Barclays Plc is tapping an increasing appetite from Asia-based quantitative and multi-strategy hedge funds for prime financing services and has upped its lending for investment trades as a result, according to a report by Bloomberg. The move comes as some
The Citco group of companies has opened a new office for the firm’s asset-servicing operations in Guernsey, offering fund accounting, fund operations and company secretarial with the key business focus centred on automation.
Transaction Network Services has enhanced its European backbone, aimed at delivering increased capacity to support an ever-increasing volume of market data from multiple exchanges to any location across Europe.Â
Fund management technology platform Truss Edge has launched an app that provides hedge fund and other asset managers with access to its Safari portfolio management and operations technology while on the move, via both Android and iOS devices.
Much of the financial industry still operates on legacy technology, resulting in fragmented systems and interfaces which leave participants unable to be as agile and responsive as they need to be. Cloud-native clearing and custody systems can improve efficiency while
MarketAxess Holdings Inc, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has completed the the first client algorithmic trade executed across multiple protocols using Adaptive Auto-X, the company’s multi-protocol automated execution solution, currently in pilot. MarketAxess also announced
Arcesium, a global fintech serving sophisticated financial institutions including hedge funds and private equity firms, has partnered with Confluence, a global investment tech solutions provider, to deliver an integrated data management and analytics solution for middle/back-office operations for asset managers.
In the context of growing demand for digital assets, hedge funds operating in the space need to make a choice critical to the growth of their business – do they build their digital infrastructure or buy in the capabilities from
The rapid growth of digital assets has created unique challenges and opportunities as the industry balances the needs of an innovative, ambitious sector with the checks and balances needed to ensure the security and safekeeping of assets. Market structures are
Hedge funds that want to be active in the crypto space are immediately faced with the difficulty of how to execute on their trading strategies. Other asset classes, like equities or commodities, don’t present this problem in such a heightened
