Last year proved to be a strong litmus test for the hedge fund industry, with a slew of strategies able to post solid returns in a market that witnessed an incredible trough to peak recovery between Q2 and Q4.

Avenir Technology Limited, a global developer of post-trade Financial Market Infrastructure solutions, has today announced that it is providing the technology for a centralised forwards marketplace for farmers and millers across South Africa.

Enfusion, a global provider of native cloud-based investment management solutions and services, has named Mike Berry as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and expanded its Client Services function with three new leadership hires.

In this latest podcast, we discuss how social media platforms are influencing asset managers, and how they themselves are them to improve client engagement and build brand awareness. The opportunities are huge… but so are the risks to getting it wrong. 

Dark Forest Capital Management, a systematic hedge fund, is to use the LeverData platform to centralise the onboarding and daily ingestion of data to facilitate the firm's investment process.

Glue42, a provider of integrated desktop solutions to financial institutions globally, and Velox, a data-centric, low-code application platform built for the front-office, have launched the ‘G42 Fidessa/Velox Appliance’. 

TORA, a provider of trading technology, has integrated its order & execution management system (OEMS) with BondCliQ’s US corporate bond consolidated quote and trade data. 

Newly launched digital treasury services management provider SH Capital Ltd (SHC), has appointed FinIQ as its digital trading platform.

Sycamore Tree Capital Partners (Sycamore Tree) has selected Allvue Systems (Allvue), an alternative investment technology solutions provider, as the software provider across all of the firm's strategies. 

AcadiaSoft, a provider of risk and collateral management services for the derivatives community, is to artner with LIKEZERO, a specialist in data capture and contract analysis technology for complex financial contracts.