Bank of America Merrill Lynch has expanded its global algorithmic trading platform into Brazil to meet increasing demand from international and local investors for more sophisticated trading products designed for Brazil’s Bovespa. The new offering includes several of Bank of
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) has issued an Order of Registration to the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM), a Foreign Board of Trade located in Tokyo, Japan. Under the Order, TOCOM is permitted to provide its identified members
FxPro Financial Services Limited (‘FxPro’) has launched a Prime-of-Prime service in a bid to attract institutional investors and enable them to benefit from greater transparency and trading cost efficiencies. With FxPro Prime, hedge funds, in particular start-ups (as well as
“Basel III and other regulatory issues and restrictions have a number of driving factors and downstream effects on tier one primes, which drives our whole investment thesis here at PrimeOne Solutions,” states Chris Chanod pictured), Global Head of Business Development,
“Our history is that we’ve been very welcoming to start-up hedge funds. Even as the opportunities to service larger managers grow, we’re not just walking away from what has been a significant part of our business,” says Jack Seibald (pictured),
By James Williams – On 4 August 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that Goldman Sachs had commenced culling its hedge fund client roster, offloading managers who simply weren’t generating enough return on equity. Fast forward to 7 December 2014.
Volante Technologies has enhanced Volante Designer version 5.0 to support the Hadoop framework. Integrating Hadoop functionality into Designer enables Volante clients to set up analytic conditions and feed data sets directly into a high-end analytical Hadoop environment of their choice.
Scotiabank is one of a stable of Canadian banks that have decided to enter the prime services space as regulation begins to shake up the established order. Basel III and other regulations are providing new entrants with similar opportunities that
“In 2011, we identified that larger prime brokers were pulling back on smaller hedge funds. We saw our opportunity at that point,” states Paul Kelly (pictured), CEO of London-based Linear Investments Limited; an FCA-approved full service mini prime broker (Linear
Japan attracted significant international interest following the launch of Abenomics – how should global hedge fund managers assess Japan, and the rest of Asia, as a long-term source of capital? The first two pillars of Abenomics, fiscal stimulus and monetary
