An overwhelming majority (85 per cent) of financial services professionals predict that demand for RegTech solutions will continue to grow until at least 2020 as the wave of new regulation a decade after the financial crisis shows no sign of
Asia’s biggest hedge fund, Value Partners, has been voted third best overall fund management firm in the Thomson Reuters 2010 Extel Asia Pacific Survey, publ
Charlie McCreevy, the European Commissioner responsible – albeit reluctantly – for the draft EU Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers, has announced plans for tighter regulatio
Opus Fund Services, an independent full-service fund administrator, has expanded its US platform with the opening of a New York office. The Park Avenue location will initially focus on business development and will be headed by the new director of
Traditional European infrastructure is going through a period of transition. Digital communication technology and a push towards sustainable energy production is leading to a move away from a centralised, regulated and vertical model to more of a distributed, connected model
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a civil enforcement action against Dro Kholamian of Barrington, Illinois, and his company, Blue Star Trading, LLC (Blue Star), an Illinois limited liability company with an office in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Singapore Exchange (SGX), which operates Asia’s largest, most diverse and fastest growing FX exchange, is to launch SGX FlexC FX Futures that aim to futurise OTC product offerings. With a planned launch date of 27 August 2018, SGX FlexC FX
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has acquired 100 per cent of the shares in Grexel Systems Oy, a provider of energy certificate registries in Europe. Grexel offers comprehensive services for operators of registries, ie. for guarantees of origin, and holds
ConvergEx Group’s Prime services business NorthPoint Trading Partners has grown at a record since its acquisition by ConvergEx a year ago. During a time when there was a great deal of consolidation in the prime services space, NorthPoint’s revenues
BTIG Australia, which specialises in institutional trading and related brokerage services, is expanding its Sydney office with the appointment of two experienced sales traders – Rob Farrington and Andrew Manchee. “Australia is an important component to our expansion in the
