Scoach achieved a trading volume of EUR62 billion in Zurich and Frankfurt in 2011, making it Europe’s number 1. Its total offering of over 800,000 tradable products is actually the largest in the world. Turnover in Frankfurt was EUR19.6 billion
Gnip, a provider of public social media data for enterprise applications, has launched Gnip MarketStream, a product designed to incorporate the most relevant social media data streams into a single solution for hedge funds and high-frequency traders Gnip also announced
Estera, a provider of funds, corporate and trust services, has moved to its new, state of the art offices in Guernsey. It will see the firm’s fund administration, accounting and reporting services, as well as their corporate and trust services
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has release of Hazeltree Securities Finance Version 7, a comprehensive portfolio finance solution integrated with new market coloru, benchmark and intra-day rates, and utilisation trends. Hazeltree Securities Finance Version 7 enables
Sciens Alternative Investments has launched the Sciens Managed Account Risk Technologies (SMART), an interactive risk analytics and portfolio construction engine that enables investors to evaluate their hedge fund portfolios and aggregated fund exposures on Sciens Managed Account Platform (MAP). John
NYSE Liffe’s Robusta Coffee and Cocoa Futures contracts will be added to the Rogers International Commodity Index (RICI) for the first time. The changes will be implemented during the January roll period, at the end of January 2013. These new
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC), the Australian independent academic centre for capital market research, has shown that there is no link between high-frequency trading (HFT) and market manipulation, based on a new report using mathematical models for market abuse.
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the crypto-asset industry, has launched with the support of a USD6 million se round led by Distributed Global, Digital Currency Group, Morgan Creek, Galaxy Digital, Jump Capital, CMT Digital,
The industry decision to close the US markets for two trading days due to Hurricane Sandy resulted in a nine per cent decrease in the number of trading days in October 2012 for NYSE Euronext’s US cash equity and equity
One-year-old startup the Diamond Standard Co has launched the world’s first fungible diamond commodity product – a universal asset to secure any digital transaction. “Diamonds are a valuable natural resource, but unusable by institutional investors. Unlike gold and platinum, each
