OTCXN has signed Prime Trust to serve as a neutral, third-party custodian of assets for trading entities and exchanges that use OTCXN technology to facilitate clearing and settlement of OTC block trades and cross-exchange trading. Prime Trust is a
Baring Asset Management (BAM) is seeking returns of 15 per cent per annum for its new Baring Japan Absolute Return Fund, which launched on 1 July. The fund, which
Research and consulting firm Carbon360 has launched the Fund Administration Market, a service designed to aid fund managers with the selection of fund administrators. The free service matches fund managers with the best-qualified administrators for their needs. It also aims
BISYS has appointed John Vancura as vice president of business development for its Private Equity Services division. Vancura, who has nearly 20 years of financial
J.P. Morgan has become a general clearing participant in EuroCCP, which provides clearing and settlement services for a range of European markets. J.P. Morgan will be able to offer its clients the ability to trade on any of the venues
Numerix has launched its LiquidAsset SDK (Software Development Kit), which is designed to scale as an institutions’ modelling or investment requirements grow, and can integrate Numerix’s market standard analytics into its own system or that of a third party using
Orolia has launched the VelaSync 1232 high speed, low-latency time server that is specifically designed for high frequency financial trading. This ultra-accurate solution can also be equipped with Orolia’s Resilient PNT technology suite to provide additional data security and reliability,
Credit hedge funds should not be considered part of the ‘shadow banking’ sector, according to a new paper by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund trade association. AIMA’s research paper* highlights crucial differences between the key
CryptoCompare, the global cryptocurrency market data provider, has today published the Cryptoasset Taxonomy Report, which provides retail and institutional investors, regulators and the industry as a whole with an independent classification of crypto assets, based on the depth, breadth and
A new research paper from Edhec shows how the alpha benefits of using fixed-income derivatives can be successfully transported to a core investor portfolio. The pap
