Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has completed the acquisition of Hedgepoint Solutions, a boutique IT consulting firm based in New York City. “Abacus Group has been doing some amazing things
Eurex will launch single stock futures on leading Canadian companies on 25 November 2010. The new listings reflect customer demand for expanded offerings in the rapidly growing equity derivatives segment. The futures contracts will be based on shares of Bank
Deutsche Bank has appointed Jay Fraser as a managing director and head of Autobahn equity execution and head of Autobahn equity sales in the Americas. He is based in New York, reporting to Jose Marques, managing director and global head
Arquitos Capital (Arquitos) has become the first independently-run client of Willow Oak Asset Management’s (Willow Oak) fund management services (FMS) offering. Previously, Willow Oak has started or seeded other funds on its platform. Michael Bridge, chief executive officer for
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.7 million contracts in February (Feb 2011: 10.3 million). Of those, 6.0 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (Feb 2011: 7.1 million), and 2.7 million contracts were at
Linear Investments, a Prime Broker based in London’s West End, has partnered with Integral to provide its client base with the same level of service and functionality for FX that it already offers for equities, derivatives, and fixed income services.
Derivatives exchange Eurex says November has become the most successful month for the Eurex Kospi Product based on the Kospi 200 options available on the Korea Exchange with a record daily volume of 14,636 on 4 November. The total number
NYSE Euronext’s wholly owned subsidiary NYSE Technologies plans to launch a consolidated tape for European equity markets beginning in quarter three 2011. The tape will be available both as a real-time consolidated data feed and as a 15-minute delayed “Tape
C.P. Eaton Partners, an independent placement agent, has appointed Dawn Rinaldi as chief operating and chief financial officer.
Aladdin Capital Management has expanded its sales and trading division with the appointment of Mark Atmore, who brings more than 19 years experience from Bear Stearns and Nomura.
