The first trades in GMEX’s Euro-denominated IRS Constant Maturity Future (IRS CMF) have been successfully executed, cleared and settled. This new product has been available for the electronic arranging of transactions on GMEX’s platform with trade confirmation and clearing on
Once a fund manager has got the middle office infrastructure in place – the hardware as it were – the logical next step is to work out how best to utilise it. How can the flow of data – and
Options, the leading managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has today announced that the Minnesota-based hedge fund, Whitebox Advisors, has selected Options as its new managed IT provider. The deal has seen Whitebox migrate
Intralinks’ Todd Partridge (pictured) advises a multi-pillar approach to guard against cyber attack. In light of high-profile hacking events, where the likes of JP Morgan, Home Depot, and, most notably, Sony suffered significant losses of information, it is incumbent
Trading volume in July for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options Exchange (C2) and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) was 106.5 million contracts, an increase of 7 per cent from June 2015 and
Cim Fund Services, one of the largest fund administrators in Mauritius, is going live with the eFront’s flagship FrontInvest solution. Cim Fund Services will use the automation capabilities of FrontInvest to provide premium administration services for sophisticated alternative investment funds
Eze Software Group has released a number of new features for the buy-side and the sell-side in the latest version of its EMS. Enhancements include actionable IOI support, securities borrowing improvements and enriched support for ACT reporting. Traders now can
Bermuda remains fully committed to the process of qualifying under rules set out by the European Union for third-country rights for Island-based alternative fund managers. The European Securities Market Authority (ESMA) last week cleared the way for Guernsey, Jersey and
The EU Commission has confirmed its continued endorsement of Guernsey as a cooperative jurisdiction following a meeting between officials in Brussels. This news was welcomed in Guernsey, which has a strong record in meeting international standards as a cooperative and
Elliptic, a full-service bitcoin custodian for the capital markets, has partnered with developer API provider Gem to enhance Gem’s multi-signature bitcoin wallets. The most important part of holding bitcoin is safeguarding the private keys (or passwords) to the account. A
