NPL, the UK’s National Measurement Institute, is expanding its precise timing service, NPLTime, through a distribution agreement with QuantHouse, an independent provider of trading and infrastructure solutions and market data services to the quant trading community. NPLTime® provides a precise
Hedge funds have collected almost EUR200 million from successful bets against the embattled travel and leisure sector, with short positions in Lufthansa, TUI and IAG driving the bulk of the gains recently. New analysis by Ortex, the London-based equity analytics
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its integrated buy-side trading workflow solution by delivering interoperability between its financial markets desktop Eikon and REDI execution management system. The milestone follows Thomson Reuters acquisition of REDI in January this year and the recent expansion
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has partnered with six leading securities finance market participants as part of its ongoing effort with Pirum Systems to build a solution to address Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) reporting
FTI Consulting has launched its Specialist Director Support Services offering in the Cayman Islands, following approval of a Companies Management Licence by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the registration of individual directors under the local Directors Registration and
Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has appointed Henning Swabey as Managing Director and Head of Continental Europe. Swabey joins from RBC and will be responsible for defining and implementing the European Business Development Strategy, and will build and manage
JP Morgan has launched a new agency pass-through securities index, the JP Morgan MBS Agency Index (MAX) which is designed to act as an efficient and in-depth measure of the US MBS market’s largest and most traded fixed-rate agency programs.
Bloomberg Data Reporting Services Limited (BDRSL) has received authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) – effective 3 January 2018. Under MiFID II, investment firms will be required to submit transaction reports containing
Against the backdrop of the current macroeconomic environment, Howie Li (pictured), CEO, Canvas, ETF Securities, is encouraging investors to think deeply about future proofing their portfolios. “The unconventional policy steps which central banks took from 2008 onwards has had knock-on
Fluxys Belgium is to simplify its services for ZTP physical trading (formerly Zeebrugge Beach services) as from 1 October 2017. The PEGAS trading platform will enhance its services accordingly. Fluxys Belgium will simplify its services for ZTP physical trading by
