CBOE Holdings plans to list options on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) and the MSCI EAFE Index (EAFE) beginning Tuesday, 21 April. The announcement was made during a CBOE press briefing at the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca
SEI is collaborating with long-standing partner RiskMetrics Group to provide its clients with independent risk management and reporting services that will integrate directly into the company’s flexible Manager Dashboard tool. The new offering enhances SEI’s risk management solution and further
iMatchative’s new online data analytics, monitoring and matching service for institutional investors and hedge funds, AltX, will now use a data feed from HedgeFund Intelligence’s. HedgeFund Intelligence’s global database of hedge fund performance tracks over USD2 trillion in assets under
ASPN Solutions has been named Best Aggregation and Reporting System for its front, middle, and back office technology platform, ASPN in the 2015 Hedgeweek Awards The winners are determined on a peer review basis whereby institutional and high net worth
The former Attorney General for the Cayman Islands, Richard Coles (pictured), is the new Chairman of Cayman Finance, the voice of Cayman’s financial services industry. Coles was appointed last week at the organisation’s AGM in Cayman and immediately declared his
BATS Global Markets (BATS) has hired Kapil Rathi as Vice President, Options Business Strategy. Rathi joined BATS on 23 February after 10 years in key roles at the International Securities Exchange (ISE) and is working closely with Jeromee Johnson, Vice
Osney Buy-Side has identified the top three challenges currently facing European asset managers: the role of technology in driving growth; the continuing wave of regulation; and lack of standardisation in cash flow management. These three issues will be addressed at
Financial Market Engineering (FME) has begun live trading on Object Trading’s Direct Market Access (DMA) Service Platform. FME can now offload the burden of designing, managing and maintaining a specialised connectivity solution as they scale across markets globally.
Common Sense Investment Management (CSIM) has launched Common Sense Solutions, a bespoke portfolio construction and fund structuring service for institutional investors. Common Sense Solutions couples 24 years of hedge fund research, investment & operational due diligence with specialised portfolio &
McKay Brothers Microwave has launched a private bandwidth service between Slough and Frankfurt with latency of 4.64 milliseconds (ms) for the round trip, the lowest known. The company is finalising more routes between the UK and Frankfurt as well as
