Channel Islands independent director services business Altair has appointed Matt Wood as a director in Guernsey. Wood will take on a pivotal role in driving forward Altair’s growth strategy in the Channel Islands as it looks to support the governance
Four Singapore Exchange member banks successfully eliminated more than 82 per cent of the SGD interest rate swaps they wanted to terminate in the first SGX triReduce portfolio compression cycle. The four participants, including two local institutions, reduced notional principal
PEAK6 Advisors, an investment advisory firm launching a multi-asset class hedge fund, has selected Paladyne FastStart as part of its institutional-grade investment management platform. PEAK6 Advisors is a unit of PEAK6 Investments, a financial institution based in Chicago with businesses
Advent Software has launched a new interface between Tamale RMS and IntraLinks offering multi-manager organisations enhanced information automation and significant time savings with their research and due diligence processes. Advent’s Tamale RMS is the only RMS to offer the IntraLinks
By Beatrice Bedeschi – Thanks to the shale oil revolution, the US is set to become one of the leading oil producing countries in the coming years. But with a global 0.5 per cent sulphur cap for marine fuels imposed by
Object Trading, an independent provider of global direct market access (DMA), has named Dan Hubscher director of marketing. In this newly created position, Hubscher will promote the Object Trading brand and provide market feedback to ensure the FrontRunner suite of
Institutional investors feel that regulators are not in tune with investor requirements, according to a survey commissioned by structuring specialist Alceda. The survey of 49 UK institutional investors was conducted by Kepler Partners at the Global Macro Ucits Conference in
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has completed a contract agreement with the Hungarian Ministry of National Development for the auctioning of EU Allowances (EUA) for the second trading period of the EU ETS. The auction volume amounts to 2.5 million
The Conifer Group, a provider of fund administration, middle office, trading and prime brokerage services to the hedge fund industry, has promoted Howard Eisen to head of business development. Eisen (pictured) joined Conifer as a managing director in January 2012 to
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s division of clearing and risk (DCR) has issued a time-limited, no-action letter granting relief from required clearing for certain swaps entered into by qualifying cooperatives. The no-action letter provides that DCR will not recommend an
