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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
Risk assets continued to be bruised and shaken during the second week of January, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. On top of the Fed tightening bias, the fear that China has engaged in a currency war and the likely deepening of the US earnings recession in Q4-15, have contributed to the sharp fall in stock prices. During the first two weeks of January, benchmark equity indices fell between the range of 5 per cent to 10 per cent, high yield spreads widened by 40 and 50 bps respectively in the US and Europe,
TOM has published a report analysing liquidity on the various exchanges listing Dutch equity derivatives ahead of the introduction of MiFIDII starting 2017. MiFIDII obliges banks and brokers to take all “sufficient” steps in order to achieve the best possible result when executing option transactions for customers.   In doing so, the bank or broker needs to decide on which exchanges it makes available to its customers and publish annually the top five list of exchanges on which orders have been executed.   In order to support the market with this process, TOM has published a report which demonstrates which
Mirabaud Securities, the brokerage and corporate finance arm of Swiss financial and banking Group Mirabaud, has enhanced its expertise in the petrochemicals sector with the appointment of David Thomas as oil and gas analyst. Thomas, who joined Mirabaud Securities to cover the oil & gas services sector, has now initiated coverage on seven stocks with a positive view of the sector. His coverage includes Amec Foster Wheeler, Aker Solutions, Petrofrac, Saipem, Subsea 7, Technip and Wood Group. This hire complements Mirabaud’s existing coverage of the E&P sector led by Richard Savage, and the Spanish stocks Repsol and Tecnicas Reunidas covered
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, has launched its EMEA Next Gen Algo suite, which is designed to enhance the trading performance of its institutional Members. Liquidnet’s Next Gen Algos are the only ones that fully leverage Liquidnet’s network of more than 800 global institutions offering over USD20 billion of EMEA average daily liquidity. Over 15 per cent of algo executions are traded in Liquidnet with an average execution size of USD590k (Q4 2015). Liquidnet is also introducing a special “I Would” feature which gives Members additional control over the blocks they access in Liquidnet whilst using the algo suite.
Marc Desmidt has been named Chief Executive Officer for the Asia-Pacific region at Point72 Asset Management (Point72). In this newly created role, Desmidt will oversee the operations of the Firm’s offices in Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore and will drive Point72’s strategic objectives throughout the region.   Seiji Onoe, based in Tokyo, will continue to lead the portfolio managers that focus on the Japan Sector and Howard Man, based in Hong Kong, will continue to lead all other investment teams in Asia, both of whom will report to Desmidt.   “Marc has spent a quarter century investing, managing and leading

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