The Maples Group has appointed Hugo Lodge as a partner in its Regulatory & Compliance legal practice. Lodge joins the Group’s Cayman Islands office from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, where he led the new team responsible for the
Lugano-based alternative investment manager Insch Capital Management has set up a new financial services IT business in Sofia, Bulgaria, with staff previously employed by fund of hedge fun
RCM-X, the trading technology subsidiary of RCM Alternatives, is to incorporate and Social Market Analytics’ (SMA) Cryptocurrency Data Feed into the logic of its advanced order types and technologies. The SMA Cryptocurrency Sentiment Feed will offer traders a first-of-its-kind tool
The secondary market, where investors historically went to trade their illiquid holdings in hedge funds, private equity and other alternative investments, is increasingly a source of liquidity in normal times and not just an escape hatch for investors in duress,
Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank have built Europe’s largest fixed-income trading franchises, with each firm claiming more than 10 per cent of institutional trading volume captured acros
Dash Financial Technologies has added a new suite of real-time analytics, visualisation and reporting tools aimed at portfolio traders. The new tools are available natively in Dash360, the firm’s web-based platform that provides order-to-execution level transparency, detailing and visualising exchange
State Street Corporation is enhancing FX Connect, its FX execution venue, with new trading technology to provide a more agile and innovative platform for clients. “In today’s highly competitive environment where firms face increased complexity and regulatory requirements, it’s vital
Catena Technologies has completed early testing of its trade reporting platform with trade repository REGIS-TR for Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) reporting. The partnership between Catena and REGIS-TR will enable financial institutions to use these platforms together to automate SFTR
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM) has partnered with Russian analysts Evgeny Gavrilenkov and Alexander Kudrin, the founders of GKEM ANALYTICA, a macroeconomic research firm focused on macroeconomics and financial markets. GKEM ANALYTICA will collaborate with BCS GM’s award-winning analyst team
Tahoe City, California-based MVP Asset Management has appointed DB HedgeWorks Fund Services, which was acquired by Deutsche Bank in January, as the new administrator to the MVP Fund of Fun
