LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear service will be launching new interest rate portfolio margining capabilities for its members and their clients around the world. Under the new offering, market participants using SwapClear, the largest interest rate derivatives liquidity pool, and LCH.Clearnet's listed rates
Average daily volume (ADV) during February for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2) and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) was 4.7 million contracts, a decrease of 22 per cent from February
Apex Fund Services has acquired Pinnacle Fund Administration. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Pinnacle operates additional offices in New York and Vancouver. Fund managers in the US and Canada are seeking to partner with stable providers that can provide a
RS Investments has launched two new long/short alternative mutual funds: the RS Focused Opportunity Fund (RSFOX) and the RS Focused Growth Opportunity Fund (RSFGX). Both funds will be available to retail and institutional investors. “We’re focused on providing our clients
Automated trading specialist Alistair Brown – co-founder of Lime Brokerage – is turning his attention to fixed income with the launch of OpenBondX, an electronic “all-to-all” trading platform for US corporate bonds. The ATS aims to attract new liquidity
The D E Shaw group has launched Arcesium, a new, independently operated technology and service company that will provide asset managers with software and service solutions for their post-trade activities. Arcesium’s fully hosted technology platform offers asset managers sophisticated post-trade
TOBAM, the Paris-based asset manager, has secured USD2.1 billion in net new inflows across its Anti-Benchmark strategies, since 1 December, 2014. In all, the company has recorded total net inflows of USD2.6 billion since the start of 2014, which contributed
An article in the Financial Times this week reported that some industry figures believe an alternative Ucits III-compliant vehicle could
Zurich-headquartered global hedge fund investment firm, GAM, launched their UCITS III-compliant Star Dynamic Global Bond fund this month.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a rapidly growing investment theme and its dynamics will increasingly impact on both Developed and other Emerging Markets. The region is particularly interesting to investors on account of both the demographics, the rate of change of the
