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As declining open outcry options volume on CME Group's New York trading floor now represents just 0.3 per cent of the company's overall energy and metals trading volumes, CME Group will close its New York trading floor at year-end, subject to CFTC review.   All options products listed with and subject to the rules and regulations of NYMEX and COMEX will be available for trading on CME Globex, and for submission for clearing through CME ClearPort.   Since the company announced in Q1 2015 that open outcry futures trading in New York would end last Summer, average daily volume for
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has elected three new members to its Board of Directors. The new directors are Lester Owens, Managing Director and Global Head of Wholesale Banking Operations at JPMorgan; Paul Simpson, Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Asset Management Services at Bank of America Merrill Lynch; and Joseph Weinhoffer, Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of ED&F Man Capital Markets Inc.    The Board provides direction and oversight for DTCC in the interests of its diverse stakeholders, while promoting safety and stability across the
Atalaya Capital Management, a private credit asset manager, has closed its sixth Special Opportunities Fund (Fund VI) at its USD800 million hard cap, exceeding its USD750 million target.  Fund VI is the fourth consecutive oversubscribed Atalaya Special Opportunities Fund, representing an increase from its USD575 million predecessor, Fund V. Fund VI’s investors are predominantly public and corporate pension plans, foundations, and endowments. Like previous Atalaya Opportunity Funds, Fund VI will invest primarily in credit opportunities, the majority of which will be senior debt collateralised by financial, real estate, or corporate assets. Targeted investments include: specialty finance loans against small balance
The European Energy Exchange (EEX), part of Deutsche Börse Group, is to acquire the remaining shares in the Singapore-based Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX) from Freight Investor Holdings. The transaction will take effect as of 15 April 2016.  With this transaction, EEX further strengthens its commitment to become a global commodity exchange developing new asset classes and geographies, whilst continuing growth of its core markets. “With this transaction we are taking a further important step towards the expansion of EEX Group beyond Europe and beyond the energy sector”, explains Peter Reitz, Chief Executive Officer of EEX. “The Cleartrade Exchange commodity markets form
James Klempster (pictured), head of portfolio management at Momentum Global Investment Management asks, has quantitative easing become a victim of its own success? While it had been used before, Quantitative Easing (QE) really only came into our collective consciousness when the US Federal Reserve used it following the global financial crisis.  The purpose of QE is to firstly support or push the prices of assets higher, which in turn results in an enhanced feeling of wealth for the holders of those assets and secondly, because many of the purchased assets were fixed income securities, QE served to pull down interest rates.
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for March 2016 measured 0.90 per cent, while hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index declined 0.95 per cent in April. “Reflecting typical seasonal patterns, SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index declined in April 2016, coming in at -0.95 per cent, compared to 0.75 per cent for March 2016. However, it should be noted that the -0.95 per cent for April 2016 compares favorably on a year-over-year basis to -1.20 per cent for April of 2015,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
One of the biggest drivers of change in the alternative funds market in recent years has been large institutions investing directly into large blue chip managers, concentrating 80 per cent of the industry's total AUM in the upper decile of fund managers. Consequently, it could be argued that hedge funds have morphed in recent years into something that no longer represents the original essence of what a hedge fund was meant to be. Hedge funds used to be about making money. "Now it is about reducing volatility and generating risk-adjusted returns. The only ones really trying to make proper returns
Corporate, private client and funds company Hawksford has made three associate director promotions.  Rachel Keates (pictured), who joined Hawksford’s private client team in 2012, is responsible for the strategic operational development of the private client team and the wider company, ensuring both are well positioned to respond to the changing needs of an evolving marketplace. In addition to her client-facing role, she has been instrumental in formulating Hawksford’s response to developing international regulation, including FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard.  Since joining the company in 2014, Cherith Fothergill has developed Hawksford’s profile and positioning in Asia, including the launch of
IPC Systems has partnered with Algomi, a network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, to deliver DealCall, an application which will run over IPC's Financial Markets Cloud. DealCall will be integrated into both Algomi's award-winning Honeycomb platform and IPC's community of financial market participants, enabling Honeycomb users to swiftly and securely connect to their dealers. IPC and Algomi are working together to enable seamless communication for buy-side users of the Honeycomb application. With one click, users can access on-demand connectivity to their chosen sales coverage teams at their chosen banks. By bringing together the IPC
Markit’s FX pricing distribution hub service has added the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) to its network of trading venues, providing FX market participants worldwide cost effective trading access to one of the world’s fastest growing exchanges.   MOEX’s FX ruble market volumes increased 37 per cent in 2015 and FX derivatives volumes increased 112 per cent, driven by both on-shore and quickly rising offshore customer flows. Markit’s FX customers will benefit from plug and play connectivity to MOEX for price distribution and liquidity sourcing, as well as comprehensive post trade processing.  Firms outside Russia will gain efficient access to Russian ruble

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