At the end of November the Cayman Islands’ hedge fund industry passed a milestone with the registration of the 10,000th fund to be authorised by the

Banking statistics announced this week are further evidence of a great year for Guernsey, according to GuernseyFinance chief executive Peter Niven. Deposits held wi

InteDelta, the risk management and financial consultancy, has launched a new risk health check for hedge funds. The health check, the first in a series the company

GlobeOp Financial Services has appointed Simon Behan to the newly created post of head of European sales and marketing. Behan, who joined the firm on 5 December, pr

Appleby says it will become the first member of the ‘offshore magic circle’ of international law firms to establish a presence in Switzerland when it opens an office in Zurich on December

Quantifi Inc it has integrated Markit Group Limited’s credit default swap pricing into its credit models. Customers can now automatically calibrate Quantifi’s adva

Beauchamp Financial Technology (BFT) has extended its product suite with the launch of a new Application Programming Interface (API).  Beauchamp’s API is two-way,

Wood Creek Capital Management, LLC has appointed Avtar Vasu as the firm’s new Chief Investment Officer. Wood Creek is a joint venture of Norfolk Management Group, LLC, an investment holding company specializing in alternative investments, and Babson Capital Management LLC,

Local regulations have until 2003 been a major constraint to launch hedge funds in Germany, and have prevented German investors from directly investing in non-German funds.<

Three reasons come to mind if asked why a risk management and monitoring framework should be put in place: satisfying external risk reporting needs; ensuring that possible losses/t