Dillon Eustace has appointed Derbhil O’Riordan as a partner for its recently established Cayman Islands office. O’Riordan (pictured) previously worked at the firm’s Dublin headquarters and will continue to work for its hedge funds practice, servicing both Irish and Cayman
Bitwise Index Services, a subsidiary of Bitwise Asset Management, creator of a cryptocurrency index fund, has launched three additional indexes covering the mid-cap, small-cap, and total-market segments of the cryptoasset market. In addition, the company has renamed the HOLD 10 Index
Woori Absolute Partners, an alternative investment firm based in Singapore, has appointed Edward Sungshik Moon as its chief investment officer. Moon will continue in his current role as the firm’s head of fund of funds and lead portfolio manager. Prior
By James Williams – Last year witnessed an anticipated record high in quantitative (algorithmic) fund launches. As reported by the Financial Times recently, citing data provider Preqin, some 187 “quant” funds launched in 2011. Through the first six months of
Cappitech, a provider of regulatory reporting and intelligence technology for the financial services industry, has expanded its integrated reporting solution to CME Group’s Australian Trade Repository (ATR). This integration provides investment firms with automation technology to comply with ASIC Derivative
Algorithmics, a provider of risk solutions, says Basel III is lacking in its conceptual approach to capital and liquidity. The raft of proposals from the Basel Committee includes the tier 1 capital ratio, buffer building, and leverage and liquidity ratios,
By James Williams – Technology vendors are constantly looking for ways to support increased activity in systematic trading. Trading firms, of which high frequency traders (HFTs) are but a sub-sect, are applying high precision engineering to shave millionths of a
JTC, a provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services to institutional and private clients, is to acquire Van Doorn from International Capital Group BV. Van Doorn is a specialist provider of corporate and related fiduciary services based in Amsterdam,
Irish law firm Mason Hayes+Curran has appointed Mark Browne as a partner in its investment funds department. Browne has over ten years’ experience in the funds industry and advises on all aspects of the structuring, establishment and ongoing operation of
Order book turnover on Xetra, the Xetra Frankfurt Specialist trading and Tradegate stood at EUR93bn in February (February 2012: EUR105.8bn). Of the EUR93.0bn, EUR85.2bn were attributable to Xetra (February 2012: EUR96.4bn). EUR4.5bn were attributable to the Xetra Frankfurt Specialist trading
