New US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Heath P Tarbert has made appointments to key positions in his Office. Jaime L Klima will serve as Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer, N Charles “Charlie” Thornton III will serve as
High set up costs could stymie the fortunes of emerging and start up managers before they even make their first step. Malta offers such organisations the opportunity to set up their business in a low-cost jurisdiction while taking advantage of
Man AHL, the pioneering quantitative investment unit of London-listed global hedge fund giant Man Group, has been given the green light for a qualified foreign institutional investor license in China. The QFII license will give Man AHL’s investment strategies based
TORA, a provider of a cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven pre-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) solution designed to help firms meet the stricter best execution requirements imposed by MiFID II. TORA’s new
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced its 100th whistleblower award since the creation of the SEC Whistleblower Program as part of the Dodd Frank Act in 2010. “The first 100 Dodd-Frank Act whistleblowers proved that whistleblowing works,” says leading
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and Alternative Credit Council (ACC) have welcomed the publication by the European Commission (EC) of the Capital Markets Union for people and businesses-new action plan (the CMU Action Plan). AIMA and ACC say their
The Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) has filed a product certification with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to offer bitcoin futures trading. The product certification is subject to regulatory review. The impending launch date of Cboe bitcoin futures, which will trade
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc (CME) and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) have self-certified new contracts for bitcoin futures products, and the Cantor Exchange (Cantor) has self-certified a new contract for bitcoin binary options. “Bitcoin, a virtual currency, is a
The days of thinking about single jurisdictions are long gone. When structuring a large private equity fund, for example, it is likely going to contain international investors (the US, Europe, Asia) and is, in effect, a commercial deal between all
Esprow, a provider of enterprise testing technology for the financial markets, has released version 3.0 of ETP Studio for FIX. Delivered as an in-premise solution, version 3.0 of ETP Studio for FIX includes more than 200 new features, with a
