The CFTC has announced that Bloomberg SEF’s available-to-trade determinations (MAT determinations) for certain interest rate swap (IRS) and credit default swap (CDS) contracts are now self-certified. This self-certification involves only certain IRS and CDS contracts made available to trade via
Castle Hall Alternatives, a provider of operational due diligence, has launched HedgeDiligence, a web portal delivering due diligence information to the firm’s clients.
Clearstream, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Intesa Sanpaolo and BBVA are developing an asset servicing model for a market environment with TARGET2-Securities (T2S). Clearstream will connect via its central securities depository to the T2S platform, hence attracting settlement flows, while the
A surge in algorithmic trading helped drive a significant increase in the share of US equity trading volumes executed via electronic platforms last year, according to the results of Gre
The majority of investors in hedge funds, commodity trading advisors and private equity funds expect to increase their allocations to those private investments in 2012, according to a survey by AlphaMetrix. A total of 65 per cent of investment managers
Continuing on from the end of 2010, the stock market started the New Year at a steady pace. In a context of implicit volatility (19.5%) that was slightly on the rise but still below 20%, the S&P 500 index (+2.27%)
Half (51 per cent) of institutional investors are now actively seeking out investments through proactively contacting fund managers, with 5,600 investment professionals using Preqin’s platform to source potential investments. Since the launch of Preqin’s fund marketing platform in November 2013,
Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its London office. Formed in New York in 1969, SRZ is a legal service provider to the global hedge fund industry. SRZ opened its doors in London in September
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a final rule regarding changes to Part 4 of the Commission’s regulations involving registration and compliance obligations for commodity pool operators (CPO) and commodity trading advisors (CTA). The rule increases transparency to
The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) has reached 100 catastrophe bond programme and series listings, with a total face value of approximately USD8.5 billion. The CSX listed its first cat bond Ajax Re Ltd in 2007. The specialist listing rules of
