Harneys is opening an office in Singapore on 7 April. Colin Riegels, head of Harneys’ banking and finance practice group, will relocate from Hong Kong to Singapore as the managing partner of the new office, and he will be joined
The SEC has sanctioned a high frequency trading firm for placing a large number of rapid-fire trades in the final two seconds of trading each day to manipulate the closing prices of NASDAQ-listed stocks. This marks the first high frequency
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has relocated partner Robert M. Griffin to Abu Dhabi to head the firm’s Middle East investment funds practice.
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, has further strengthened its fixed income team in Europe with the appointment of Jonathan Gray as Head of Fixed Income Sales. Reporting directly to Mark Pumfrey (pictured), CEO Liquidnet Europe and Constantinos Antoniades, Global
Prisma Capital Partners has appointed John Stimpson as one of the managing directors in its marketing group, bringing the senior members of that team to four people.
Despite infrastructure fundraising showing signs of growth, achieving a successful fundraise is more difficult than ever in such a competitive market. Preqin examines which funds are more likely to achieve their target size and the key factors for fundraising success.
After launching its new brand and announcing a fresh start with the shareholder New York Life Investment Management last month, Candriam is in the process of renaming all of its funds. This process, which should be completed by the summer
Trading volume in S&P 500 Index (SPX) options and CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) futures set new single-day records, while C2 Options Exchange (C2) experienced the busiest trading day in its history on 15 October. Total exchange-wide options volume at Chicago
Man Group as reported a 25 per cent increase in funds under management (FUM) to USD72.3 billion at 30 September 2014 (30 June 2014: USD57.7 billion). The acquisition of Numeric and Pine Grove added USD16.2 billion of assets, net inflows
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) subsidiary Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) intends to submit a rule filing with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and an Advance Notice filing to both the SEC and the Federal Reserve to provide
