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Cognolink, a research partner for hedge funds and private equity funds, has announced a new name and brand identity for the company, becoming ‘Third Bridge’ both in the UK and globally. This move is designed to align the firm’s naming and identity with its strategy and future growth plans under one unified, global brand.   Third Bridge provides private equity firms, mutual funds, hedge funds and strategy consultants with qualitative insights to better understand the true value of their investment opportunities. These range from one-to-one or group consultations between investors and industry experts, to syndicated reports offering unbiased intelligence on
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB), the standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry, has held its first table top cyber-attack simulation for hedge fund managers in London. The HFSB is custodian of the Hedge Fund Standards, and is supported by more than 120 hedge fund managers with $700 billion in aggregate assets.   The objective of the simulation was to explore the response of hedge fund managers to three realistic cyber-attack scenarios: data theft and leakage of internal sensitive data; financial infrastructure attack; and crypto ransomware.   These scenarios were chosen to provide simple illustrations of key challenges for
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has acted on the restructuring of the Sturgeon Central Asia Fund, to enable it to be one of the first funds to invest in Iran. Although the repeal of pre-existing sanctions is good news for those wanting to do business with Iran, restrictions still apply – it’s a case of fewer sanctions, not ‘no sanctions’. As a practical matter, banks and financial institutions have been nervous about committing themselves to support transactions with Iran, whether as service providers, financiers or simply moving money. Whilst many more transactions can now be undertaken with Iran there
Karson Management, a provider of reserve, capital and collateral financing solutions, and BNY Mellon have successfully completion of the first K-Note reinsurance collateral financing transaction in Canada. The patented K-Note financing platform has been designed by Karson around a number of BNY Mellon’s corporate trust, custody and collateral management services.   The multi-million Canadian dollar transaction involved the issuance and deposit of a K-Note into a reinsurance security arrangement (RSA) account established in accordance with the Canadian regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI). The K-Note is backed by a payment obligation of a third-party financial institution
Point72 Asset Management has named Jonathan Jones to lead its Investment Talent Development (ITD) group. Jones is responsible for leading the Firm’s mission to identify and recruit the industry’s brightest talent at all levels, from the Point72 Academy to experienced Investment Professionals.   “Jonathan’s diverse background in operations, recruiting, and talent acquisition makes him a superb fit to lead our ITD group and recruiting processes, says Point72 President Doug Haynes. “We are excited because his insight and expertise will help us deliver on our mission to offer the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent.”   “Jonathan represents the top
HazelTree has partnered with AcadiaSoft to enhance the Collateral Management capabilities of the HazelTree Integrated Treasury Management Solution. The enhanced solution aiming at delivering seamless integration between the industry’s leading treasury management and margin automation solutions. It is expected to be generally available in the first quarter of 2016.   The HazelTree Integrated Treasury Management Solution serves hedge funds, fund administrators, managed account providers and family offices with powerful, proactive performance enhancement and risk mitigation capabilities. The HazelTree Collateral Manager enables firms to correctly identify, analyse and value collateral, interfacing with either an in-house or third party accounting system or
Hedge funds lost 0.64 per cent in December according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index was up 0.29 per cent at the end of 2015, its smallest yearly gain since 2011 when it declined 5.48 per cent. The Index was unable to outperform the S&P 500 Total Return Index, which gained 1.38 per cent last year.   “The year ended on a down note for risk assets as investors pondered the implications of slowing growth after several years of tepid recovery,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge.   Eleven of Barclay’s 18
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider, and enterprise data management (EDM) solutions specialist GoldenSource, are partnering to offer a fully managed solution to capital markets clients seeking to improve their (EDM) capabilities.  The new combined solution has already been adopted by a New York-based investment and wealth management firm.  The deal will see Options deliver a fully managed, end-to-end application and hosting platform to clients leveraging GoldenSource’s widely adopted suite of multi domain data management products and services.  GoldenSource’s EDM solution is designed to allow investment management, alternate investment and capital markets sector firms to take advantage of
Cordium, a provider of compliance consulting, accounting, tax and software to the financial services industry, is evolving its EMEA compliance offering to a tiered services model. 

With a focus on improving the choice, quality, efficiency and consistency of their service to clients, Cordium’s EMEA compliance offering will now be structured according to four tiers. These range from Cordium Classic, which is the firm’s current service level, with the addition of three new service levels – Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. 

For all levels, Cordium provides comprehensive compliance infrastructure and methodology, hosted within their proprietary software programme (Cordium Pilot).
The South East European Power Exchange (SEEPEX) and its project partners are to launch the Serbian Day-Ahead market on 17 February 2016, subject to member readiness. Member tests have been conducted successfully and final regulatory issues are about to be cleared.   The launch of the SEEPEX Day-Ahead market will be a major step in the creation of a regional power trading solution for South East Europe (SEE) and is highly anticipated by the electricity market community.   SEEPEX will foster the development of a competitive, transparent and reliable electricity market for Serbia and South East Europe, boosting electricity trading

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