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IPC, a provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, tis collaborating with UK-based cybersecurity firm Post-Quantum to integrate biometric, encryption and blockchain technologies as a service via IPC's Connexus Cloud ecosystem. IPC is working with Post-Quantum to enable user authentication, non-repudiation and fraud deterrence technologies into IPC solutions delivered over Connexus Cloud.    The offering enables users of IPC's Connexus Cloud ecosystem to use Post-Quantum's modular product suite, consisting of biometric authentication, encrypted messaging and a blockchain enabler to counter increasingly sophisticated security threats.   Post-Quantum specialises in developing defence-grade solutions that protect global
Gordian Compliance Solutions, a boutique consulting firm specialising in regulatory compliance services for financial industry firms, has promoted four employees to managing partner positions. Each of the new partners – Ben Buckwalter, Patrick Dominguez, Yulia Kalk and Justin Schleifer – has been with the firm for more than three years and has been instrumental in its growth.   Buckwalter serves as general counsel for both Gordian Compliance Solutions and affiliate, Gordian Investments, a FINRA member broker-dealer. Buckwalter also serves as senior compliance consultant to the firm’s investment adviser clients.   Dominguez serves as the director of investment adviser services for
European Commodity Clearing (ECC), the central clearing house for energy and related products in Europe, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The Leipzig-based company was founded in 2006 through the spin-off and transfer of the clearing activities of European Energy Exchange (EEX) to a new subsidiary.   ECC was entered in the commercial register of Leipzig on 25 August 2006, only a few days after it had received the banking licence for operating the clearing house.   Since then, ECC has evolved into a leading clearing house for energy and related products in Europe.   Chief executive Peter Reitz says: “The establishment
Schroders is launching a UCITS hedge fund product via its GAIA platform – the Schroder GAIA Two Sigma Diversified – which will be sub-advised by Two Sigma Advisers. Created by Two Sigma Advisers, in collaboration with Schroders, the fund’s strategy combine US equity market-neutral and global macro strategies.   The fund aims to offer investors portfolio diversification through a liquid alternative strategy that intends to be uncorrelated to traditional equity and bond markets.   The strategy will apply a scientific and algorithmic approach to investing across thousands of individual equities and hundreds of macro markets, allocating the majority of the
Samuel A Ramirez, a securities firm and bond market specialist, has seen over USD22 billion in sell-side fixed income trades as of 31 July 2016, already surpassing its 2015 year-end totals. The growth is one result of the firm's strategic institutional team expansion that began in 2014. Today Ramirez has over 50 sales and trading professionals across seven trading desks.   “Ramirez offers well-rounded coverage for our institutional clients, including access to the primary and secondary markets, best-in-class credit and economic research, and 45 years of experience in these markets," says Samuel Ramirez, president and chief executive officer of Samuel
Investors redeemed an estimated net USD25.2 billion from hedge funds in July on the back of outflows of USD23.5 billion in June, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. The latest wave of redemption pressure brings year-to-date flows to a negative USD55.9 billion.   In terms of cumulative magnitude, the redemption pressures facing the hedge fund industry in the last two months are reminiscent of the second half of 2011, when in a four month span investors redeemed an estimated USD42.0 billion. Unless these pressures recede, 2016 will be the third year on record with net annual outflows,
Dynasty Financial Partners has appointed Matthew Marsh as director of investment solutions. Marsh will be responsible for leading investments solutions in the Western and Central divisions for Dynasty’s advisory firms, including the Dynasty TAMP, portfolio model management and rebalancing, SMA and UMA solutions, hedge funds, private equity, and capital markets.   Marsh will work closely with Scott Welch, chief investment officer, and Michael Moriarty, director of investment platforms, to provide Dynasty's network of advisory firms with technology and research to solve clients' investment needs. He will report to Todd Thomson, Dynasty Financial Partners' chairman who also chairs Dynasty’s investment committee.
Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI), part of Old Mutual Wealth, has appointed Diego Parrilla to the newly created role of managing director, commodities.  Based in Singapore, Parrilla will report to Paul Simpson, investment director at OMGI.   He will initially be responsible for promoting and building the GBP60 million Old Mutual Gold & Silver Fund to the institutional investors in Singapore and other markets in which OMGI operates.    He will also be working with OMGI’s management team to identify absolute return strategies across precious metals and commodities that are aligned with the strategic direction of the company, and with
Gramercy Funds Management, a USD5.7 billion emerging markets investment manager, has appointed Chris Tackney (pictured) as managing director and co-head of the Gramercy trading desk. Tackney has over 20 years of trading and portfolio management experience in emerging markets and will co-head the trading desk with Matt Maloney, managing director.   Both Tackney and Maloney report directly to Robert Koenigsberger, managing partner and chief investment officer.   Tackney, along with Maloney, will manage a trading desk that encompasses performing and distressed corporates, sovereigns, equities, credit default swaps and currency hedges. Together, they serve as key members of the portfolio management
Ancoa, a provider of contextual surveillance and analytics for exchanges, regulators and buy- and sell-side firms, has appointed Hugo Jenkins and John Barker to its advisory board.   Jenkins has spent over 30 years in the City in a variety of positions. His early career was spent broking a wide range of futures and options markets at Merrill Lynch and GNI, followed by a period working at the LIFFE exchange.   Latterly, Jenkins was managing director of the FOA (FIA Europe). During his 16-year tenure, he was responsible for delivering a range of policy, operational, compliance and business advisory services

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