Learnlight, a global language, intercultural skills and soft skills training provider, has acquired Arenalingua, a leading German language training company, as part of its European expansion strategy. The acquisition, backed by Beech Tree Private Equity and Learnlight’s management team, follows
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has obtained more than USD3.9m in restitution and civil monetary penalties in a federal judgment order against CSA Trading Group and Michael Derrick Peninger, both of Charleston, South Carolina, in a CFTC anti-fraud action.
Topix Futures will be available for trading on NYSE Liffe from 18 October, making the benchmark index available in both Tokyo and London. The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Topix (Tokyo Stock Price Index) is the most popular index for benchmarking Japanese
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released details on how its depository subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), will introduce Settlement Matching, bringing enhancements to the settlement process and further reducing settlement risk. In a paper titled “Increasing
London-based Aspect Capital has signed a joint venture partnership agreement with Australia-based Select Asset Management Limited.
Jesus Mardomingo and Jorge Canta of Madrid-based law firm Cuatrecasas outline Spain’s new legal framework for collective investments. Following a process taking mor
LCH.Clearnet has received approval from the UK Financial Services Authority to extend its interest rate swap clearing service, SwapClear. Buy-side firms can now access the service through clearing members based in Ireland and Switzerland. The extension means that institutional investors
Threadneedle, has this week announced the appointment of Vanessa Donegan as the firm’s newly created Head of Asia and Global Emerging Markets<
Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, Inc. has launched HFRX, a family of investable hedge fund indices.
GAM Investments has announced that all subscriptions and redemptions in its CHF7.3 billion unconstrained/absolute return bond funds (ARBF) have been suspended as of 31 July 2018, following redemption requests of over 10 per cent since the suspension of investment director
