Allenbridge, an independent investment adviser to UK pension funds and part of MJ Hudson, the asset management consultancy, has appointed Antti Suhonen as Director. Suhonen has worked as an independent consultant and adviser to clients in the financial services sector,
Imperial Capital has added senior high yield professionals; James Book, institutional sales professional, and Daniel Derman, senior distressed trader, to its team. Book and Derman join Imperial Capital’s High Yield & Distressed Credit Group as Managing Directors based in New
Sentieo has launched a new cloud-based integrated Research Management System (RMS), which is aimed at helping analysts seamlessly organise research and collaborate with colleagues. The RMS provides deep analytics for investment professionals to identify and analyse behaviour and processes that
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to
Axioma has appointed Thomas D Severance (pictured), to the newly created position of Senior Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer. Severance was previously at IHS Markit for six years, where he most recently served as Managing Director, Markit Analytics, heading
Arcadia Agri has selected TradesParent’s Commodity Risk Management software (RM) to provide daily up-to-date insights, analytics, reporting and monitoring of the firm’s trading and risk exposures with its proprietary Control Board and intuitive Personalised Dashboards. Arcadia Agri is a specialist
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – 2017 is as good a time as any to be starting a new alternative investment firm, certainly better than it would have been a decade ago, but there are some key areas of focus
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman J Christopher Giancarlo has appointed Daniel Gorfine (pictured), to serve as Director of LabCFTC and Chief Innovation Officer, effective immediately. “Daniel is a well-respected leader whose expertise in market-enhancing FinTech will help
Alternative asset manager FS Investments has hired Michael Carter as Executive Vice President and Head of Strategy. Carter will be based in the firm’s Philadelphia headquarters, serve on the firm’s Executive Committee and oversee firm strategy and business development, with a
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a civil enforcement action against Daniel Winston LaMarco and his company, GDLogix Inc, charging them with off-exchange foreign currency derivatives (forex) fraud, commodity pool fraud, and failure to register with the
