J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has developed an asset allocation and manager selection analysis tool that enables clients to plan and map the risk-return implications of their current and new portfolios. The Portfolio Construction Tool allows plan sponsors and other
Eurex Exchange has launched a new initiative – including a four-month fee holiday for EURIBOR futures – designed to further enhance the appeal of its short-term interest rate derivatives suite. The zero fees period on trading and clearing of EURIBOR
CarryQuote a provider of integrated desktop and mobile financial information solutions, has signed its reseller agreement in the US with EmergingTraders.com, an alternative investment management company. The partnership enables EmergingTraders.com to offer a branded version of the CarryQuote solution to
The Market Authority of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange is making available transaction settlement at Euroclear UK & Ireland for CISX-traded open ended investment companies from 30 November 2009. The CISX has been trading Oeic since March 2005, and will
Eurex is to license Global Markets Exchange Group’s (GMEX) Euro-denominated Constant Maturity Future (CMF) for trading via Eurex’s Multilateral Trade Registration (MTR) service and clearing on Eurex Clearing. The CMF is based on the Interest Rate Swap Index Average (IRSIA)
Options, a private financial cloud provider for the global capital markets industry, plans to build a giant data centre in northwest Iceland, at the very tip of the Arctic Circle. As part of the announcement, the IaaS provider also confirmed that
ICSA, the Institute for professionals working in governance and compliance, is launching four new Level 4 (the equivalent of first year undergraduate) qualifications for offshore finance professionals. The new International Finance and Administration qualifications replace ICSA’s Certificate in Offshore Finance
Gravitas Technology, a technology and solution provider to alternative investment and financial services companies, has launched The Gravitas Fractional CIO offering to provide strategic information technology guidance to hedge funds. This is the first fractional CIO service targeted exclusively to
New capital and leverage ratios being mandated by the Basel III rules will penalise prime brokers whose securities financing operations will be incrementally included as risk exposure that requires a capital buffer. TABB Group says that the rules, treatment of
Intercontinental Exchange is to sell approximately 4.2 million shares in Euronext NV, representing approximately 6% of Euronext’s share capital, by way of an accelerated book-building to institutional investors. Following the sale, assuming all shares are sold, ICE will no longer
