The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a report detailing the results of a supervisory stress test of five major clearinghouses based in the US and the UK, and the results for all five proved positive. The purpose
The Lyxor Hedge Fund index was up 1.0 per cent last week, fuelled by the recovery of Global Macro managers, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Lyxor writes that: “Global Macro funds continued to
Glue42 and Leading Point Financial Markets are partnering to provide a ‘next-generation’ trading desktop experience.
Protos Cryptocurrency Asset Management is to hold an Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”) to raise capital for a data-driven crypto hedge fund that will invest solely in cryptocurrencies and tokens. Protos tokens will be a security issued under the exemption from
Since 5 January 2010, EEX has auctioned more than 900 million emission allowances on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. Including the most recent 500th auction, revenue of approximately EUR6 billion has been generated in total. These funds
Linear Investments, a FCA-approved boutique prime broker, has appointed TFG Financial Systems for the provision of real-time margin reporting. In addition, TFG will be adding its trademark real-time portfolio analytics to the Linear offering. This will be extended to
Tradition, one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter commodity and financial products, and Starfuels, the international oil, biofuels and grain broker, will be working together to launch a Grain Derivatives Broking service. This collaboration will leverage the global
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has announced the general released of its new Auto-Trade Reconstruction technology, which reduces the time it takes for a firm to reconstruct a trade from days to seconds.
Wedbush Securities was founded in 1955, and is one of the largest providers of small and midcap equity research in the US. The research team sits within Wedbush Capital Markets group and has particular expertise in market sectors that include:
Custom Connect has reduced the latency in its microwave link between LD4 Equinix Slough and FR2 Equinix Frankfurt to as low as 4.572ms for a round trip. Custom Connect co-founder Jan Willem Meijer (pictured), says traders and risk managers will
