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CRYEX, the new digital currency trading and clearing platform, is partnering with CQG, a trade routing, global market data and advanced technical analysis provider, to offer connectivity to its members and participants from launch.
CRYEX will provide a trusted gateway between the traditional regulated financial industry and digital currencies. The new trading and clearing platform will enable regulated market participants to trade both FX and digital currencies through a single point of entry, providing a wide range of highly demanded products.
“CQG offers CRYEX members and other market participants a tier one order-routing, risk management and data analysis system,”
- 11/06/2015
Trium Capital has launched the Trium Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund, which has been seeded by Trium Capital, and will be run by a team headed by James Jarvis, who joined the firm from PAAMCO’s Portfolio Management team.
The team has been built from the ground up to give investors a diversified portfolio constructed across both liquid discretionary and quantitative strategies. It initially consists of four lowly correlated books run by experienced investment specialists. The discretionary portion includes a fundamental long/short equity strategy and a special situations/opportunistic equity-biased book, whilst on the quantitative side there is a systematic macro and a
- 11/06/2015
Over the last 12 months, the South African hedge fund industry has gone from strength to strength and there is growth in almost all areas. Preqin’s Hedge Fund Analyst online service shows that since June 2014, the number of South Africa-based funds has increased from 104 to 124, while the total assets managed by South Africa-based hedge funds has increased from just over ZAR41bn to around ZAR66bn. In addition to the promising growth statistics, there are other catalysts set to help the South African hedge fund industry on its journey to maturity.
In 2012, South Africa’s National Treasury and the
- 11/06/2015
The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) has responded to the Fair and Efficient Markets Review (FEMR” report on behalf of its 11,000 members.
The CFA UK welcomes the acknowledgement that high standards of professionalism need to be applied across wholesale financial markets. The Society is also encouraged that the FEMR team has recognised that a key component of restoring trust is a requirement that market participants are appropriately trained and qualified and maintain their competence through continuous professional development (“CPD”)
A large number of those that work in the investment sector are members of a professional body
- 11/06/2015
- 11/06/2015
Deer Park Road is to launch a new fund – the SBF Opportunities Fund – on 1 July. The new fund will complement Deer Park’s two existing funds, STS Partners Fund and Burgess Creek Fund.
As with Deer Park’s existing funds, SBF Opportunities Fund will focus on mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities, but is expected to invest in a broader range of MBS/ABS securities. It is also expected to differ from Deer Park’s other funds by being more actively traded, and incorporating larger leverage and short components.
“The SBF Opportunities Fund is really a response to the numerous requests
- 11/06/2015
The long-term success of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHSC) hinges on removing the many barriers to participation, including features of the program that restrict trading strategies, introduce risk and create operational complexity.
That’s according to a new whitepaper published by Celent which was commissioned by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
Institutional investors continue to cite issues such as limited support for short selling, using Renminbi (RMB) as the sole settlement currency and the hybrid (T+0/T+1) settlement cycle as obstacles to increased usage of SHSC. This hesitancy is compounded by remaining uncertainty over asset fungibility, shareholder rights and
- 11/06/2015
BT is making it easy for investors globally to trade on the equities and derivatives markets of the Japan Exchange Group (JPX), Asia's largest exchange group and the third largest in the world.
Following an agreement between the two firms, members of the BT Radianz Cloud — the world's largest networked financial community — can now access a range of brokers and the market data needed to trade on JPX’s growing markets via their secure, cost-effective and reliable BT Radianz Cloud connection.
JPX joins a growing number of Asian exchange groups on the BT Radianz Cloud including the
- 11/06/2015
Independent agency broker and execution specialist Neonet has added to its algorithmic trading suite with the launch of the new “Capture” algorithm.
Capture is a liquidity seeking algorithm designed to leverage a number of underlying algorithmic models and methodologies across both dark and lit markets, depending on the client’s urgency to complete the order.
“We are very pleased to announce the addition of our new algorithm ‘Capture’ which gives our clients a tool to find liquidity in various scenarios,” says Tim Wildenberg, Chief Executive Officer of Neonet. “The client can dynamically control the algorithm by determining the urgency required to
- 10/06/2015
Stellar Trading Systems is to introduce connectivity to Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX), following the official launch of the NFX platform in mid-2015.
NFX is the exchange group's U.S.-based designated contract market (DCM), offering futures and options on key energy benchmarks, which includes oil, natural gas and US power.
"We are pleased to continue to develop our longstanding partnership with Nasdaq, to the benefit of our customers, who gain ultra-fast access to their innovative portfolio of exchanges," says Steve Thomas, Stellar MD.
Stellar Trading Systems provides cutting-edge futures, options, equities and treasuries capabilities to professional traders, providing connectivity to the world's
- 10/06/2015
For London-based managers who are still trying to get their heads around the various machinations of the AIFMD, and where best to set up an EU-regulated fund, help is on its way.
On 11 June 2015, at Malta House in Piccadilly, home of the Maltese High Commission, a special event hosted by the Malta Business Network will give investment managers an insight into the benefits of setting up an AIFMD-regulated fund in Malta.
Its timing is rather fortuitous given the continued level of growth in Malta’s funds industry. For managers, especially start-ups, tomorrow’s event will provide the perfect opportunity to get
- 10/06/2015
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