Custom Connect has reduced the latency in its microwave link between LD4 Equinix Slough and FR2 Equinix Frankfurt to as low as 4.572ms for a round trip. Custom Connect co-founder Jan Willem Meijer (pictured), says traders and risk managers will
Lightkeeper LLC is the leading provider of portfolio intelligence tools to the hedge fund community. Its lightweight, mobile and cost effective software solution allows users to manage and manipulate large portfolio data sets. With Lightkeeper, investment professionals can analyse important
CoinShares XBT Provider family of crypto exchange traded products (ETPs), wich provide investors throughout Europe with a simple way to access digital assets via their existing broker or platform, now have over USD1 billion in assets.Read the full story at
For someone who prides himself on building things, the opportunity for Kevin LoPrimo (pictured) to develop a footprint for Cowen Prime Services in London1 was too good to overlook. Last June, LoPrimo was officially unveiled as Head of International Prime
By Mary Beth Hamilton – There has been discussion for years about whether public or private cloud platforms were more suitable to financial and investment management firms. And that debate continues, but with the addition of a new player –
Active asset management company J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) is to directly pay for external research used by its fund management teams when the reforms to the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (known as MiFID II) come into
In this Q&A, Geoff Ruddick of IMS Fund Services explains why ‘governance is not a game’, and how capacity, form over substance, and board composition, remain fundamental issues… You mentioned in your last article that ‘Governance is not a game’ –
Harmonate has appointed Kevin Walkup as CEO, as the firm looks to accelerate its data operations platform for fund administration.“We are seeing a historic evolution in fund administration from a professional services model, to a fundstech model driven by data
Derivative exchange Eurex has launched another new product to support market participants in the electronification of their trading business. As of 30 October, Eurex Market-on-Close (MOC) futures provide a concept to trade index futures at a price level directly linked
FENICS Market Data, the Market Data division of BGC Partners (BGCP), is to exclusively provide China Credit BGC Money Broking Company Limited’s (CCT-BGC) Chinese market data products to global clients. Through this agreement, FENICS Market Data is becoming the sole
