European traders are backing a 90-minute reduction in trading hours in a bid to concentrate liquidity creating more efficient markets. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Managed futures funds turned in a second consecutive monthly gain in March returning 0.32 per cent, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. For the year to date, CTAs returned 2.29 per cent
There is precious little to celebrate in the precipitous collapse of Wirecard, the German payments group whose shares have lost 90 per cent in a matter of days amid what now appears to be incontrovertible evidence of a massive and
The Fixed Income Division of INTL FCStone’s wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial has appointed Grant Garcia as Director, Structured Product Sales, effective immediately. In this role, Garcia will focus on covering asset manager, hedge fund and bank portfolio clients trading
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has announced the second year of its advance proxy voting disclosure initiative, whereby the firm will disclose and publicly explain its voting rationale on select issues. Read the full story at Institutional
Exberry has launched its multi-asset class exchange infrastructure designed to enable traditional, alternative and digital asset exchanges to launch, pivot and scale.Exberry’s infrastructure has been specifically developed to help boost exchanges by delivering a blend of exchange and secondary market
The latest data from FXLIQUIDITY, provided by Mosaic Smart Data, CLS and MUFG, reveals that FX volumes dropped by between 10 and 25 per cent across all currency groups between 22 and 26 June. Read the full story Institutional Asset
Laurium Capital (Pty) Ltd (Laurium), one of South Africa’s leading hedge fund and long only fund managers has launched its first Irish-domiciled UCITS fund, the Laurium Africa USD Bond Fund, on the Prescient Global Funds ICAV platform. Read the full
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions provider, today extended its Reference Data Utility (RDU) Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) service to include an API for firms requiring fast access to the technology and data needed to manage
Tether tokens (USDt) are now live on Hermez Network, a decentralised zero-knowledge rollup (zk-rollup).
