Xceptor, a no-code software platform for data automation in the financial sector, has appointed Pete Daffern as Non-Executive Company Chair. Daffern brings over 30 years’ experience within the technology sector, having successfully grown numerous software businesses, including the creation of
London-headquartered information services company, Dialectica, has launched a B2B Surveys service to enhance its comprehensive portfolio of bespoke insights services. The proposition is designed to enable Dialectica’s clients – the world’s leading consulting, hedge fund, and private equity companies –
Spectrum Markets, a pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, has widened its product offering to include cryptocurrencies as an underlying, with turbo warrants on bitcoin and ether now available. The new products expand Spectrum’s existing suite of Turbo24s and allow
BennBridge has appointed Robert McKillop as chief executive officer for UK and Europe, effective 4 May. McKillop has almost 30 years of experience in asset management leadership across investment, distribution and product functions, spanning geographic regions and client channels. He
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has allocated 20 additional positions to the unit responsible for protecting investors in crypto markets and from cyber-related threats. The newly renamed Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (formerly known as the Cyber Unit)
Brooklands a specialist in operational and regulatory compliance, has extended its services to provide a robust AML Infrastructure. The new offering includes an Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer and an Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Manual, Policies and Procedures.
The Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM) has appointed Eventus Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Mike Castiglione as Chair of its new National Security Working Group. ADAM created the working group to
Online Blockchain, the administrator, co-ordinator and adviser to Umbria Network, has reported ‘excellent progress’ with the platform’s cross-chain asset bridge ‘Narni’. Since its beta launch on 16 August, 2021, Narni has quickly expanded its scope from an Ethereum to Polygon
Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor with four decades of experience in ‘encouraging’ board-level change at blue chip companies, has set its sights on Suncor, one of Canada’s largest energy companies, according to a report by The Globe and Mail.
The Future Fund, Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, is tackling what its chairman has described a “challenging and volatile’ period by allocating a further AUD2 billion to hedge fund strategies while shifting AUD4 billion of its portfolio out of cash, according
