Arcesium, a global financial technology and professional services firm, has partnered with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. This partnership will serve as Arcesium’s foundational database designed to extend its data platform capabilities.
Hedge funds are in a buoyant mood heading into the second half of the year, boosted by impressive Q2 performances and increased capital inflows, according to a key industry confidence metric. The latest Hedge Fund Confidence Index – published jointly
IOWArocks, the global marketplace for data, tech, and services, has added First To Invest to its established data marketplace. First To Invest use big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events on public, private companies, and specific
Eurex’s established direct access model for the buy-side, ISA Direct, is being extended to broaden its availability to a greater range of market participants, including hedge funds. These firms, and their counterparty dealer banks, will now be able to benefit
XTX Markets’ Execution Algo is now available on the BidFX Algo Hub, providing an implementation shortfall execution algorithm that BidFX clients can now access as algorithmic trading in FX continues to increase. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
DMA Prime, a provider of execution and prime brokerage services to institutional asset managers in South Africa, has selected TORA’s OEMS and TORA’s outsourced trading service. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Robert Lam, co-head of credit at Man Numeric, the Boston-based investment unit of London-listed hedge fund giant Man Group, said “99 per cent” of high yield assets are managed using traditional discretionary processes. But he suggested such one-side market composition
AI-based asset manager Quantumrock has proven that its flagship strategy, the Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP), can make a positive contribution to earnings even in markets with low volatility. Although the first half of 2021 was characterised by a bull
The hedge fund industry continued its winning ways in June, returning +0.88 per cent on the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. This marks the eighth consecutive month of positive
Quantile Technologies (Quantile), a provider of multilateral optimisation services, has become the first vendor to offer optimisation of cleared USD/CAD, USD/DKK, USD/MXN, USD/NOK, USD/NZD, USD/SEK, USD/SGD and USD/ZAR non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) within their initial margin (IM) optimisation runs for foreign
