Cantor Fitzgerald has announced the launch in early July of GoldRock Asset Management, a new alternative investment management company formed out of Cantor’s integration of Zenith Asset Ma
The London-based Hedge Fund Standards Board has appointed Antonio Borges, a former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and dean of French business school Insead, as its first permanent chairman
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an interpretation of Commission Regulation 30.7(c) under the Commodity Exchange Act. The interpretation permits futures commission merchants (FCMs) to deposit customer funds margining foreign futures positions with UK-licensed investment firms that
Lane Clark & Peacock, a UK firm of consulting actuaries, has promoted Clay Lambiotte, who leads the firm’s hedge fund research team, to the rank of partner within its investment consul
Aladdin Capital Holdings has appointed Carlyle Peake as chief operating officer of Aladdin Capital and global head of syndicate for the firm. Peake joins Aladdin from Merrill Lynch where he was managing director and head of emerging markets syndicate.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) CICI Utility, the interim global legal entity identifier (LEI) solution developed in collaboration with SWIFT, has been endorsed by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) as a pre-Local Operating Unit (LOU). This action
Tora Trading Services, an electronic trading platform and liquidity provider for Asia, has opened a sales and support office in Singapore headed by vice-president Laura Hanson, formerly wi
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 7.9 million contracts in February 2014, down from 8.7 million contracts in February 2013. Of those, 5.4 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (Feb 2013: 6.3 million), and
A Jersey lawyer specialising in the field of money laundering and financial services regulation has questioned the validity of the European Union’s
EDHEC-Risk Institute disagrees with The European Fund and Asset Management Association's (EFAMA) assertion that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) exceeded its powers and mandate by issuing quasi-regulation on topics not previously regulated at EU level. The representative body for
