Alaris Trading Partners has hired Adam Capon, formerly of Goldman Sachs, as vice president of sales and trading. Capon will concentrate on prime brokerage sales and further development of the institutional agency execution services of Alaris. Most recently he was
Barclays Bank has become the latest bank to support the joint venture between CLS Group and Traiana, which provides trade aggregation services to participants active in the over-the-counter FX market. Barclays Capital joins an initial group of eight banks
Robert Stinson, Jr, of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 33 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay more than USD14 million in restitution for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded at
EDHEC-Risk Institute has launched its smart beta index design and production activity, ERI Scientific Beta. The aim is to revolutionise the index world through, firstly, a new approach to smart beta investing called Smart Beta 2.0, which enables investors to choose
NYSE Liffe, the global derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, has gained the first broker headquartered in the People’s Republic of China through its Hong Kong subsidiary. GF Futures (Hong Kong) Co Ltd became a trading member of NYSE Liffe on
Lyxor Asset Management is reinforcing its cross asset research team with the appointment of Rob Koyfman as senior strategist. Based in New York, Koyfman reports to Jeanne Asseraf-Bitton, global head of cross asset research. Koyfman’s main responsibility will
List Group, an electronic trading software provider, has launched Brain3, a complex event processing and algorithmic trading engine, which provides buy and sell-side firms with a solution for the development of low latency, automated algorithms. B3’s CEP engine enables real-time
Singapore-based Armstrong Asset Management has appointed Yasushi Ujioka as investment director. Uijoka has 17 years’ experience as an engineer and investment professional in the water, power generation and energy efficiency sectors across Europe and Asia. Ujioka will be
Liquidnet, the institutional trading network, is continuing its expansion in high-growth markets by enabling institutional investors to trade securities listed in Thailand. The Thailand launch is the 42nd market globally for Liquidnet and the 10th market in Asia Pacific, further
Frédéric Bilas has joined European Fund Administration as the forthcoming NAV operations director. After a transition period of six months, he will replace Jean Paul Thomas on 1 July 2010, when the latter retires. Bilas will then also become a
