SimCorp, a provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, has gone live with its SFTR cloud solution, available to clients as part of the company’s latest software release. The solution offers clients an integrated
Charles Gave sits in the hot chair this week and discusses a range of current topics in the twilight zone between politics, economics and markets.<
The Maples Group, a provider of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance and entity formation and management services, has appointed Kim Bishop as a vice president and independent director within the fiduciary services team in the Cayman Islands. Bishop has
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and Reuters have signed a landmark agreement that allows CME to offer its electronic foreign exchange (eFX) markets to Reuters’ global customer base in a spot equivalent format. The agreement, signed in May, marks the
Callan, an institutional investment consulting firm, has hired Catherin Beard, CFA, as senior vice president in the expanding Alternatives Consulting group. Beard is to join the Chicago office and will provide consulting and research across alternatives, with a particular focus
Martin Currie, the Edinburgh-based specialist investment manager with USD 1 billion in hedge fund assets, is to launch its seventh hedge fund on 2 September. <
Alan Whiting is to succeed Hugh Freedberg as the new non-executive Chairman of the NYSE Liffe’s global derivatives business. Whiting’s appointment will take effect from 1 May, 2012. Freedberg who previously served as CEO of NYSE Liffe from 1998 to
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx is to launch USDT Futures Trading, a linear futures contract. OKEx’s USDT futures contract is a virtual derivative product that is quoted and settled in USDT digital tokens, and each contract has a face value of a fixed
Global Advisors, the specialist commodities alternative asset manager, revealed that its Global Advisors Discretionary Program returned +4.33% net of fees for investors in Q
In March 2012, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.1 million contracts (March 2011: 11.8 million). Of those, 7.4 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (March 2011: 8.7 million), and 2.7 million contracts (March
