Recognition of Guernsey’s expertise as a finance centre continues to build in the Far East, according to Fiona Le Poidevin, chief executive of Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry. Le Poidevin (pictured) was speaking at the
BlackRock has appointed James Wilkinson as European chief investment officer for the firm’s recently launched global real estate securities platform. With over 15 years of experience in investing in real estate, Wilkinson (pictured) will be responsible for building and leading
Willis Towers Watson has appointed a number of asset management experts in its FINEX Financial Institutions practice enhancing its offering to a core part of its client portfolio. The appointments are part of the company’s continued strategy to build the
Investment boutique Newscape Capital Group has continued its expansion with the appointment of another ex-Aberdeen Asset Management fixed income investment specialist. Leonardo Da Costa joins Newscape’s core investment team in London as a portfolio manager where he will work alongside
The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) says September 2012 was the most active trading month ever for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). The record trading activity in VIX futures drove total volume at CFE to a new all-time high.
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.2 million contracts in September 2012, down from 12.4 million contracts in September 2011. Of those, 7.5 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (September 2011: 9.1 million), and
Knight Libertas has established a global emerging markets sales team based in Connecticut, Hong Kong and London. Effective immediately, the following have joined the institutional fixed income broker-dealer: Augusto Castilho, Eamon Tubridy, Alfredo Viegas and Elena Antonova in the US;
Franklin Square Capital Partners, a sponsor of alternative investment products, has hired John Towle as chief marketing officer. Towle will assume his role effective immediately. Towle comes to Franklin Square with 25 years of financial services industry experience. Most recently,
Fidessa, a provider of multi-asset class trading, portfolio analysis, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions, has launched LatentZero as a Service, its fully managed service for the buy-side front office. LatentZero as a Service goes beyond standard hosted or ASP
As the Securities Exchange Commission in the US puts pressure on measuring and defining dark pool activity, the same debate is occurring in Europe where buy-side equity traders are having a love-hate relationship with the dark. Trading in dark environments
