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Cordium, a provider of compliance consulting, accounting, tax and software to the financial services industry, has implemented Electra Data into its Compliance Employee Level Filing (ELF) platform.
Electra Data, an automated data acquisition service, eliminates the need for Cordium to establish, manage and maintain data feeds with brokers that are servicing its clients by enabling the flow of data via direct feeds managed by Electra on Cordium’s behalf. The addition of Electra Data offers an alternative solution to existing account aggregation connections, thereby delivering added value and security to Cordium’s clients, which are granted easy access to over 500 direct
- 09/06/2015
Aviva Investors has appointed Rahul Khasgiwale as a senior investment specialist based in the firm’s Toronto office.
Khasgiwale will work closely with Aviva Investors’ strategic partners and clients in North America with a focus on our multi-strategy capabilities and outcome oriented solutions.
Khasgiwale joins the team with 14 years of experience in the financial services industry. Before joining Aviva, Rahul was the Investment Director for Multi-Asset solutions at Manulife Asset Management. Prior to that, he was an Absolute Return Investment Director at Standard Life Investments focused on retail and institutional clients and consultants in Canada. Khasgiwale began his investment career
- 09/06/2015
Sky Fund LLC (Sky Fund), a regulated US asset management firm, has entered into an index advisory agreement with a European ‘A’ Rated bank by S&P and Fitch Ratings.
Sky Fund is the Index Advisor and the bank is the Index Sponsor of a new actively-managed index of liquid alternative UCITS funds called SkyRank Navigator. The index is priced by an independent pricing agent with headquarters in Frankfurt. The index is actively managed by Sky Fund and the bank is issuing a principal protected index linked note.
Sky Fund and the issuing bank have launched a 10-year note
- 09/06/2015
BCS Prime Brokerage Ltd has been granted membership on Eurex, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange and the second largest globally.
BCS Prime has become a Non-Clearing Member (NCM), which allows trading participation and provides clients access to the Eurex exchange.
Clients of BCS now have access to some of Europe’s most traded contracts such as Euro Stoxx 50 and Dax, as well as additional liquidity in Eurex’s Russian derivatives. The Eurex Exchange offers more than 1,900 products covering all major and alternative asset classes including Russian equity indexes derivatives like RDXUSD.
This only strengthens BCS Financial Group’s presence and
- 09/06/2015
Morningstar has made leadership appointments to the Morningstar Investment Management group for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.
Dan Kemp has been appointed Chief Investment Officer for Morningstar’s Investment Management group for the EMEA region. He replaces Daniel Needham, CFA, who became President and Chief Investment Officer for the Morningstar Investment Management group in January 2015. The company has also appointed Robin Johnson, CFA, as Head of Portfolio Management, EMEA. Both appointments are effective immediately.
Kemp and Johnson each bring almost two decades of investment experience to their new roles. Kemp joined Morningstar in 2014 as co-Head
- 08/06/2015
Last week US Treasury bond and German bund yields spiked, both hitting a new 2015 high. On Thursday, 10-year German rates reached 1.0% before losing ground later in the day. Intraday volatility reached record highs and according to hedge fund managers, the main driver behind the moves in the fixed income markets is the lack of liquidity. Brokers and dealers hold a small and shrinking percentage of the Treasury market.
- 08/06/2015
Pioneer Underwriting Limited has launched its Zero Capital AIFMD Investment Management Insurance Policy enabling full capital relief from the 'other funds' provision of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Current policies which meet the requirements of the directive, do not typically address the requirement that the policy excess be held as additional capital. Pioneer’s Zero Capital AIFMD Investment Management Insurance Policy, solves this problem by affording a nil excess for the first loss, requiring no additional capital to be held at the outset of the policy.
Richard Coello Head of Financial Institutions Underwriting at Pioneer, says: "I’m pleased
- 08/06/2015
In today’s increasingly complex and evolving regulatory environment, fund managers expect their providers to have a sophisticated risk management framework that meets global, regional and local standards.
“The reality is we are facing increasingly risk-conscious clients who are very aware that when it comes to governance and controls, small leaks can sink big ships,” says Raj Purmessur (pictured), Head of Fund Services Bangalore, part of the Investor Services business in Deutsche Bank’s Institutional Cash & Securities Services unit. “Our business processes, technology and staff are regularly assessed to ensure we meet today’s regulatory obligations – this goes a long way to increasing
- 08/06/2015
After months of gentle simmering, America's jobs market is back on the boil in a clear sign the US economy has cranked up the gas, says Marcus Bullus, trading director at MB Capital…
In the frantic minutes that followed the release of May's surprisingly strong jobs numbers, both the dollar and Treasury bonds were the big winners as the prospect of a September interest rate hike suddenly loomed larger.
But equities balked at the thought of the increasingly imminent removal of the economy's low interest rate crutch.
It's still an open question whether the US economy will stumble
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- 08/06/2015
The Enterprise Data Management Council (EDM Council) has received approval for Financial Industry Building Ontology (FIBO) Foundations as the first of thirty data content standards for the financial industry.
FIBO is an open standard for defining the business terms and relationships associated with financial instruments, pricing concepts and financial processes. These “common language” standards are used to align the way financial institutions describe complex financial instruments and financial processes so that industry participants and regulators can harmonise reporting, validate data quality, aggregate transactions and analyse risks across the global financial system.
According to David Newman, Chair of the
- 08/06/2015
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