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Style Research, an independent, global provider of portfolio style, risk and performance analytics, is launching a product to enable investment professionals to directly compare fund portfolios based on style factors.  Peer Insights provides users with deep, independent insight into portfolios, removing much of the speculation and hyperbole that exists in the industry. With more than 20,000 mutual funds now vying for attention, it's become increasingly difficult for investors to distinguish between portfolios, and for fund managers to stand out from the crowd. Users of Peer Insights can compare portfolios and fund managers either on a standalone basis or against industry
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new registration form in 2015 for alternative trading systems (ATS), Form ATS-N, which would make details for each platform’s broker-dealer affiliates and operations publicly available.  The proposal would impose new transparency requirements on all ATSs, also referred to as “dark pools,” which accounted for 15 per cent of total industry volume and 39 per cent of off-exchange volume in 2015.  TABB’s latest market note, “ATS Transparency: The Industry Weighs In on Proposed Form ATS-N,” recaps market participants’ concerns and lays out specific areas for enhancements that TABB believes will ensure an effective
GBST Holdings Limited (GBST) has released the findings of its initial study into blockchain technologies for international capital markets participants.  Tracking the ongoing benefits of digital disruption, the “Four scenarios for Blockchain in Capital Markets” discussion paper identifies the importance of distributed ledger technology and smart contracts as they potentially reduce inefficiencies and costs, as well as create new market infrastructure capable of challenging traditional capital markets operators. With a recent push by global consortiums to establish common standards for blockchain technology and further encourage its use across the wider financial services industry, the discussion paper is well timed for
Eurex Clearing has connected Bloomberg as an approved trade source for EurexOTC Clear, the Interest Rate Swaps Clearing offering of Deutsche Börse. With the addition of Bloomberg, traders using Bloomberg’s electronic trading or post-trade voice confirmation systems can now directly submit their OTC trades for clearing on Eurex Clearing’s OTC CCP. The first trade to be successfully cleared using this direct connectivity was between Société Générale and Zürcher Kantonalbank. The direct connectivity enables Bloomberg’s large sell- and buy-side community to benefit from straight through processing (STP) of their OTC transactions, reducing time to market and providing a valuable improvement for
McKay Brothers International has added Euronext equity index futures to its industry-leading Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. The QED service now offers select Euronext instruments at the lowest known latency at major UK trading centres.  Latency to Slough-LD4 is 273 microseconds, Interxion-LON2 is 140 and Quincy’s Central London POP adjacent to the LSE is 142. “Risk takers and risk managers understand that quickly receiving and processing key exchange data can meaningfully impact performance,” says MBI Managing Director Francois Tyc. “We are pleased to offer Euronext data at the lowest known latency to QED subscribers.” MBI’s UK Local millimetre network connects
Eons Energy Investment, a Cayman Islands-registered investment management company founded in 2015 by Weber Su and Jeff Shen, both based in Beijing, has selected Wells Fargo Global Fund Services to provide fund administration services for its first fund. “We selected Wells Fargo Global Fund Services as our fund administrator because of its keen insights into the investment management business, low employee turnover, and stability as a financial institution. We appreciate the company’s experience dealing with valuation in today’s increasingly complex global capital markets and the fact that the team shares our commitment to risk management,” says Eons Energy Investment Managing
The Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX) has launched the world’s first commodity exchange for physically settled diamonds. The SDiX platform aims to standardsze global trading in diamonds as an asset class. The launch of the exchange represents the most significant change in global diamond trading practices in hundreds of years. The platform is designed to enable accredited investors to trade diamonds as an asset class for the first time by providing an independent, electronic, and regulation-ready global market that creates a transparent price discovery mechanism for diamonds. As a result, banks, financial firms and investors will for the first time
More than 55 per cent of total revenue from Saxo Bank’s private clients is now generated from trades on SaxoTraderGO, just a year after the launch of the the platform.   Half a year ago, SaxoTraderGO was rolled out to the bank’s white label partners and today more than 100 white label partners are live with GO, offering their end clients the platform in the 28 supported languages. Saxo Bank has also unveiled a new global equities market overview on SaxoTraderGO incorporating a number of new modules – Indices, Gainers and Losers, News, Calendar Events and Overview Chart. Saxo Banks
Eric Syz is to step down from his role as a director of Swiss alternative investment company ALTIN AG following the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 9 May. The move comes after what the company describes as ‘constructive discussions’ with its largest shareholder, Alpine Select AG. Peter Altorfer who joined ALTIN’s Board of Directors in 2010 and has acted as Chairman since April 2011 had announced in an earlier media release dated 14 April 2016 his decision not to stand for re-election. Thomas Amstutz, a representative of Alpine Select AG, together with Dieter Dubs and Gerhard Niggli will join
Chicago-based RJ O'Brien & Associates’ (RJO) London-based affiliate RJ O'Brien Europe Limited (RJO Europe) has hired Peter Jerrom and John Burt as Senior Vice Presidents, Listed Foreign Exchange (FX) Brokers. David Mudie, Chief Executive Officer of RJO Europe, says: "Peter and John are seasoned FX brokers and terrific additions to the team here, reinforcing our commitment to client-focused, best-in-class service. We continue to expand and round out our institutional specialty areas from the UK, and this represents our first London-based emphasis on exchange-traded FX. It's a great complement to our growing global over-the-counter FX business that Tony Dalton is heading

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