By George Ralph, RFA – As a technologist, it’s apparent to me that the road to success lies with digitisation, but it can be hard to bring a traditional industry into the digital age. The alternative investment industry is one
Algorithmic trading company, Vanguard Capital AG, has appointed Imran Lakha to its Senior Management team. With his past experience working with some of the largest tier 1 investment banks, including his last role as portfolio manager working with global alternative
Cheyne Capital, the London-based alternative asset manager, has launched a new sub-investment grade credit business, SVC. The team will be run by Anthony Robertson, formerly Head of Leveraged Finance at BlueBay Asset Management, who joins as CIO of the strategy.
Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) and Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) are joining forces to extend the range of investment expertise available to AllianzGI’s broad global client base. From 1 January 2018, ACP will become a discrete entity under the umbrella of
Commcise, a buy-side focused commission management, research valuation and research accounting platform, and RSRCHXchange, an aggregator and marketplace for institutional research, have teamed up to deliver an integrated research solution to support the research consumption, valuation and accounting data requirements
Quant Insight, a macro research firm providing discretionary managers with actionable investment ideas, has launched an Analytics Dashboard, which brings together the ability to analyse and visualise patterns between asset prices and the macro forces driving them, and tools to
Market participants using MarketFacory’s ultra-low latency API for foreign exchange trading, Whisperer, will be able to trade Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) when they launch on 18 December. Additionally, Whisperer provides access to Bitcoin market data.
Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has expanded its direct streams capabilities in on-the-run (OTR) US Treasuries. During the second quarter of 2019, Tradeweb reached a new high for average daily
Ultimus Fund Solutions, one of the largest independent providers of mutual fund, pooled investment and middle office services, has launched uComply, a portfolio compliance application . An internally developed app, uComply helps fund managers monitor investment portfolios against federal regulations and
Eze Software has partnered with Wise Trading Technologies to enhance its currency offering. With WiseRisk, Eze OMS users will get more automation, visibility and precision in managing currency risk in real-time. WiseRisk enables users to eliminate fragmented spreadsheets and mitigate
