A brisk month of trading on the secondary market saw investors move funds in all available asset classes, according to Hedgebay’s Global Hedge Fund Secondary Market Index, with private equity and credit strategies particularly popular. The diversification of trading in
Edge Technology Group, a global technology advisory and fully-managed IT service provider catering for hedge funds, private equity firms and family offices worldwide, has been awarded the International Standard Organisation (ISO) 27001 certification for its information security systems’ infrastructure and operations supporting its Hong
Merlin Securities, a prime brokerage services and technology provider, has released the Merlin Compass iPad application. Merlin Compass for iPad is a real-time analytics platform that provides portfolio managers with intraday performance, exposure and risk metrics. Merlin’s hedge fund clients
In March 2013, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 9.7 million contracts, down from 10.1 million contracts in March 2012. Of those, 7.3 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (March 2012: 7.4 million),
March 2013 was the third consecutive month in which total volume in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) and total exchange-wide trading reached new all-time highs. A record 3,220,977 VIX futures contracts traded during March, exceeding the 3,062,344
Itiviti, a global provider of multi-asset trading technology and financial infrastructure, today announced that India-based brokerage firm Edelweiss Securities Limited (ESL) has deployed Itiviti’s client connectivity and trading solution to support its algorithmic trading business. ESL made the decision to
Volumes on FXSpotStream grew at the fastest rate of all reporting eFX cash venues during the first half of 2018. Alan F Schwarz, CEO of FXSpotStream, says: “Our Average Daily Volume (ADV) was up 49 per cent in the first
MSCI has launched a new version of Barra Portfolio Manager, which features advanced workflow tools designed to help portfolio managers improve their investment processes and goals. One of the critical advancements in this version is historical strategy simulation. Analytics
A paper on the impact of the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reveals that transaction reporting for securities financing trades may create five times as many reports as trades when the regulation takes effect, which is expected in early 2020.
NYSE Liffe, the Europe-based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, says the rules and trading procedures of the Amsterdam and Brussels derivatives markets have been harmonised after regulatory approval of their respective regulators, the AFM and the CBFA. This harmonisation is
