Vistra, a provider of international incorporations, trust, fiduciary, private office, and fund administration services, has acquired Canyon CTS (Canyon), a boutique capital markets corporate and trust business headquartered in Shannon, Ireland, with offices in Dublin and New York. The deal
Unigestion, an independent specialist global asset manager headquartered in Geneva, has opened an office in Copenhagen to better serve investors across the Nordics. The opening of the Copenhagen office provides Unigestion with a dedicated distribution capability in the Nordics, as
A money market fund managed by asset manager Insight Investment has completed its first repo trade cleared via a central counterparty, providing investors in the fund with access to a fresh pool of liquidity and marking a further milestone in
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued two orders filing and settling charges against Tullett Prebon Americas Inc, an interdealer broker and CFTC-registered introducing broker headquartered in New Jersey, requiring the company to pay a total of USD13 million
Digital Shadows, a specialist in digital risk management and relevant threat intelligence, has expanded into Germany and Singapore with the opening of local offices and the recruitment of country managers in both key markets. Stefan Bange has joined to run
PremiaLab, a Fintech platform for risk premia strategies, has appointed Dr Georgios Sittas as Managing Director, Head of Risk Solutions to lead its key products expansion linked to risk solutions. Sittas as previously served at Lehman Brothers and HSBC as
In consultation with almost 70 local and global fund managers, stock exchange, Chi-X Australia, has launched MatchPoint, a new market-on-close trading solution. MatchPoint allows market participants to place anonymous orders, with minimum execution size protection, between 10:00am and 4:20pm. It
Stonehage Fleming, an independently owned international Family Office, has appointed a new Group Chief Executive Officer. Formerly CEO of Ipes, a European provider of fund administration and outsourcing services, Chris Merry’s appointment is effective from 3 September 2019. He will
Ian Livingston, Chairman of the Man Group, has informed the Board of his intention to step down from the role on 31 December 2019, the end of the Company’s current financial year. John Cryan, an independent non-executive director of the
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for August 2019 measured -0.43 per cent. Hedge fund flows, meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.21 per cent in September. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement
