Convergence has launched Advisor Complexity Profile (Complexity), a new service designed to address the challenge of operational and business model transparency in the alternative asset management industry. Complexity provides insight into all the major alternative asset classes, including hedge
ACTIV Financial, a provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data solutions and big xyt, a provider of cloud-based data and analytics solutions across large datasets, are to launch the ACTIV X-ray Store, allowing customers to access delayed tick data from
Though the market data industry has operated fundamentally in the same manner for over a generation, the advent of cloud-based service delivery is bringing change for the options available to the capital markets community. TABB Group’s latest report, “Stairway to
TIGF, the French natural gas system and storage operator, is to extend the operating schedule of market-based balancing operations on the Trading Region South hub via the PEGAS platform as of 15 February 2017. TIGF’s interventions on PEGAS previously took
Non-bank prime services firm Invast Global’s CEO, Gavin White (pictured), has been nominated for appointment to the Board of the Japan-listed parent company, Invast Securities Co, Ltd. Invast Global continues to enjoy remarkable success with its acclaimed PurePrime multi-asset
Where the vulnerabilities are – It’s 3:40 on a Friday afternoon, and an urgent email hits a back-office employee’s inbox. As the employee scrambles to get ready for the market-close and head off to a three-day weekend, it looks like
The past 12 months has seen The Bahamas review its existing legislative framework for investment funds, with a view to ensuring that it maintains its competitiveness. Under the existing framework, some of the innovations that The Bahamas has introduced, such
There has been a continued evolution of the asset management operating model over the last couple of years. Gradually, both traditional long-only managers and alternative fund managers have been shifting away from a multi-vendor, purpose built system model to more
MarketAxess Holdings has added the ability to trade local currency Asian bonds to its electronic trading platform. The initiative is part of a commitment to expanding in the Asia Pacific region which includes opening an office in Hong Kong, the
The current bull market started in March 2009 and is now in its 80th month. Like the bulls of the past, this current one will end, maybe not just now, but eventually. Our models don’t detect a bear market yet,
