Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has integrated its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) and 7ticks network and hosting businesses into a combined offering called Connectivity, a financial transaction network and foundation infrastructure for ICE Data Services businesses. A key part of the
INTL FCStone, a financial services organisation delivering execution and advisory services in commodities, currencies and securities, has acquired the London-based EMEA oils business of ICAP. The business includes over 30 front office employees across the fuel, crude, middle distillates, futures
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has proposed changes to the ICE Robusta Coffee futures contract, effective 3 October 2016, for the July 2018 contract month onwards. The proposals are part of an ongoing initiative to improve the transparency of warehousing procedures and
Risk-AI is now the official provider of Hedge fund Research’s (HFR) index factsheet report. HFR produces over 140 indices of hedge fund performance ranging from industry-aggregate levels down to specific, niche areas of sub-strategy and regional investment focus. HFR
Bfinance’s Chris Stevens (pictured) reports on a recent manager search for alternative beta strategies for a large US corporate pension scheme with USD10 billion in assets under management. The client had previously considered and rejected investing into hedge funds for
Linklaters has appointed Brad L Caswell as a partner in the firm’s Investment Funds Group based in New York.Caswell is an experienced funds lawyer who counsels hedge, private equity, credit and real-estate funds on operational, regulatory, compliance and formation matters.
Wall Street Horizons’ Enchilada corporate event data service is now available via the App Studio in Thomson Reuters Eikon. Traders can access Enchilada alongside Thomson Reuters research and analytic tools. Thomson Reuters Eikon provides real-time and historical data, news
Beeks Financial Cloud, a financial cloud infrastructure provider, has launched Beeks Marketplace, a cloud-based portal that enables real-time connectivity to a variety of exchanges, data feeds, trading tools and news services. Institutional traders, proprietary trading firms, brokers, wealth managers and
Fund administration and middle office provider Apex Fund Services’ Luxembourg operation will be the first administration office in the group to use the Riva Transfer Agent (Riva TA) software solution. The deployment of the Riva TA application at Apex Luxembourg
Essentia Analytics has launched a new enterprise version of its Insight behavioural data analytics solution aimed at teams of equity portfolio managers.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
