Up until recently, machine intelligence could only be used by large sell-side institutions and sophisticated quantitative trading groups to improve how they operated in the marketplace. But as technology advances continue to push the depth and breadth of machine learning
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, has enhanced its Abacus Client Portal, which gives asset managers greater control of and transparency into their AbacusFLEX cloud services. The enhancements include two new modules giving
Independent credit provider InPark Square Capital (Park Square) has gone live on IHS Markit’s order management and portfolio modelling system, thinkFolio. The implementation delivers operational efficiencies for Park Square’s front and middle office functions, with thinkFolio seamlessly integrating with the
FinTech company Red Deer and TheySay, a text analytics company created by computational linguists from the University of Oxford specialising in sentiment analysis and emotional AI, are to collaborate on deep text analytics to automatically connect, contextualise and analyse research,
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB), the standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry, has held its first table top cyber-attack simulation for hedge fund managers in London. The HFSB is custodian of the Hedge Fund Standards, and is supported
Coinsilium Group Limited, an accelerator that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HyperChain Capital a hedge fund focused on investing in Blockchain companies. Under the terms of the
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider, and enterprise data management (EDM) solutions specialist GoldenSource, are partnering to offer a fully managed solution to capital markets clients seeking to improve their (EDM) capabilities. The new combined solution has already
Institutionalisation of the hedge fund industry continues apace. According to Credit Suisse’s mid-year Hedge Fund Investor Sentiment Survey, 93 per cent of institutional investors plan to maintain or increase their allocations to the sector in the second half of this
Hedgeweek Q&A with Mark Coriaty, Chief Strategy Officer, Eze Castle Integration HW: Talk about the advancement and evolution of cloud services in recent years and how we’ve ended up where we are. MC: If you step back and look at
Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has successfully completion the first phase of its distributed market infrastructure proof-of-concept (PoC) to test the feasibility of using blockchain to develop a common global marketplace for the trading and settlement of mutual funds.
