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The search for liquidity has overtaken the low latency arms race, according to the latest update from  Object Trading, provider of a multi-asset direct market access trading infrastructure to buy and sell side clients.  Market participants’ survival is about more than simply managing risk and cost; it now requires reaching trading venues in unfamiliar regions and asset classes – and finding the optimal relationships between the buy-side and sell-side to access liquidity where it is growing, and create liquidity where opportunities await. This great reshuffling is already driving innovation, requiring new approaches to market access technology.   The international trading
Recognos Financial, provider of AI based data management solutions for the financial services industry, has launched Recognos ETI, a new data extraction platform designed to unlock greater context and insight from otherwise untapped business data.  Utilising the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), semantic and other technologies, Recognos ETI allows companies to extract, transform and integrate both structured and unstructured documents and data into useable business intelligence.     "Recent studies have shown that 80 per cent of all data in large organisations is unstructured, including many mission-critical documents such as contracts, prospectuses, and compliance documentation,” says
The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has appointed Anneli Tuominen as its Vice Chair. Tuominen, who is the Director-General of the Finnish Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA), will serve a 2.5 year term effective immediately.   She replaces Carlos Tavares, former Chairman of the Portuguese Comissão Do Mercado De Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), whose has completed his term.   Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, says: “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Anneli Tuominen as ESMA Vice Chair. As one of our longest serving members she has demonstrated her commitment to supporting ESMA in the pursuit of its
Alternative asset management firm Black Diamond Capital Management has appointed Todd Arden as Senior Managing Director and Co-Chief Credit Officer.   Arden will have responsibility for co-managing Black Diamond's underwriting processes and credit exposures and will also source stressed and distressed investment opportunities for Black Diamond's funds. Hw will be based in Black Diamond's Greenwich, Connecticut office.   Stephen H Deckoff, Black Diamond's Managing Principal, says "I am excited to have Todd join the firm and am confident that his deep experience in credit and distressed investing will be a great asset to Black Diamond.  With significant opportunities and challenges presenting themselves
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) and Deutsche Bundesbank (Bundesbank, The MOU is in relation to the cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision and oversight of clearing organisations that operate on a cross-border basis in the United States and in Germany.
Misys is to host a webinar to discuss some of the key findings of a seven-point Hedgeweek operational systems survey carried out in July 2015, which canvassed the opinions 50 global investment managers and highlighted the key pinch points being felt by asset manager and hedge funds as they continue to adapt to global regulations.  What impact is this having on their internal systems? And what are the problems that operations teams have with those systems in terms of remaining compliant and executing myriad reports for regulators and their end investors? There’s little doubt that the operational infrastructure within fund
Senior executives at financial services firms are concerned that regulation in the sector is not promoting stability, according to the 2016 Global Regulatory Outlook published by Duff & Phelps. A majority of 193 C-Suite and senior level staff polled by the firm believe that regulation is having little or no effect on stability, and potentially making the industry less stable.   Asked if regulatory changes in recent years have created adequate safeguards to prevent a future crash, only 6 per cent of respondents felt able to give an unqualified “yes”. Of the remainder, 37 per cent says they had not,
FINCAD, a provider of valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset, multi-currency portfolios, has added several key enhancements to F3, its object-oriented valuation and risk platform.  These enhancements benefit buy-side firms searching for alpha in a low-yield environment and pursuing multi-asset, multi-currency strategies.   F3 now enables unprecedented front office productivity, faster and more efficient integration and enhanced analytics coverage. Using the new streamlined workflow, the front office can now trade new instruments and asset classes quickly and confidently – delivering unprecedented productivity, expanded investment opportunities, cost savings and rapid return on investment.   FINCAD’s F3 continues to make integration between
Franklin Square Capital Partners, a manager of business development companies (BDCs), has unveiled an new structure for non-traded alternative investments that reduces fees and seeks to align the interests of investors, advisors, regulators and sponsors.  The firm recently announced that FS Investment Corporation IV (FSIC IV), an income-focused non-traded business development company (BDC), commenced operations with an industry-leading commission structure that responds to FINRA Regulatory Notice 15-02 (15-02).   The amendments to NASD Rule 2340 presented in 15-02, which take effect on April 11, were designed to, among other things, enhance the disclosure of sales charges on investor account statements.
A new study from The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) examines the monthly CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Index and the CBOE S&P 500 One-Week PutWrite Index, comparing their performance with that of traditional benchmark stock and bond indexes.  This is the first comprehensive study that examines the performance of a benchmark strategy index that incorporates Weeklys options.    Written by Oleg Bondarenko (pictured), professor of finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and sponsored by CBOE, the study – “An Analysis of Index Option Writing with Monthly and Weekly Rollover” – analyses the performance of the two PutWrite Indexes

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