The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on cybersecurity, and the challenges of remote working on start-up hedge funds’ business operations, proved a key theme at this year’s hedgeweekLIVE North America event, ‘Managing a Start-up or Emerging Hedge Fund in 2020’.
Digital asset price weakness prompted investors to add positions last week, with net inflows into investment products totalling USD74 million, according to the latest Digital Assets Weekly Fund Flows report from CoinShares. Ether achieved its highest market share, peaking at
Mercury Digital Assets (Mercury), a technology provider for digital asset markets, has partnered with DV Chain to further enhance access to diverse pools of OTC crypto liquidity. Mercury’s clients can now access DV Chain’s institutional-grade liquidity via Mercury’s BEACON OEMS
LeadingMile Consulting (LeadingMile), a European, full-service consultancy firm specialising in solution implementation for the alternative investment sector, has expansion to the United Kingdom. Lloyd Dean, a former eFront and Charles River Development executive, joins Amsterdam-based LeadingMile Consulting, bringing his broad
Following regulatory approval from the FCA, JTC has completed the acquisition of INDOS Financial, as announced in February 2021. INDOS Financial builds on JTC’s well-established fund services capabilities and will allow the Group to offer enhanced governance and technical
Fund management technology platform Truss Edge has released the second phase of its Insight analytics as part of its May software release, bringing unique perspectives and a much higher level of configurability to fund manager operations. Insight was released earlier
Clearstream, Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trading services provider, has selected Finomial’s client lifecycle management technology to automate trade documentation completion for alternative investments, including hedge funds and private equity.As a leading alternative funds custodian specialising in alternative investments, Clearstream places trades
By Neil Coxhead (pictured), Waystone – On 7 May 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), unveiled plans to create a new regime with the specific aim of channelling investment into more illiquid assets, giving asset managers a hint of how
Founded in 1990, Rees Pollock has officially become the Financial Services team at leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg, and the Rees Pollock name will now no longer be used.
In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes – Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Twitterisation, and Uberisation –
