MainFirst, an independent German-headquartered European financial services firm specialising in equity brokerage, capital markets and asset management, has completed the migration to Torstone’s middle and back office platform, Inferno. Inferno is Torstone’s core post-trade processing platform, a multi-asset, multi-entity system,
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased its volume on the power derivatives market in June by 14 per cent to 263.6 TWh compared to the previous year. This growth was driven in particular by the German (161.8 TWh, +22 per
SEI has welcomed three new participants to Codify, the company’s new Regulation Technology (RegTech) incubator. Codify is the first London-based incubator designed solely for financial regulation technology developers. The incubator provides participants with crucial business resources and development opportunities, including
Global hedge fund middle office and accounting firm Viteos has been awarded Best Global Shadow Accounting Firm at the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017. Hedgeweek notes that the awards recognise “excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers (and) celebrate the achievements
Triple Leo Consulting, founded by industry veteran Mike Quinn, has launched its full-service hedge fund administration and operational consulting business based in the Philadelphia suburbs. Triple Leo will offer full-service fund administration and operational consulting services to alternative investment managers,
Data processing power has helped to transform the financial industry, thanks to the rise of GPU-powered applications; GPUs are Graphics Processing Units, commonly used by video game developers. Today, not only hedge fund managers but all asset managers, are looking
For newly emerging investment firms or long-standing established ones, the choice to adopt a cloud-based architecture is becoming an easy one. Few firms have a business model where an in-house Comm. Room makes strategic or economic sense. And even for
ACA Technology Solutions has enhanced its trade surveillance product, Decryptex, to assist global clients in meeting the EU’s current Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) requirements and the EU’s upcoming revision to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). Decryptex is
Axioma was founded by Chief Executive Officer Sebastian Ceria in 1998 and is a leading provider of innovative risk and portfolio management solutions, supporting the industry's largest, most sophisticated hedge fund managers and asset management groups. The company's product offering
By Don A Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA), one of the most important organizations in the investment industry, is expected to announce performance presentation standards for the hedge fund industry sometime later this year. Currently, they are
