Colt PrizmNet financial extranet is enabling connectivity to a cloud-based ecosystem of MiFID II compliant solutions, helping capital markets firms deal with the various aspects of the directive which is due to come into force in January 2018. Current partners
Pavilion Financial has closed its acquisition of Altius Holdings, the parent company of Altius Associates, a private markets advisory and separate account management firm with offices in the UK, US and Singapore. Pavilion has also established Pavilion Alternatives Group, a
Systematic alternative investment manager Devet Capital Investments has received a license from the US National Futures Association enabling it to extend the marketing of the Devet Capital Absolute Return Strategy to American investors. In the UK, Devet is authorised and
Far-reaching rules for financial services businesses to create clear channels for whistle blowers to report concerns and to protect those that “blow the whistle” take effect from 7 September, says law firm Howard Kennedy. The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatory
JonesTrading Institutional Services has appointed Andrew Volz as a managing director, head of prime services based in New York. In this role, Volz will be responsible for leading the expansion of the firm’s prime brokerage business – focusing on alternative
Donald A Steinbrugge, CFA, Founder and CEO of Agecroft Partners has written a new paper asking if the capital markets are headed for a major correction and whether hedge funds will help or hurt? Steinbrugge writes that while major corrections
Fund administration group Centaur is increasing its product offering and expanding its global footprint by opening an office in Bermuda. It follows a recent move for Centaur’s European headquarters to larger offices in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre to accommodate
As gold prices reach fresh highs, more hedge fund investors could pile into the commodity – heralding fresh spikes of volatility in the assets, according to Christopher Cruden, manager of the currency and gold-focused CTA strategy Insch Kintore.
Multifonds, a provider of single-platform, multi-jurisdictional investment fund software, has appointed Keith Hale (pictured) as the firm’s new chief executive. Hale will assume the new role as Multifonds moves to the next stage of expansion into new markets and increasing
FlexTrade Systems, a provider of multi- asset execution management systems, has launched TradeGuide – a way of visualising and presenting trade data in the company’s FlexTrader multi-asset execution management system (EMS). TradeGuide is a series of pre-defined web components sitting
