Kinetic Partners has joined forces with the London Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista to offer a full-service transaction reporting solution. The partnership will offer a complete solution to both Kinetic Partners and UnaVista’s clients and other MiFID investment firms, including regulatory
Electronic US Treasuries (UST) trading venue LiquidityEdge has announced record trading volumes during October 2018. Average daily trading volumes reached USD15 billion, whilst on 3 October, participants traded over USD22 billion in US Treasuries across both on-the-runs and off-the-runs.
LiquidX, a global network for illiquid assets, continued its rapid expansion in the third quarter, as the firm added new market participants, new products and new technology. The quarter was capped by a 43 per cent increase in September volume
BATS Global Markets and Direct Edge completed their merger on 31 January, creating one of the world’s largest stock exchange operators. In January, combined US market share of the BATS and Direct Edge exchanges reached 20.54 per cent compared to
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has completed the acquisition of Hedgepoint Solutions, a boutique IT consulting firm based in New York City. “Abacus Group has been doing some amazing things
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.7 million contracts in February (Feb 2011: 10.3 million). Of those, 6.0 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (Feb 2011: 7.1 million), and 2.7 million contracts were at
Gottex Fund Management has launched its Swedish multi-asset UCITS product on the Folksam unit linked platform and has opened its Scandinavian office. Gottex recently launched the Gottex GMA Balanserad Fund, a daily dealing UCITS fund, on the Folksam unit-linked platform
In a new publication entitled “Making the most of UCITS IV – A flexible approach by Management Company profile”, asset servicing provider, CACEIS, sets out the business development and restructuring opportunities for management companies under the forthcoming UCITS IV regime
The selloff in October was difficult to navigate for hedge funds, but there were substantial divergences across strategies, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Lyxor writes: “L/S Equity and Event-Driven strategies underperformed due to
International Solutions Network (ISN), a San Francisco-based consulting company with offices in London and New York City, has joined the Investment Association’s (IA) Velocity FinTech Accelerator as a Consulting Company Partner. ISN a capital markets and FinTech consulting company and
