Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has partnered with CoinMarketCap to provide cryptocurrency data via Vela’s Market Data Feed service, SuperFeed. The partnership will provide Vela’s institutional client base with normalised
Newedge, a multi-asset clearing and brokerage firm, has executed and centrally cleared over USD2bn in client interest rate swaps on the Eris Exchange platform, an exempt board of trade under CFTC regulation, with clearing services provided by CME Clearing. Newedge
Emerging markets hedge funds posted strong gains to conclude 2012, which continued through early 2013, as stimulus measures in developed markets contributed to EM currency and equity market gains. The HFRX Multi-Emerging Markets Index gained 13.1 per cent for 2012,
Hedge funds, as measured by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index, finished January up 2.07 per cent, with nine out of 10 strategies in positive territory. In total, the industry saw estimated outflows of approximately USD9.3bn in January,
ICAP has launched i-Swap, its electronic interest rate derivative platform in the US for trading of US Dollar interest rate swaps (IRS). Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan are supporting i-Swap by providing streaming prices. An
Pine River Capital Management has deployed its Flex Trade Systems’ FlexTRADER EMS to facilitate trading for equities, FX and listed derivatives. “In this business, one has to continue to innovate or die,” says Scott Reinhart, head of Pine River Capital
The turnover of investment certificates and leverage products traded on the European stock exchanges in the fourth quarter of 2012 was EUR20.7bn, or 13.4 per cent lower than in the third quarter of the year. In year-on-year terms, the decline
QuantHouse, S&P Capital IQ’s real time operation, has partnered with the European arm of Russian financial institution BCS Financial Group to launch low latency market data for MICEX-RTS – Russia’s main equity market. In addition, BCS is leveraging its trading
In this paper, EDHEC emphasizes the need for the hedge fund industry to adopt a
A number of US and Canadian portfolio managers are integrating equity derivatives as cash alternatives, going beyond their more accustomed use of these products as instrumen
