Regulatory and fee pressures are forcing the hedge fund industry to evolve, but a lively panel debate at the annual Linedata Exchange Europe client conference in London affirmed that with the right investment approach, infrastructure and distribution strategy, hedge funds
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – The global financial crisis and subsequent recession happened almost a decade ago, but their legacy goes on and on, with more stringent regulations and bigger fines every year. The
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order of Registration to LedgerX (LedgerX), granting it registration status with the CFTC as a Swap Execution Facility (SEF). LedgerX is a limited liability company registered in Delaware with its
The final regulations of MiFID II announced today are likely to lose brokers business, analysts their jobs and also hit fund managers’ profits says Cleveland & Co Associates, the boutique legal advisory business. Among the new regulations of MiFID II,
The US CFTC has entered into non-prosecution agreements with the former Citigroup Global Markets traders – Jeremy Lao of New York, New York, Daniel Liao (of Minato-Ku, Japan, and Shlomo Salant of New York, New York. In their non-prosecution agreements,
McObject and GoldenSource have teamed up to deliver deliver what they say is the fastest available Enterprise Data Management (EDM) designed for regulatory compliance, using McObject’s database technology, eXtremeDB, in the GoldenSource Market Data Solution. GoldenSource is an independent provider
A new survey by JWG has found that 90 per cent of buy-side firms believe they are at either high or medium risk of not being MiFID II compliant by the January 2018 deadline, despite this date having already been
The drive towards unbundling research budgets from execution services under MiFID II will alter the fund industry landscape, placing greater pressure on smaller asset managers as the research tap – funded by commissions spent by their billion dollar brethren –
Regulatory data exchange Silverfinch has highlighted the importance of ensuring all data is securely stored and managed in the lead up to the regulatory step change of MiFID II. From 3 January 2018, MiFID II product governance will require manufacturers
The European Commission must prioritise non-bank finance and deeper capital markets as part of its regulatory review, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). AIMA made the comments in its response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on
