The past few years have seen a substantial increase in programme trading on exchanges and an increase in the role played by high-frequency algorithmic traders.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has concluded the first primary market auction of EU emission allowances (EUA) for the third trading period on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. As planned, a volume of three million EUA was auctioned
Charter Group has teamed up with Brian Taitz to launch a hedge fund administration firm, Charter Group Fund Administration. The firm is based in the City of London and focuses primarily on offshore funds managed by boutique fund managers. Taitz
Quant Insight, a London-based firm specialising in machine learning-driven macro analytics, in partnership with Euronext, has developed a new alternative data service, Macro Risk Insight, to provide asset managers with insight into the risk exposure of their investments to global macro factors. Macro
Infiniti Capital has announced the appointment of Ian Shearer, previously the firm’s head of business development and a member of its executive committee, as chief executive.
Recent years have seen an increasing number of specialist funds launched in Jersey, including property, private equity and hedge funds as well as so-called ‘alternative alternatives’.
Markit, a provider of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, has opened an office in Sydney, its first in Australia and its third in the Asia-Pacific
In a dynamic environment stemming from changes in international accounting standards, hedge fund administrators, investors and managers all need to
Mitsubishi Corporation has announced that it will acquire a 5 per cent stake in London-based hedge fund manager Capula Investment Management and its group companies through a purchase of s
Swift, the provider of financial messaging services, is reducing the price of messages on its core FIN service by an average of 20 per cent. This will represent an estimated saving of EUR70m for Swift customers in 2011. The new
