Hedge funds have cut their short wagers against US regional banks and a have now adopted a more bullish stance on the US financial sectors on the whole, just as banking stocks have begun to rise, according to a report
Macfarlanes has appointed Peter Chapman as a partner in the firm’s investment management group. Chapman, who joins from Sidley Austin, advises private fund sponsors across a range of asset classes including private credit, private equity, growth capital, venture capital and
Options Technology, a provider of financial technology and global market data solutions, has formed a new strategic partnership with Raptor Trading Systems, a Canada-based provider of multi-asset trading solutions for hedge funds and other financial institutions.
LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has appointed Can Envarli as VP of Engineering, reporting directly to the firm’s Chief Technology Officer Shawn Samuel.
Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has completed its acquisition of Yieldbroker, an Australian trading platform for Australian and New Zealand government bonds and interest rate derivatives covering the institutional and
Brazil’s Legacy Capital, one of the country’s largest independent hedge fund managers, has bolstered its foreign-exchange desk with appointments from local rival asset management firms, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The philanthropic foundation set up by Chris Hohn, founder of hedge fund firm The Children’s Investment Fund Management (TCI), donated almost $500m to charitable activities last year despite recording an investment loss for the first time in ten years, according
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management has made a big bet against América Móvil with the fund building a $320m short position in Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s telecoms empire amid a sharp fall in the value of the as the company’s shares,
IPC has partnered with Celoxia to deliver a hosted, fully managed, colocation solution for enhanced direct market access (DMA) and pre-trade risk management in Taiwan by combining Celoxia’s Market Access Gateway with its Connexus platform.
Societe Generale Security Services (SGSS) has appointed Richard Davis, the former Director of Institutional and Hedge Fund sales for EMEA at SS&C, as sales director, in a move to aimed at strengthening the firm’s UK client coverage.
