Equitivo, a full-service fintech consultancy, has launched in London and Manchester, providing a range of services dedicated to assisting new and growing fintech organisations in the UK and Europe. Founded by Andrew Holgate, the co-founder of one of Europe’s largest
Integral, a foreign exchange markets technology specialist for banks, brokers, and asset managers, has reported average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms of USD34.7 billion in January 2019. Though down slightly compared to the previous month, this represents an increase of 1
IndexIQ, a developer of index-based alternative investment solutions, has reported positive performance for six out of seven of its proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative beta indices. The IQ Hedge Global Macro Beta Index was the strongest performer
While hedge funds struggled in Q4, so did passive investments. Could higher volatility in 2019 help active stock pickers shine? The fourth quarter of 2018 culminated in a substantial market correction. Everywhere one looked, it was a sea of red.
Much is written about the operational challenges that hedge fund managers face today but when it comes to data collection – ie reference data, pricing, portfolio valuations – and trade execution or standardised reporting, service providers and investors have to contend
In 2018, there were over 1200 publicly disclosed security breaches globally with the number of exposed records more than doubling from 197.6 million in 2017 to 446.5 million last year* as reported by Fortune. The number and scale of attacks has
The amount of data is exponentially growing. A paper by IDC, Data Age 2025, said that 16.3 zettabytes of information was generated in 2017 (one zettabyte is 1 billion terabytes), and forecasted this amount would rise to as much as
Despite the undoubted uptake in cloud platforms by global hedge funds over the last few years, with much written on the scalability and cost benefits, the perception remains that cloud usage invites data security risks. This is not market ignorance.
Last week’s buy-side notional cleared on SwapClear is nearly double the amount of the clearing service’s previous industry record-breaking week, totalling USD233.4bn. Additionally, SwapClear hit its second trillion in cumulative buy-side notional cleared in only two months (USD2.016trn). SwapClear believes
Robotic process automation is accelerating productivity within the financial sector. Much of the recent progress that’s been made innovating artificial intelligence (AI) technology toward greater efficiency has been driven by the significant resource investments of fund administrators, such as U.S.
