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Markit has appointed Matthew Kolby as head of investor relations.
He reports to Jeff Gooch, chief financial officer, and is based in New York.
Kolby has more than 17 years of corporate and advisory investor relations experience. He joins Markit from Deutsche Bank where he was director of investor relations, responsible for all aspects of investor communications in North America.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2011, he was the global head of investor relations advisory in JP Morgan's Depositary Receipts division where he established and led a global team of investor relations specialists who advised non US
- 24/07/2014
- 24/07/2014
A team at University College London (UCL) has evaluated the overnight process that maintains the constant maturity aspect of the GMEX Interest Rate Swap Index Average (IRSIA) Constant Maturity Future (CMF) product as an alternative to interest rate swaps (IRS).
The study, led by visiting professor Donald Lawrence, focused on analysing the cost of the end of day novation to the next day’s forward rate roll, analogous to the carry cost.
It concluded that an average year’s worth of novation cost would not be significant for any tenor during the period analysed.
It further concluded that the total lifetime
- 23/07/2014
Omgeo has partnered with London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) UnaVista to support tri-party matching of synthetic equity swaps between executing brokers, prime brokers and investment managers.
The offering links UnaVista, a global hosted platform for all matching, validation and reconciliation needs, with Omgeo Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM), Omgeo’s strategic platform for the central matching of cross-border and domestic equity, fixed income, repos, exchange traded derivative and equity swaps transactions.
The Omgeo CTM/UnaVista solution combines the respective workflows of the two platforms, automatically connecting investment managers on Omgeo CTM with their prime broker counterparties on UnaVista to match the
- 23/07/2014
BCS Financial Group has appointed Matthieu Ressencourt as managing director and head of equity derivatives trading in London.
Ressencourt joins from VTB Capital where he headed up the equity volatility trading until departing in March 2014.
He was one of the founding members of the equity volatility trading team in 2008 at VTB Capital and helped to develop both the institutional client business and options market making activity on LSE Derivatives, Eurex and the Moscow Derivatives Exchange.
Ressencourt began his career with Credit Agricole where he worked in both New York and Paris as an equity derivatives trader
- 23/07/2014
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has hired Jonathan Bohrer as chief financial officer, effective 30 June.
Bohrer will be based in New York and will report to Chris Grandi, chief executive officer of Abacus Group.
Bohrer brings over 18 years of experience in finance and operations across a diverse set of industries. As CFO, he will oversee the company’s financial and accounting activities along with other administrative and operational functions including human resources, real estate and legal.
Most recently he served as managing director of finance at ConvergEx
- 23/07/2014
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has approved Omni Partners’ application for an authorised licence under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
The granting of the licence allows Omni Partners to continue to offer wealth management and institutional clients access to its alternative investment funds as part of an EU-wide harmonised framework.
Citibank International has been appointed as independent depositary, complying with the requirements of the Directive.
Omni’s chief executive Peter Coates says: “It is Omni’s aim to be at the spearhead of alternative investment fund management best practice on a global basis. This licence is evidence
- 23/07/2014
- 23/07/2014
Marinus Capital Advisors, an asset manager providing comingled and customised credit solutions for institutional investors, has appointed Anthony DiNota as head of business development, a newly created position.
An experienced alternative investments professional and former lawyer, DiNota comes to Marinus from Citigroup, where he was the senior member of the capital introductions team at the bank’s prime brokerage unit in New York.
Prior to Citi, he was part of the capital introductions team at Merrill Lynch’s prime brokerage in New York.
“Tony has a diverse background and skill-set that will complement our growing team,” says Najib Canaan, chief
- 23/07/2014
William O’Brien has left his position as president of BATS Global Markets with immediate effect.
Chief executive Joe Ratterman has reassumed the additional role of president.
Ratterman previously held both the CEO and president roles from June 2007 through January 2014. He joined BATS in June 2005 as a founding employee.
The full executive team will report directly to Ratterman.
- 23/07/2014
Linedata has recently signed ten new hedge funds clients globally and has seen strong momentum in its front-to-back deals so far in 2014.
These funds trade alternatives and represent alternative subsidiaries of global institutional banks and asset managers as well as a number of start-ups handling between USD710 to USD1120 million in AUM.
Their primary driving factors for selecting Linedata Global Hedge were to meet growing investor demands, regulatory requirements and a desire to simplify and reduce vendor footprint to one or two key suppliers. Linedata’s new enhanced Portfolio Management Solution was a particular driver in the selection process for these
- 23/07/2014
- 23/07/2014
Capita Financial Managers (Ireland) Limited has been granted an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) licence by the Central Bank of Ireland.
The licence authorises Capita to take regulatory responsibility for the funds to which it acts as AIFM.
Capita Financial Managers (Ireland) will provide independent AIFM services to both EU and non-EU funds in the alternative investment market, including hedge and private equity funds, so they are compliant with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
AIFMD is an EU directive that came into force on 22 July 2013. It regulates EU and non-EU fund managers that market alternative
- 23/07/2014
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