FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications has launched the Open:FactSet Marketplace, a new online platform that offers both financial and alternative data. This launch marks a significant milestone for FactSet’s fast-growing Content and Technology Solutions business,
JP Morgan Asset Management has appointed Alistair Lowe as managing director and senior portfolio manager, Quantitative Beta Strategies (QBS). In this new role, Lowe (pictured), will oversee QBS’s team of alternative beta and quantitative equity portfolio managers in New York. He
Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent provider of algorithms and data-driven analytics to clients in the Futures and US Cash Treasury markets, has appointed Deepak Begari as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. With more
Baringa Partners is working in partnership with London-based compliance and data analytics firm SteelEye, to provide solutions for the Reg tech market. Baringa says it has identified compliance as a huge opportunity in terms of technology investment, as financial services
QuantHouse, an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, has launched a trade and book updates synchronisation feature in response to client requirements. The new trade and book updates
Cryptocurrency broker BCB Group has launched an institutional prime brokerage solution, specifically designed to cater for the needs of institutional clients who need OTC best execution for their own accounts and who wish to offer cryptocurrency products and services to
Aksia, a specialist research and portfolio advisory firm for hedge fund, private credit, and institutional investors, has appointed Ilya Riskin as a Senior Analyst in the firm’s Investment Research Team in New York. Riskin (pictured), had been at Barclays for
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is to expand trading in dairy products with a Liquid Milk Future, on 15 August 2018, becoming the first exchange in Europe to offer such a product in the process. So far, EEX offers trading
Following a bright start to the year in January and challenging February, all CTA indices finished slightly in negative territory for March, according to the latest performance data for Societe Generale Prime Services’s SG CTA indices. Overall, performance was mixed,
Eurekahedge reports that hedge funds registered their second consecutive month of losses since the start of 2018, with the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index declining 0.51 per cent in March, while still outperforming the MSCI World Index which ended the month
