Quaero Capital has moved to new offices in London’s West End following its recent merger with Asian fund management specialist Tiburon Partners. The firm’s decision is based on the expansion of Quaero following the deal with Tiburon whose staff have
London Block Exchange (LBX) – a UK-based, dedicated cryptocurrency exchange – is to add a new coin a day to its offering this week – Basic Attention Token (BAT), STATUS (SNT), Golem (GNT), OmiseGo (OMG) and 0x (ZRX). OMG
First Eagle Investment Management (First Eagle) has completed its previously announced acquisition of THL Credit Advisors (THL Credit).First Eagle Alternative Credit, as the combination of First Eagle’s existing private credit platform and THL Credit is now known, focuses on both
Sound Point Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm with approximately USD21 billion of assets under management, has appointed Francis McCullough as Global Head of CLO Capital Markets and Structuring.McCullough joins Sound Point from Deutsche Bank, where he spent the
OCC, one of the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organisations, has reported January 2020 total cleared contract volume of 521,727,816 contracts, the industry’s highest January ever – up 23.5 per cent from January 2019, and the third highest month overall. The
Michael Green has joined LA-based boutique quantitative hedge fund Logica Capital as Chief Strategist & Portfolio Manager. Green comes to Logica from Thiel Macro where he managed discretionary macro portfolios for the family office of Peter Thiel with an emphasis on
RWC Partners has completed a shareholder transaction which saw the organisation and its new long-term partner, Lincoln Peak Capital, buy the entire minority equity stake owned by Schroders.The resulting structure significantly increases RWC’s internal ownership, with the organisation and its
GCM Grosvenor has appointed Eric Levin as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), based in the firm’s Chicago headquarters. Levin brings more than twenty years of experience to the role. He joins GCM Grosvenor from PEAK6 Investments, where he has worked for the
A subsidiary of Ares Management Corporation (Ares) is to acquire a managing interest in a restructured Crestline Denali Capital (Crestline Denali) that will result in the addition of seven collateralised loan obligation funds (CLOs) totalling USD2.6 billion of assets under
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has appointed Michael Newell, a fund formation partner, to the firm’s London team.
