Mini primes and those looking to establish new prime brokerage businesses are currently a big focus for SS&C Advent, according to Roger Woolman, Business Development Director, Asset Management & Alternatives. Over the years the firm has built long-running relationships with
BATS Global Markets’ pan-European trade reporting service, BXTR, became the industry leader in its first month of operation, while BATS Chi-X Europe remained Europe’s largest stock market in November. BATS also continues progress towards approval and closing of the merger
The last thing any hedge fund manager wants is to be off-boarded by a Prime Broker. It can be a destabilising and unsettling experience, potentially leading to a loss of confidence among investors. It is vital, therefore, to find the
CMC Markets Institutional – a provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions – has launched a new Prime Derivatives trading platform providing professional individual and institutional clients with access to trade global single stock CFDs. Accessing Prime Brokerage services
The Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) says it is particularly encouraged by the continuous trend of hedging long-term positions such as PPAs via EEX and its clearing house ECC. EEX’s concept of long-term hedging with standard futures
Outsourced trading solutions firm Tourmaline Partners has added an “execution dashboard” to its client website to provide its buy-side clients with greater transparency into their total broker research spend. Now, in addition to providing comprehensive trade detail and aggregated
The Derivatives Service Bureau, founded by the Association of Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) for OTC Derivatives, is looking for broader industry representation within the DSB’s Product Committee, and is
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has added key Asia Pacific (APAC) exchanges to SuperFeed, its normalised Market Data Feed. The initial implementation will deliver APAC exchange data to existing locations
‘Wild West’ crypto-assets should be regulated according to the UK Treasury Committee which has published a unanimously-agreed report on crypto-assets for its Digital Currencies inquiry. The report finds that problems include volatile prices, hacking vulnerabilities, minimal consumer protection, and anonymity
Post-financial crisis regulatory changes in derivatives trading have forced change on how UK pension funds and large asset managers conduct their business, according to Maxime Jeanniard du Dot, the COO of derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma. The regulatory change means that
