STOXX Ltd, operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of tradable index concepts, has extended the STOXX Select and STOXX Diversification Select index families that were introduced in October 2015. The newly launched indices combine investment
Bloomberg has launched the Entity Exchange platform, a web-based, centralised and secure solution that enables buy-side firms to provide entity data and documentation to their trading counterparties. Entity Exchange eases the process of opening new trade accounts for the buy-side,
Neptune, the open standards network utility for pre-trade indications in bond markets, has completed connectivity to Fidessa's buy-side OMS platform to distribute high quality pre-trade data to assist the buy-side with liquidity and price discovery utilising their existing workflows. With
American Century Investments has expanded its liquid alternatives offering with the launch of the AC Alternatives Long Short Fund, the second multi-manager fund to be launched under the firm's AC Alternatives brand. The new fund uses an open architecture subadvisor
The US CFTC has ordered Citibank to pay a USD250 million civil monetary penalty to settle charges that it attempted to manipulate, and made false reports concerning, the US Dollar International Swaps and Derivatives Association Fix (USD ISDAFIX), a global
The unlisted natural resources debt fundraising market has developed since the financial crisis, with 54 funds closing since 2010 raising a combined USD29 billion. The most successful year of fundraising occurred in 2013 when 15 funds reached a final close,
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is to expand its offering on the Power Derivatives Market with further short-term maturities. From 16 June 2016, day and weekend contracts for peak-load deliveries of power can be traded in the French and Italian
Phase 2 of GMEX Technologies’ project to implement the warehouse receipt system AvenirWRS at the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) in Malawi, is now live. This latest project phase delivers warehouse receipts creation, management and financing. Associated activities include
Four out of six of IndexIQ’s family of IQ Hedge Indexes recorded positive performance in April, with the IQ Hedge Long/Short Index leading the way with a return of 1.25 per cent. The other positive performers were the IQ Hedge
Managed futures traders lost 0.05 per cent in April according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index has gained 0.95 per cent in the first four months of 2016. “Improvement in the financial outlook for the US,
