Ipreo, a provider of market intelligence and productivity solutions to financial services and corporate professionals, has implemented Investor Access, which allows investors to electronically submit orders directly to the sell-side syndicate banks on fixed-income new issues. A five-year GBP-denominated covered
Metamako, a leader in specialist FPGA-enabled high-performance networking platforms, has teamed with Velocimetrics, a provider of intelligent, business flow tracking and performance analytics, to provide MiFID-compliant timestamping. Metamako’s low-latency, FPGA-enabled network devices will deliver lossless data capture and nanosecond-precision timestamping; Velocimetrics’
CME Group is planning to launch bitcoin futures in Q4 2017, pending regulatory approval. The new contract will be cash-settled, based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) which serves as a once-a-day reference rate of the U.S. dollar
Global alternative asset management firm GCM Grosvenor has appointed Pamela Bentley as Managing Director of Finance effective October and Chief Financial Officer effective 1 January, 2021. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has opened the fee model consultation for the ANNA Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB). It is seeking industry comments on the proposed fee model that will be applied to the numbering agency functions of
Forefront Communications Group, a boutique marketing and PR firm focused on the capital markets and fintech, has appointed Eric Soderberg as a managing partner of the firm. Soderberg (pictured) brings over 20 years of capital markets and fintech marketing and communications experience
By Jay Peller (pictured), Citco Fund Services – In recent years, established alternative fund managers have increasingly migrated business to fund administrators with a broad geographic footprint and extensive product expertise. The cost pressures faced by most managers in a
With offices in 35 locations worldwide, Apex Fund Services has grown into one of the financial industry’s largest independent fund administrators since it first opened its doors in Bermuda back in 2003. And with plans to make upwards of 10
Evli has appointed Ville Toivakainen as a portfolio manager in its alternative investments team. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Societe Generale Prime Services reports that all SG CTA indices posted positive returns in December 2016 at the end of what it describes as a difficult quarter. However, the SG CTA Index closed the year slightly negative at -2.86 per
