EquiLend, a securities finance trading and post-trade service provider, and Eurex Clearing, have agreed to connect EquiLend’s securities lending platform to Eurex Clearing’s Lending CCP service. The planned link, due to go live in March 2016, will allow EquiLend’s market
Veteran hedge fund of funds’ manager Dixon Boardman, CEO and Founder of Optima Fund Management, has commented on how hedge funds have performed in the recent volatile market. He says: “First, the recent downdraft in equities is a long-overdue correction
A new paper 'Passive Hedge Funds' from Mikhail Tupitsyn and Paul Lajbcygier from the Department of Banking and Finance and the Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics, at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia finds that most
Eze Castle Integration, a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services, today announced that SEC registered investment advisor Wexford Capital has selected the Eze Private Cloud platform for its fully managed, enterprise-grade environment. Wexford, which was formed
Contix has enhanced its social media event detection platform for traders, further enabling alpha-generating opportunities for retail and institutional traders. Contix has expanded to mine both traditional and social media to identify key market events that impact stock prices. Contix
Contineo, a new industry-backed messaging network for equity-linked structured products whose on-boarding subscribers include Julius Baer, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan and Societe Generale, has begun live operations. Contineo facilitates transactions between buy- and sell sides. Managing
Prestige Fund Management has registered its direct lending funds for sale in Switzerland with OpenFunds Investment Services AG, an independent Swiss legal representative and distribution agent. Swiss law now requires that foreign funds intended for distribution in Switzerland appoint a
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
Execution broker and research provider ITG has launched a new hedge fund platform for Asia Pacific providing integrated execution, order and position management tools designed to improve operational efficiency and costs for hedge funds. To support the offering, ITG has
A new white paper from Campbell & Company attempts to quantify CTA risk management. The paper says that CTAs often cite risk management as a key to their success. Despite this claim, the process for evaluating CTA risk management has remained somewhat qualitative,
