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Societe Generale is launching a new range of leveraged listed products called Société Générale (FR) Turbos Infinis Best on Euronext Brussels aimed at enhancing returns on the short-term or at hedging investors portfolio on the medium term.
The underlying asset can be a single stock, an index or a currency pair, etc with a tailor-made gearing.
“We are pleased to welcome Societe Generale’s new product range on Euronext Brussels,” says Vincent van Dessel (pictured), CEO of Euronext Brussels. “After the successful launch of Societe Generale’s first Leverage and Short Certificates on the BEL 20 Index in 2014, this new
- 08/07/2015
Great Lakes Fund Solutions have launched CrowdKey, software-as-a-service (SaaS) that provides online private placement platforms with a white-labeled crowdfunding site and an outsourced back office.
CrowdKey allows platforms to accelerate their time to market, reduce fixed formation costs, perform a variety of vendor management and compliance functions, outsource their call centre and back office, and quickly begin to display deals for investors.
The vendor-hub features of CrowdKey allow online private placement platforms to tap into banking, legal and fund administration resources to keep issuers in compliance and actively structuring deals rather than becoming immersed in clerical work. CrowdKey is
- 08/07/2015
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Jim Turley (pictured), Co-Head of Group Technology and Operations (GTO) for Deutsche Bank, to its Board of Directors.
The Board provides direction and oversight for DTCC in the interests of its diverse stakeholders, while promoting safety and stability across the global financial markets. Currently, the Board is composed of 19 directors. Of these, 12 are representatives of clearing agency participants, three are non-participant directors, two are designated by DTCC's preferred shareholders, and the remaining two are DTCC's Executive Chairman and its President and Chief Executive Officer. Jim Turley joins the Board
- 08/07/2015
Sunday’s referendum has pushed Greece closer to euro-area exit. A Greek departure would plunge the region into uncharted waters, with unpredictable consequences. But policymakers have powerful tools to combat contagion and prevent a Greek accident sending the rest of the region back into recession, says Darren Williams (pictured) – Senior Economist, Europe, AllianceBernstein…
Greece has taken another big step towards euro-area exit following a decisive “no” vote in yesterday’s bailout referendum. While the referendum was not a formal vote on Greece’s membership of the euro area, it was a huge rejection of the fiscal discipline and reforms that go with it.
This
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Interactive Data, a provider of fixed-income evaluated pricing, is to provide hourly snaps from its continuous evaluated pricing feed to Algomi Honeycomb (Algomi).
Interactive Data will provide evaluated prices to the Honeycomb platform for high-yield and investment-grade US and European corporate bonds. The data will be available to help Algomi buy-side clients to achieve increased pre-trade transparency and price discovery.
“Our goal is to give our clients the ability to access pre-trade price data which can be used to help facilitate trades in increasingly illiquid markets,” says Usman Khan, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, Algomi. “Our Honeycomb buy-side clients
- 08/07/2015
New rules now under discussion in Europe governing asset managers’ use of trade commissions to pay for research could cause investors to cut ties with some brokers, decrease the availability of sell-side research in certain areas, and place small asset management companies at a competitive disadvantage.
That’s according to a May 2015 Greenwich Associates study, A Brave New World for Asset Managers – and the Brokers Who Serve Them, of 118 US institutional asset management companies, which found that investors believe proposed regulations in Europe would have a significant impact on the industry in both Europe and the United States
- 08/07/2015
Amundi Smith Breeden has appointed Bishop Jordan, as a Senior Vice President, responsible for evaluating and trading corporate credit opportunities.
Amundi Smith Breeden is the North American investment headquarters for Amundi, the leading European asset management firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management.
Jordan brings 14 years of investment management experience to Amundi Smith Breeden. Prior to joining the firm, Bishop was a consultant to Concerto Asset Management and DUMAC, Inc, providing corporate research, trading and portfolio management services. Earlier, Jordan was a Senior Analyst/Trader at Tiden Capital, LLC and, before that, at Silverback Asset Management.
- 08/07/2015
Kinetic Partners, a division of Duff & Phelps, has appointed Adrian Johnson as a Managing Director in the firm’s London office.
Integrating closely with Kinetic Partners’ award-winning regulatory compliance and tax advisory practice, Adrian will lead a new service to deliver outsourced business services to the investment management industry, including regulatory and financial reporting, management accounts, VAT returns, payroll and company secretarial services. This latest development at Kinetic Partners marks another exciting chapter of planned expansion and growth since it was founded in 2005 and acquired by Duff & Phelps in January 2015.
Adrian has over 20 years’ accounting
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Gold sentiment among private investors reached its highest peak for more than two years in June, according to the latest Gold Investor Index from BullionVault.
The Gold Investor Index measures sentiment towards gold using trading data from BullionVault, the world's largest gold and silver investment platform online.
Last month the number of gold buyers rose to the greatest in 18 months, while the number of existing investors who chose to sell fell 30 per cent from the previous 12-month average.
As a result, the Gold Investor Index rose to 54.6 in June, beating February's strong rebound from near
- 08/07/2015
Thirteen global banks, ICAP plc and market infrastructures The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Euroclear have joined forces with AcadiaSoft, to solve an industry problem involving margin flows.
Four global banks, as well as ICAP, DTCC and Euroclear are making investments in AcadiaSoft, bringing the total bank investors in the company to 13. In turn, AcadiaSoft will link its industry-leading MarginSphere electronic messaging service for OTC derivatives with ICAP TriOptima’s triResolve OTC trade reconciliation service and the Margin Transit Utility (MTU) to be operated by the DTCC-Euroclear GlobalCollateral joint venture. The links create an open, seamless, end-to-end margin
- 08/07/2015
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