GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc (NYSE: GFIG) and QUICK Corp have signed an agreement whereby GFI will supply QUICK with credit derivatives market data as of 23 April, 2012.   GFI Group, via its GFI Market Data division, has supplied QUICK with FX options market data and has been doing so since October 2005.   Gakuji Takahashi, Executive General Manager of QUICK Corp, says, “QUICK is very pleased to enter into this new agreement which will allow us to supply our customers with GFI credit derivatives market data. GFI Group covers a broad range of credit

Eurex Clearing and Pirum Systems announced have entered into a Connectivity Agreement to facilitate access to Eurex Clearing’s upcoming CCP service for securities lending. Pirum Systems is an acknowledged market leader in automating post-trade processes for the securities finance industry. The direct connectivity between Eurex Clearing and Pirum’s automation platform allows market participants to make use of their existing Pirum interfaces to feed bilaterally agreed transactions to Eurex Clearing for CCP novation and downstream processing. “We are very pleased to work with Pirum in our effort to bring the safety and efficiency of Eurex Clearing’s CCP services to the securities

Citi has been awarded a mandate from Guggenheim Investment Advisory, a division of Guggenheim Partners, to provide a complete suite of services including middle office, fund administration and custody for Guggenheim’s hedge fund investment platform. "We are pleased to be working with Citi because of their deep understanding of our business and robust technology that offers us customised end-to-end solutions to our unique middle office, administration and custodial needs," says Dina DiLorenzo, Managing Director, Guggenheim Investment Advisory. As investment managers worldwide launch new funds and accelerate the growth of their business, Citi helps them extend and enhance their operational capabilities

Trient Asset Management AS (Trient), headquartered in Oslo, Norway and Tiger Management LLC (Tiger), headquartered in New York City, have announced a strategic partnership to focus on investing in a global macro strategy. Trient is a new investment company, whose founding partners include Knut Kjaer and Dag Lotveit. Each previously played a significant role in the formation and operation of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which was established in 1997 to manage the Norwegian Government Pension Fund and Norway’s foreign reserves. Kjaer served as NBIM’s founding Chief Executive Officer (1997-2008). With assets of approximately USD600 billion, NBIM manages one of

Paladyne Systems has teamed up with Advise Technologies LLC, a regulatory reporting solutions provider, to specifically support Form PF requirements. Paladyne Systems has integrated the Advise Technologies solution with the Paladyne Suite of data collection and data management products to enable fund managers and service providers to streamline their Form PF processes. The combined solution is hosted in Paladyne’s SAS-70 certified data centres to provide a seamless enterprise-wide platform and comprehensive toolset for collecting, normalising and aggregating data from all internal and external sources required to complete Form PF. This integration allows for a rapid on-boarding process to support the