The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Insurance & Retirement Services (I&RS). Prior to I&RS, insurance carriers and distributors were forced to
ATU Fund Administrators (BVI) Limited was the first fund administrator to receive a license from the Financial Services Commission in the BVI on 30th December, 1997. By the early 2000s it had grown to become the largest fund administrator on
Eze Castle Integration has launched the Eze Hybrid Cloud, a complete multi-cloud solution combining the Eze Private Cloud with Microsoft Cloud services to deliver a secure and flexible, fully managed environment. The Eze Hybrid Cloud innovation was born of Eze
Currently, there are 101 Approved Investment Managers licensed in the BVI, based on figures published by the Islands' financial regulator, the BVI Financial Services Commission (as of 30 September 2015). Factor in that the BVI now has two new fund
Regulatory and investor pressure have drastically altered the hedge fund industry in recent years. With managers increasingly looking for fund administrators to provide more middle-office and value-added services, whilst at the same time squeezing them on fees, the situation has
When the British Virgin Islands introduced the Approved Manager regime at the end of 2012 it was heralded as a significant step forward. With start-up managers facing dual pressures of investor preference for regulatory oversight, and higher barriers to entry
Mobile trading app Trade Interceptor has launched live FX trading. The apps’ global user base will benefit from full front-to-back functionality of the app, right from account creation, charting and analysis to placing trades and funding & withdrawals. The live
The challenge for any aspiring hedge fund start-up has been well documented in recent times. Year after year, the barriers to entry rise. Five years ago, the onset of global regulation prompted industry commentators to suggest that the break-even point
Liquidnet has now made its Algo Ranking Model technology available in Europe, building on a successful launch in the US. Using innovative technology and a multi-factor model, the Algo Ranking Model profiles every order to rank execution strategies in real-time
Nomura Asset Management (NAM) and Nomura Research Institute have conducted a proof of concept (PoC) study to examine natural language processing utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI). The objective of the PoC was to assess whether analysis with AI would contribute to
