PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, reported its best monthly volume in 2018 with 193.3 TWh traded in November. Once again, the spot segment posted a strong activity with 103.9 TWh, including the highest traded volume on
BNP Paribas has selected FIS’ Cleared Derivatives Margin Advisor, a solution that enables sell-side firms, investment funds and institutional investors to better assess and calculate initial margin requirements on cleared derivatives portfolios. FIS’ Cleared Derivatives Margin Advisor replicates margin requirements
Bitwise Asset Management, creator of what it says is the world’s first cryptocurrency index fund, has launched two new low-cost, liquid beta funds, holding bitcoin and ether exclusively. The Bitwise Bitcoin Fund and the Bitwise Ethereum Fund are the
GLG Partners, the London-based manager with USD12.5 billion assets, has raised USD100 million for its first hedge fund investing in equities in Japan. According to
CME, the largest US futures exchange, has surpassed its one billionth contract traded since its launch in June 1992. The one billionth contract was traded on 19 Oc
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) has appointed a new management team for its London-based prime brokerage business. The move follows the departure of the forme
Analytics Ventures, a fund dedicated to creating and building venture companies that harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, has added AlphaTrAI – a proprietary AI-based automated trading platform that fuses the latest explainable AI (XAI) techniques with multiple
Singapore Exchange has launched Asia’s first dividend futures contract, the Nikkei Dividend Point Index Futures contract. Since its 17 June debut, the contract has achieved total volume of over JPY1.5bn as at 1.00am Singapore time today. Bid-ask spreads have been
Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) (OMAM) has placed additional capacity in the Old Mutual UK Specialist Equity Fund with new and existing investors. The additional inv
Koger, a provider of software and services for the fund administration industry, has launched the next version of NTAS, its transfer agency solution. NTAS 10.1 introduces a number of enhancements and new features that expand the tools available to the
