Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has appointed an Lyons as Vice President of Business Development. Lyons will be responsible for driving growth for Drawbridge’s award-winning software and
Cosmos Technologies, the product division of Indus Valley Partners, has added Cosmos Price Master, to its middle office technology offering for the alternative investment industry. Pricing a hedge fund portfolio often poses serious challenges to many hedge funds. Reliance on
Irish start-up, Fund Recs, a developer of cloud-based reconciliation software to global fund administrators to to provide trade processing solutions for Capita Asset Services fund business in Ireland. Fund Recs software will be used to automatically capture trades from Fund
Varonis Systems is to supply Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, with a platform to monitor, manage and capture unstructured data in the Abacus private cloud. Through this new relationship Abacus
Eze Software Group has released a new version of RealTick EMS, its multi-broker, cross-asset electronic execution platform. Version 11.3 provides enhanced execution management workflow and new trade performance capabilities. RealTick EMS 11.3 delivers an advanced feature set that enables
ConvergEx Group, a provider of global brokerage and trading-related services, has launched a service to help hedge funds and mutual fund companies manage liquid alternatives. Liquid alternatives are investment products that feature an alternative strategy that has been packaged into
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has launched the CBOE Mobile options application for iPhone and iPad users. The app features a variety of basic to advanced educational courses specifically developed for mobile application by The Options Institute, CBOE's educational
By Gene Ekster – Some historians note that in the 50’s Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, would get into his silver 75hp two-seater airplane and take to the skies to count cars in parking lots with the aim of
Hedge360’s Risk Reporting Service, as part of the platform’s managed service offering, equips managers with the tools needed to manage and effectively report risk to an institutional standard. Laurence Wormald identifies this growing level of institutionalisation, coupled with regulatory requirements,
EY (Ernst & Young) last year published an operational efficiency survey and in it, they found that 40 per cent of respondents had already outsourced their middle office functions (26 per cent), or planned to over the next two years
