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Patrick Beranek, a 20-year industry veteran and most recently the head of Asset-Backed trading for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has joined Mischler Financial’s capital markets division as Managing Director, Structured Products.
Beranek previously ran asset-backed trading and syndicate for Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. Prior to those senior sell-side roles, Beranek was a portfolio manager for Federal National Home Mortgage Corp (FNMA). In this newly-created role at Mischler Financial, Beranek will oversee primary market activities of structured products. He will report to Robert Karr, Mischler's Head of Capital Markets.
Karr says: "The ABS market has
- 23/07/2015
Backstop Solutions Group – a provider of cloud-based solutions designed to help the institutional investment industry save time, increase productivity and make better investment decisions – has partnered with Preqin Ltd.
With this partnership, Backstop users can now seamlessly integrate Preqin investor data into their Backstop CRM platform.
“Many of our clients are already using the Preqin database to source potential clients, so this partnership will further streamline their sales and marketing efforts and help them work more efficiently.” says Robert Goldbaum, Backstop’s Vice President of Product & Market Strategy. “With this integration, Backstop clients will have access to the
- 23/07/2015
- 23/07/2015
Murex, a provider of integrated trading, risk, collateral and processing solutions, has partnered with Omgeo, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
With real-time certified connectivity to Omgeo Central Trade ManagerSM (Omgeo CTM), the Murex MX.3 platform provides increased automation and straight through processing (STP).
Buy- and sell-side clients will benefit from a single platform to support their investment process, seamlessly integrated from the order management system (OMS) to post-trade operations and settlement, including exceptions management with brokers directly from a centralized end-user dashboard.
Simon Powell (pictured), Regional Manager of Global Partners at DTCC’s Omgeo,
- 23/07/2015
Following the successful launch of its first EUR354.7m European CLO in July 15th 2015, Tikehau has appointed Alison Goold as a Portfolio Manager in the European CLO business, which is headed up by Debra Anderson.
Goold has a wealth of leveraged credit lending experience spanning 23 years and bolsters Tikehau’s London based team, bringing expertise in syndicated leveraged loan transactions as well as private debt transactions within Tikehau’s European CLO business.
Most recently, Alison Goold was a Director in the leveraged syndications team at BNP Paribas, after being at the Head of Corporate Credit and a Portfolio Manager at
- 23/07/2015
Virtus Partners has launched a new hedge fund administration service focused on credit and fixed income managers. The offering is built on SunGard’s VPM portfolio accounting and reporting solution, part of SunGard’s Hedge360 suite.
Alternative investment fund managers looking to invest in credit products across the bank loan and corporate debt space are often faced with a bottleneck at their administrator, making it difficult to cope with the complexity of credit investment strategies. This also limits the fund’s range of potential strategies, impacting returns.
Virtus is overcoming these challenges by combining its expertise in credit and fixed income strategies and
- 23/07/2015
Cyril Meilland has been appointed Head of Investor Relations for Amundi in the run up to the Group’s IPO.
Meilland was previously responsible for research on European banks at Kepler Cheuvreux from 2010. Between 2008 and 2010, he led investor relations at BNP Paribas. Cyril began his career at Banque Indosuez (now CACIB) in the finance department, before becoming an equity sell-side analyst.
Meilland is a graduate of French business school HEC. He holds a master’s degree in banking and financial management from Paris Dauphine University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He was named Best Investor Relations Officer
- 22/07/2015
Fixed income investors must take action to protect themselves from stresses in bond markets as the squeeze on liquidity continues to plague the sector, according to Kames Capital’s Adrian Hull (pictured).
Despite the huge sums of money pumped into markets over the last seven years, fixed income continues to face a threat from a lack of liquidity.
With banks effectively forced to sell down securities they owned after funding them became almost impossible, and regulators across the world still making it less attractive for them to hold traded securities, this key part of the market has been forced to
- 22/07/2015
Deutsche Börse Group has received full regulatory approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate Eurex Clearing Asia.
This new clearing house of Deutsche Börse Group, based in Singapore, is an integral part of its new trading and clearing offering for investors during Asian trading hours.
As a next step, Deutsche Börse will file an application for Eurex Clearing Asia to be recognized as a third-country central counterparty with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Europe. After ESMA approval, the Asian clearing services will also be accessible to market participants based in the European Union.
The
- 22/07/2015
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) inaugural European Conference, the Global Summit 2015, will be held on 27 October in London.
The conference aims to broaden awareness of the important role alternative investments play in the European Union and help fund managers navigate evolving US and EU regulatory frameworks.
“As the global voice for the alternative investment industry and its investors, MFA is excited to announce our upcoming Global Summit,” says MFA President and CEO Richard H Baker (pictured). “This conference will provide a focused day of content designed to help managers gain clarity on what they need to know
- 22/07/2015
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for July 2015 measured 2.08 per cent, down from 4.72 per cent in June.
“July SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator fell sharply in July to 2.08 per cent from 4.72 per cent in June,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “While this reflects normal seasonality to an extent, the July reading is below last year’s 3.15 per cent for July and, in fact, matches the lowest July figure since the index’ inception in 2008. This is consistent with other recent SS&C GlobeOp data suggesting that investors are keeping their hedge
- 22/07/2015
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