Crescent Capital Group has held the final close of the Crescent European Specialty Lending Fund with more than EUR500 million of investor commitments, bringing the total deployable capital available to the strategy to approximately EUR650 million. Since October 2014, the
MarketAxess has reported total monthly trading volume for November 2015 of USD81.7 billion, consisting of USD47.2 billion in US high-grade volume, USD28.9 billion in other credit volume, and USD5.6 billion in liquid products volume. MarketAxess is providing both the reported
RIMES, a provider of managed data services for the buy-side, has appointed David Brierwood as its newest board member. Brierwood brings extensive knowledge of risk management and business operations to RIMES, drawing on his experience in several senior leadership positions
Gravitas Technology Services, a provider of front and middle office outsourcing solutions to the hedge fund industry, has added several new key hires to the firm’s team. With over ten years of industry experience, Jonathan Shapiro joins Gravitas as Senior
The FIX Protocol will now support higher time stamp resolution to enable market participants to be MiFID II compliant. FIX formed the Clock Synchronisation Working Group in June 2015 to look at regulatory technical standard (RTS) on Clock Synchronisation as
All six of Market Vectors Index Solutions (MVIS) six investable Long/Short Equity Indices reocrded positive performance in November. Each index is constructed using transparent, liquid ETFs and US Treasury securities to produce hedge fund-style returns without hedge fund pricing, opaqueness
2015 has been a challenging year for CTAs, as commodity market volatility has proved difficult to navigate; especially for systematic CTAs, which are down -1.48 per cent through the calendar year (up to end of October). According to alternative funds
Following a very successful six year tenure as global head of Maples and Calder, Henry Smith stepped down from the role on 30 November 2015 with Alasdair Robertson succeeding him as Global Managing Partner, with immediate effect. In addition to
Euronext has appointed leading industry practitioner Paul Humphrey as Head of Fixed Income, Rates and FX (FICC) Strategy. Humphrey will join Euronext on 4 January 2016 to oversee the development and execution of strategy in the Fixed Income, Interest Rate
STOXX Ltd is a global index provider, currently calculating a global index family of over 7,000 rules-based and transparent indices. STOXX indices are licensed to more than 500 companies globally. Three of Europe's top ETFs and approximately 25 per cent
