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Wolverine Trading UK Ltd (Wolverine’ has become a Member on TOM MTF as of 23 June 2016 and will start quoting as Market Maker in options. TOM MTF has accepted a number of new members recently and expects more in 2016. This momentum is a recognition of the significant liquidity TOM offers in Dutch options. TOM continues to connect international trading houses, diversifying and solidifying the quality of its order books.   Willem Meijer, CEO of TOM (The Order Machine), says: "Welcoming a trading house like Wolverine, means yet another established market maker with over 20 years of trading experience
State Street Global Advisors has won the sixth annual Funds Industry Football Charity Shield five-a-side tournament beating Smith & Williamson 2-1 in the final game held on Thursday in Shoreditch, London.  Hosted by Calastone, the global funds transaction network, the tournament has raised over GBP60,000 since its inception and this year will add a fantastic GBP12,500 to that total. In 2016, teams from leading fund management firms played 22 games of football to raise money for Make-A-Wish UK, the charity that grants wishes of children and young people living with life-threatening illnesses. State Street won this year’s tournament against 24
S3 Partners has launched its Blacklight Apps Crowding Kit (Black App) on the Bloomberg APP Portal at. The Black App uses S3 Blacklight financing rate data, which is already available on the Bloomberg Professional service, to deliver real-time analytics on crowded trades.  By connecting trading and financing market activities, the Black App provides Bloomberg Professional service subscribers with the ability to accurately identify short-selling events and a security’s borrow velocity relative to market float, real- time short interest, financing cost and supply capacity. The Black App also automates a traditionally labor-intensive process, streamlining the financing workflow of those borrowing or
IndexIQ has announced the performance of its family of six IQ Hedge Indexes with four positive, led by a 1.31 percent return for the IQ Merger Arbitrage Index.  Two – the IQ Hedge Global Macro Index and the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Index – showed negative returns for the period with returns of -1.25 per cent and -0.08 per cent, respectively. “Volatility has been growing over the last couple of months, which is broadly good for hedge funds,” says Adam Patti (pictured), Chief Executive Officer at IndexIQ. “There are enough uncertainties looming over the markets to keep things interesting through the
Financial institutions are facing a multitude of issues folowing the UK's vote to leave the EU, says law firm Eversheds, with passporting/mutual fund recognition likely to be a major concern for banks, investment managers and insuranace companies. According to Eversheds, institutions which currently rely on “passports” under the Single Market Directives, such as the Capital Requirements Directive, Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), UCITS Directive, Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and Solvency II Directive, may have to restructure their businesses.  Currently an institution, which the  Prudential Regulation Authority or Financial Conduct Authority have authorised in the UK, has the
Estera has bolstered its risk and compliance offering with the appointment of Risk and Compliance Director, Tui Iti who will be responsible for ensuring the company consistently adopts the highest global compliance standards across each of its international offices.  The newly created role consolidates Estera’s strategic approach to the management of internal and external risk. Iti brings more than 16 years of multi-jurisdictional compliance experience to the group, gained from working in both the onshore and offshore finance industries across a range of sectors.  Prior to joining Estera, Iti was Group Risk and Compliance Director for multi-jurisdictional fiduciary services company,
InvestCloud, a cloud-based digital applet platform for financial services, has appointed Graham Collier as the firm’s new Head of Technical Operations for Europe.  In this role, Collier will oversee the development and roll-out of InvestCloud’s technology for European clients, showcasing his management, technical and operational skills, and will help implement service delivery to serve InvestCloud’s expanding European customer base   InvestCloud’s digital applet platform, which is used by 660 advisory and institutional clients, supports over USD1.5 trillion of assets and following its success in the US, where it launched in 2010, is now rolling out operations across Europe from its
Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings Fund (BSCH), a vehicle managed by Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), has acquired a passive, minority interest in Marathon Asset Management.  Based in New York, Marathon is an opportunistic global credit event-driven manager with approximately USD12.75 billion in assets under management. The firm pursues credit through a broad spectrum of investments in global corporate credit, distressed and special situational credit, structured credit, emerging markets and leveraged loans. “Rich has been a great Partner for many years and we wish him success in his future endeavours. Vijay and I have worked together for nine years and I
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) offering on Thomson Reuters Eikon with a new application that enables buy-side professionals to analyse real-time ESG data and incorporate it into socially responsible investment (SRI) decisions.  Developed and supported by TruValue Labs, Inc (TruValue), Insight360 compliments Thomson Reuters existing ESG offering by providing real-time access to material, relevant data and events related to sustainability, and ESG statistics for over 7,500 publicly-traded companies.    ESG financial data incorporated in the asset management industry grew by 45 per cent over the last four years, representing USD59 trillion of assets under management.
Betty Tay, Managing Director and Head of the External Managers Department at GIC, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, has joined the board of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB), the global standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry. In addition, the HFSB has established an Asia-Pacific (APAC) Committee which will include: APAC-based HFSB Trustees Betty Tay of GIC, Chris Gradel of PAG and David George of Future Fund; and senior APAC-based industry executives Richard Johnston of Albourne Partners and Ted Lee of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). Additional hedge fund manager representatives will be announced in due course.   The

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