Jeremey Gzaiel has joined United Fintech’s London-based team as Senior Sales Executive, with a remit to grow the firm’s client base in French speaking territories. Gzaiel brings a wealth of institutional sales experience to United Fintech, which helps banks, hedge
LibreMax Capital (LibreMax), an asset management firm specialising in structured products and corporate credit, has successfully closed its fifth drawdown vehicle, LibreMax Structured Opportunities Partners I, with total capital commitments of approximately USD225 million. The Structured Opportunities Fund will target
The European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) has successfully launched the sell-off of national emission certificates (nEHS certificates, identified on EEX by the abbreviation nEZ) in the German national emissions trading scheme (nEHS). At the start of the sell-off, 500,012 nEHS
Brevan Howard, the high-profile global macro hedge fund firm co-founded by Alan Howard, has taken a minority stake in 1543 Capital, an alternative credit and structured finance-focused investment manager, as part of a new strategic partnership.
Pico, a provider of mission critical technology, data and analytic services for the financial markets community, has introduced ultra-low latency venue connectivity. Pico’s ultra-low latency solution supports clients with latency-sensitive trading strategies requiring highly accurate views of the market and
The “explosive” upward price movements in energy markets are helping power performance among machine-based hedge funds this year, as CTAs and trend-following strategies successfully lock onto strong price signals.
AxeTrading, a fixed income trading software company, has demonstrated the integration of ICE’s pricing, analytics and market data into the AxeTrader Quoting and Execution Management System (QEMS). Users of the AxeTrader QEMS will be able to access ICE’s pricing and
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is expanding its Managed Hosting solution to enable firms wanting to co-locate and directly access the Euronext exchange matching engine to seamlessly move trading operations from Basildon to Bergamo. Euronext is planning to migrate its primary
BTIG has expanded its Fixed Income Credit division with several senior hires who specialise in emerging market debt sales and trading. Blake Considine and Josh Markfield have joined BTIG as Managing Directors, while Tyler Danielsen joins the firm as a
BlockFills, a global cryptocurrency and digital asset technology company, has launched Phoenix, a SaaS crypto interface designed for institutional clients to access the company’s proprietary cryptocurrency trading technology and liquidity.
