Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX), the world’s first commodity exchange for physically settled diamonds, has raised USD10 million in Series B+ financing. The round, which closed on June, was led by existing investors Vertex Ventures and SDiX Chairman Alain Vandenborre
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has registered a new annual record on its dairy futures market in 2015 with a total volume of 29,380 tonnes – 5,876 contracts – traded in this sector throughout the year. This surpasses the previous
First Derivatives (FD), a provider of software and consulting services, has acquired the entire issued share capital of QuantumKDB in a deal worth up to up to GBP2.2 million. The acquisition provides the Group with complementary consultancy expertise to support
Societe Generale Prime Services has created the new SG CTA Mutual Fund Index, a performance benchmark for 1940 Act US registered mutual funds that pursue managed futures strategies. The new CTA Mutual Fund Index is the fourth daily index designed
Markit is to acquire the position reconciliation technology assets of DTCC Loan/SERV (Loan/SERV), a subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Nearly 400 asset managers representing approximately 6,000 funds in the global syndicated loan market use the Loan/SERV
Athena Systems has launched Spark, a new cloud-based platform to help new hedge fund launches meet current and emerging DDQ requirements necessary to compete for assets with more established funds. The pricing model of the platform is tied to a
Neuberger Berman has acquired an investment team that manages collateralised index-based options portfolios that seek to capture global volatility premiums, from Horizon Kinetics. The team’s investment track records, proprietary research and client assets have also transferred to Neuberger Berman.
The Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has held a meeting in Leipzig to determine how the Phelix Future for the market area Germany/Austria should be determined after the common German-Austrian price zone split. The meeting was chaired
We enter 2016 with the same slow and fragile conditions as experienced at the end of 2015. Contradictory macro policies, such as tighter regulations vs. accommodative monetary policies, competitive easing and devaluations, has resulted in conflicting impacts on the markets.
Vista Fund Services (Vista) has selected Linedata Admin Edge to run all its fund administration services in Gibraltar as demand for its specialist services grows. With business expanding, Vista decided to move away from its in-house system to one designed
