The National Futures Association (NFA) has ordered Cap Ex Partners, a commodity trading advisor located in Westminster, California, to permanently withdraw from NFA membership. The NFA has also ordered Keith R Bramlett and Ralph H Johnson, associated persons and listed
IRG Limited and Oria Capital have launched The ShinAsia Fund, an opportunity for investors to participate in the Asian technology-med
At the end of November the Cayman Islands’ hedge fund industry passed a milestone with the registration of the 10,000th fund to be authorised by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority since the pass
The civil trial arising from the collapse of Weavering Capital (UK) Limited (Weavering Capital) against its founder Magnus Peterson (and others) commences in the High Court today (Monday 17 October). Weavering Capital is the former London-based hedge fund management firm
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved a series of broad comparability determinations that would permit substituted compliance with non-US regulatory regimes as compared to certain swaps provisions of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Commission’s regulations. Substituted
Leading European corporate firm, SJ Berwin LLP has opened an Italian operation headed by buy-out and acquisition finance specialist Alberto Morano. The firm has ju
Massimo Capuano, President and CEO of Borsa Italiana, has been reappointed as President of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE). The decision was
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) has issued a time-limited no-action letter to the Singapore Exchange Derivatives Clearing Limited (SGX-DC). In the letter, DCR states that it will not recommend that the Commission take enforcement
With Guernsey’s new opt-in AIFMD equivalent regime effective from 2 January 2014, Fiona Le Poidevin, chief executive of Guernsey Finance, explores how the island offers optionality and substance to fund managers. There is no escaping from the fact that the
Last week the US Treasury Department formally dropped its proposals for anti-money laundering regulations governing the hedge fund industry.
