London-based asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson, has acquired Amaces, a data and analytics firm, which provides tools and consulting services to help institutional investors benchmark and monitor the cost and quality of the investor services they receive from their custodian
Canterbury Consulting, a Newport Beach-based institutional investment advisory firm with more than USD18.3 billion in assets under management, will turn to Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), in a multi-year relationship to efficiently digitise, track and organise thousands of documents and data points.
Axioma, a provider of enterprise risk management, portfolio management and regulatory reporting solutions, has added a new Emerging Markets risk model (AXEM4) to its Equity Factor Risk Model Suite. AXEM4 incorporates the latest methodologies and research, plus a deep daily
Estera, a provider of funds, corporate and trust services, has moved to its new, state of the art offices in Guernsey. It will see the firm’s fund administration, accounting and reporting services, as well as their corporate and trust services
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the crypto-asset industry, has launched with the support of a USD6 million se round led by Distributed Global, Digital Currency Group, Morgan Creek, Galaxy Digital, Jump Capital, CMT Digital,
Liquidnet, a global institutional investment network, has acquired RSRCHXchange, a marketplace and aggregator for institutional research. Liquidnet will now be able to deliver relevant, actionable insights directly to investment teams through the Liquidnet platform. Following its acquisition of OTAS Technologies
Plato Partnership, a not-for-profit company bringing creative solutions and efficiencies to today’s equity marketplace, is collaborating with BMLL Technologies to provide twelve daily T+1 market quality metrics to enable more transparency and information across the trading landscape in Europe. This
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has launched a new ‘MiFID II Eligibility as a Service’ tool. MiFID II brings many challenges to buy and sell-side firms, including the requirement to report trades to the regulator on a
How are hedge funds changing their research methods in the wake of MiFID II? Joe McGrath investigates… The introduction of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) in January 2018 heralded fundamental changes in the market, specifically when
