Apex Group (Apex) has appointed Julie Ferguson as Co-Head of Throgmorton Compliance Solutions, working alongside previously announced Co-Head Mel Scotland.Ferguson brings an extensive record of accomplishment and experience across all non-investment areas. In addition to her background in the traditional
Circle Partners is an independent fund administrator with offices in the BVI, Cayman Islands, and across the EU, the Americas and Hong Kong. "We've seen a lot of growth in new BVI fund vehicles over the last 12 months –
"We see the funds industry as continuing to contribute to the overall offering of financial services. There remains good interest in the BVI product and we envisage that will continue," asserts Glenford Malone, Director, Investment Business Division, BVI Financial Services
INTL FCStone has executed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire outsourced trading firm Fillmore Advisors. This news follows-on from the announcement that INTL launched a Prime Brokerage division in April of this year – with Fillmore Advisors now becoming
By Mary Beth Hamilton – According to research firm Gartner, by 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today. Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated in recent years…[Additionally], hybrid will
Alpine Global Master Fund, a long/short market-neutral hedge fund, has appointed Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) to provide hedge fund administration services and middle office outsourcing. The fund has a fundamental based quantitative investment methodology and is managed by BOCOM International
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) intends to enable negative prices on its natural gas spot markets as of 1 October 2020, following a number of key price fluctuations which have taken place in the market over the recent months. Driven by
Asahi Pretec, a precious metals recycling company, has selected smartTrade Technologies, a specialist in multi-asset, end-to-end trading solutions, as technology provider to deliver Asahi’s precious metals trading platform, with NTTData, a major Japanese system integrator, as a partner. smartTrade will
Hedgd, a provider of software and services aimed at giving firms full visibility over transactions throughout the trade lifecycle, has joined UnaVista’s Partner Programme. UnaVista is London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) global hosted platform for all matching, validation and reconciliation
Truss Edge, an independent middle and back office technology solutions suite for fund managers, has further improved its data management, systems infrastructure and performance capabilities. The improvements come as part of its latest update to its core software.Other improvements have
