David Lee, previously with Bellerophon Investment Management, has joined Gartmore’s Macro Hedge Fund team in London. At Bellerphon Mr L
Derivix, a financial services software company, has secured investment from J.P. Morgan and S.A.C. Venture Investments, an affiliate of S.A.C. Capital Advisors. Derivix’s analytics functionality, broker-neutral execution and portfolio risk platform provides clients with solutions to meet the increasingly competitive
Horizon Software (Horizon), a provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, has released a new version of its global EOMS product, adding significant and unique improvements for the automation of client order/execution workflow to its already market-leading solution. The enhancements,
LCH.Clearnet has cleared the first credit default swap index contracts. Both regulators and market participants have been keen to see clearing for CDS introduced to bring security and transparency to the OTC derivatives markets. The service, launched in response to
SJ Berwin has appointed Achim Pütz as a partner in its German team.
A new venture called Skytra has been launched by Airbus to develop highly regulated financial instruments and infrastructure to support the air travel industry’s risk management of its revenues.Skytra has developed a family of global and regional indices which track
Deaglo, a cross-border advisory firm that provides FX execution and risk management solutions to institutional investors, investment managers, multinational corporations and private clients, has launched. The firm says its aim is to ‘educate and empower CFOs to take control of their
Hedge fund clients now have direct access to their data through a new online portfolio reporting tool introduced by UMB Fund Services. The portal is intuitive yet comprehensive, providing hedge fund clients with the information they need to analyse investments.
RiskMetrics Group, a provider of risk management and corporate governance services, is to partner with Syncova, a margin management services provider, to deliver a solution for risk based margin management via the Optima platform for hedge funds and prime brokers.
Eurex Exchange is to introduce a new interest rate future, the Mid-Term Euro-OAT Future, which is based on notional medium-term bonds issued by the Republic of France (Obligations Assimilables du Trésor – OAT), on 11 March 2013. Together with the
