Barring an unexpected global or financial event, hedge funds are positioned for another year of solid growth as institutional investors seek to gain alternative exposures to traditional equity and fixed income markets. That’s according to eVestment which expects asset flows into
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a notice of intent to undertake a determination whether 17 contracts offered for trading on the IntercontinentalExchange perform significant price discovery functions. The contracts are: PB&E Citygate Financial Basis; Waha Financial Basis;
Tim Thornton, Chief Data Officer at Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services, comments on the December 31 FATCA deadline… 31 December sees the deadline for completing due diligence on pre-existing accounts which are prima facie foreign financial institutions (FFIs), depending on the effective
HedgeOp Compliance, a provider of compliance software and consulting services for alternative asset managers, has entered into an alliance with Strata Fund Services, a full-service administrator to the alternative investment industry, to provide Strata with its ComplianceTrak software platform. Strata
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has extended the no-action relief granted in CFTC Letter 14-27 to Eurex Clearing AG (Eurex Clearing) and its US clearing members. In the time-limited no-action letter, the CFTC states that it will not recommend
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved new exchange rules for breaking stock trades that deviate so substantially from current market prices that they are considered “clearly erroneous”. The rules would for the first time provide a consistent standard across
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against FCM Deutsche Bank Securities Inc) (DBSI) is to pay a USD 3 million civil penalty to settle CFTC charges relating to failures to properly
Friday, 19 December 2014 was Euronext’s most active day in terms of trading in 2014 and the most active day on its market since March 2011. Some EUR15.986 billion was traded across all its cash products: equities; ETFs; warrants
Michael Zimmerman's hedge fund Prentice Capital believes up to 80 per cent of consumers will embrace mCommerce in 2014, and it anticipates significant increases in the amount of money shoppers spend online via mobile. This view is supported by research
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA is to perform the majority of the The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchanges’ (C2) regulatory services. Additionally, CBOE entered into a separate agreement with FINRA, under which CBOE will assign
