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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
- 20/01/2016
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
- 20/01/2016
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
- 20/01/2016
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
- 20/01/2016
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
- 19/01/2016
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).
- 19/01/2016
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
- 19/01/2016
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,
- 19/01/2016
- 19/01/2016
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
- 19/01/2016
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
- 18/01/2016
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