transaction processing.
This is achieved by enabling fully automated trading between participant fund managers and distributors, regardless of technology and geography, making all clients fully interoperable.
As the network develops it provides more firms with ease of entry and efficient distribution into new markets through its common connectivity and infrastructure.
Calastone, in collaboration with
- 21/09/2016
Weeden Prime Services, a prime brokerage service provider for hedge funds and family offices, has expanded its operations to include an outsourced trading services desk.
Joining Weeden Prime are industry veterans Patrick Connors, Dan Lilly and Eric Savitz.
Connors and Lilly are pioneers in the outsourced trading industry, founding Greenwich Prime Trading as managing members in 2001.
Savitz joined Greenwich Prime Trading the following year in June 2002 following in his father’s footsteps. His father, Barry Savitz, is considered the founder of outsourced trading and established the first outsourced desk at Furman Selz in 1993.
“Our 20
- 21/09/2016
Boston-based asset manager PhaseCapital has appointed Michael DePalma as chief executive officer.
DePalma (pictured) will lead efforts to commercialise PhaseCapital’s current product offering and leverage the firm’s data, trading and technology platform to diversify its product set.
DePalma previously spent 25 years at AllianceBernstein and most recently served as senior vice president and chief investment officer of quantitative investment strategies and director of fixed income absolute return strategies. Prior to this, he was head of the fixed income division’s quantitative research effort.
“Leading PhaseCapital offers me an opportunity to do something entrepreneurial, and I’m excited to apply the lessons I’ve
- 21/09/2016
- 21/09/2016
BKCM has launched a Productive Asset Record (PAR) System, which is designed to efficiently create, manage and administer capital pools by combining the strengths of public and private ledgers using blockchain technology.
PAR System will use cryptocurrency tools to connect traditional and cryptocurrency financial systems.
The connection to the traditional financial system will allow the PAR System to be used by virtually any capital pool from hedge funds to charitable organisations to social lending organisations.
BKCM founder and CEO Brian Kelly (pictured) says: "In addition to leveraging blockchain technology to enable better, faster and cheaper capital formation, the
- 21/09/2016
- 21/09/2016
Neuberger Berman has launched the Neuberger Berman US Equity Index PutWrite Strategy Fund, which seeks to provide individual investors with exposure to equity market returns with less volatility.
The fund's investment approach seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through harvesting premiums from selling puts on US equity indexes combined with income potential from a conservatively managed collateral portfolio.
Doug Kramer, co-head of quantitative and multi-asset class investments at Neuberger Berman, says: "As equity markets push toward all-time highs, we are pleased to offer investors a defensively positioned lower volatility strategy that also seeks to maintain equity upside potential in mutual
- 21/09/2016
Cowen Group has appointed Craig E Zaph as head of debt capital markets in the company’s investment banking team.
Zaph is based in New York and reports to Kevin Raidy, head of investment banking.
“Craig Zaph rounds out a series of important investment banking hires in recent months and brings momentum to Cowen’s debt capital markets (DCM) practice,” says Raidy. “Providing clients with a full range of innovative debt financing solutions has been a cornerstone of our capital markets franchise. Craig’s leadership will further this effort. Craig has a significant amount of experience in originating and structuring debt products,
- 21/09/2016
- 21/09/2016
Virtus BR Partners, an independent Brazilian financial advisory firm, has formed a relationship with Oaktree Capital Management to pursue investment opportunities in Brazil and throughout Latin America.
Oaktree, formed in 1995 and headquartered in Los Angeles, is an alternative investment management firm with expertise in credit strategies and over USD98 billion in AUM.
Eleazar de Carvalho Filho, founding partner and CEO of Virtus, and Julio Herrera, managing director and portfolio manager of Oaktree’s Emerging Markets Opportunities and Emerging Markets Debt Total Return strategies, will oversee the relationship.
During his 30-year career, Carvalho Filho has served as CEO of
- 21/09/2016
Hedge funds gained 0.65 per cent in August according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year to date, the Index is up 3.37 per cent.
“An August calm set the stage for a profitable month with 70 percent of hedge funds reporting gains on the month,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge.
Fifteen of Barclay’s 17 hedge fund indices gained ground in August. Distressed Securities were up 2.31 per cent, Emerging Markets gained 1.40 per cent, the Event Driven Index was up 1.33 per cent, the Technology Index added 1.18 per cent, and Convertible
- 20/09/2016
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