Apex Group Ltd has appointed John Davis as Managing Director, Singapore. Reporting to Valerie Mantot-Groene, Regional Managing Director, APAC, Davis will be responsible for leading a team of over 100 locally-based experts, and driving the firm’s continued growth and performance
The Archegos meltdown, the “meme stock” short-selling squeeze, and new curbs on Chinese education stocks contributed to a “significant stress test” for the prime brokerage sector in 2021, one which potentially heralds far-reaching consequences for the ways prime brokers and
Franklin Resources, a global investment management organization operating as Franklin Templeton, has completed its acquisition of quantitative asset management firm O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM).
SW Capital, a USD50 million AUM Germany-based hedge fund, has seeded its decentralised spin-off SW DAO with USD750,000 in capital for its tokenised investment portfolios. Some USD500,000 of capital has been deployed into SW DAO’s tokenised Yield Farming fund, SW
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD9.3 billion in 2021, a 36 per cent increase from the USD6.8 billion seen in 2020, according to the data release bu CoinShares. While the increase from 2019 to 2020 was significantly higher
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has added David S Hong as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Department based in the Los Angeles office. Hong was previously a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Hong focuses his practice on the
Pico, a provider of technology, data and analytic services for the financial markets community, has acquired Redline Trading Solutions (Redline), a provider of high performance trading and market data software solutions. The addition of Redline’s multi-asset software solutions will provide
Facteus, a provider of actionable insights from financial transaction data, and 1010data, a provider of analytical intelligence, enterprise analytics and collaboration capabilities to the retail, consumer brands, and capital markets sectors, have formed a strategic partnership, enabling the companies to
S&P Global has acquired The Climate Service, a specialist in analysing climate risks. The acquisition will add capabilities to S&P Global’s portfolio of essential environmental, social, and governance (ESG) insights and solutions for its customers. Through this acquisition, S&P Global
90 West, a provider of a unique consumer transactions dataset covering the entire United States market, with a particular concentration on the midwest region, has formed a partnership with Exabel which will result in the creation of a new insights
