Even though interest rates have been rising, institutional investors continue to show interest in alternative investments. Sofia Harrschar (pictured), Head of Alternative Investments and Structuring at Universal Investment Group, explores the evolving dynamics of the market and highlights key opportunities
CME Group, a derivatives marketplace, has announced that open interest in its deeply liquid SOFR complex set a new record of 60,435,467 contracts on December 12, including 48.3 million options contracts and 12.1 million futures contracts.
Trading Technologies International, Inc (TT), a global capital markets technology platform provider, has launched two new lines of business, TT Compliance and TT Quantitative Trading Solutions (QTS), to further support the company’s growth into new asset classes.
BMLL, an independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3 data and analytics across global equity and futures markets, has completion of its China data offering with the addition of Shanghai alongside Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Derivatives marketplace CME Group is to launch CME FX Spot+, a new, all-to-all spot FX marketplace that will connect cash market participants with the company’s FX futures liquidity. The offering will be available for client testing in H2 2024.
Avelacom, a provider of connectivity & IT infrastructure solutions designed to improve market making, arbitrage and liquidity aggregation strategies, has completed its backhaul network upgrade, resulting in latency improvements between European and US exchanges and those in Asia and the
Options Technology, a capital markets services provider has formed a new partnership with Systemathics, a solutions provider in the asset management and the algorithmic trading industry to launch a ‘next generation’ market data solution.
San Franciso-based fintech startup Playfair Tech has unveiled a new AI engine designed to help hedge funds better predict market trends and process millions of data points from platforms such as Twitter, Reddit and Instagram.
FlexTrade Systems, a specialist in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has partnered with BTON Financial to provide users of FlexTRADER EMS with access to AI-driven broker selection suggestions.
Planixs, a provider of real-time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions, has launched Realiti Insights which provides actionable liquidity data and analytics, delivering risk, revenue, regulatory and business resiliency insights.
