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Options Technology, a provider of Capital Markets services, backed by Abry Partners, is to acquire ACTIV Financial. The financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
As a long-term provider of global capital markets services including cloud-enabled managed solutions, global trading infrastructure and telemetry analytics services, this deal reinforces Options’ commitment to continually add value and optimise their offering to capital markets firms.
ACTIV Financial is a global provider of real-time, delayed, historical and enriched multi-asset financial market data and offer a wide range of industry-leading solutions in a true Enterprise data platform. The combination of Options’ core services
Quantitative hedge fund and CTA pioneer Aspect Capital has unveiled a new systematic momentum-based investment strategy focused on Chinese financial and commodities futures, tapping into the expanding global institutional investor appetite for opportunities there.
The Aspect China Diversified Fund – which launches with more than USD100 million in external capital – uses the London-based firm’s systematic medium-term trend-following models to trade more than 40 onshore Chinese futures markets spanning six asset classes: agriculturals, bonds, energies, industrials, metals and stock indices.
The strategy brings the firm’s expertise in systematic investment to global investors who are keen to tap into the opportunities
Gadze Finance has launched a DeFi focused crypto fund with an initial USD25 million under management, growing to USD100 million over the coming six months.
The new fintech startup launched by Mike Silagadze and Andrew McGrath aims to democratize access to safe crypto investing strategies. Gadze Finance is based and operated in Cayman Islands.
Crypto is a USD2 trillion asset class, and DeFi (decentralised finance) is a rapidly growing USD100 billion segment where quick and efficient smart contracts, rather than central financial intermediaries, power financial transactions. Productive assets that are being built on DeFi that span finance, gaming, and art.
Optiver, a global market maker, has launched its corporate strategic investment initiative, Optiver Principal Strategic Investments (PSI).
For more than 35 years, Optiver has been committed to improving global financial markets at every stage, for all parties involved. Through Optiver PSI, the firm seeks to build upon this mission by partnering with entrepreneurs shaping the financial markets of the future.
Historically, Optiver has been focused on its core activity of making markets in listed derivatives and equities. Through pricing, execution and risk management, the firm’s 1300+ employees have remained steadfast in their shared commitment to improving the market. In
The Citco group of companies (Citco) has completed the migration of USD1 trillion worth of assets under administration (AUA) onto the newest version of Æxeo running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), in one of the largest accounting transitions in history, and the largest within the alternative investment sector.
Citco, the global asset servicer to the alternative investment industry, has moved all its clients using Æxeo – its straight-through, proprietary front-to-back office solution – from its physical data centers to AWS over the past 18 months.
The move means all of Citco’s hedge fund and hybrid clients now have a secure
VTB Group is launching a new business line that will focus on climate finance and carbon market operations both in Russia and internationally.
Vladimir Litvak, who has over 25 years’ of experience in green financing and carbon trading markets, will head up the newly formed division.
This business line will build on VTB Group’s ability to finance major projects and expertise in commodity markets with a focus on the following areas:
• Raising financing in Russian and international markets for Russian companies to execute ESG projects aimed at reducing emissions, providing greenhouse gas capture and storage, introducing low-carbon
Hedge funds’ overall momentum in 2021 has been halted, with managers across a range of strategy classes left counting the cost of September’s bumpy equity and credit market reversal, new industry data published this week shows.
Livermore Investments Group, a leading Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLO) equity anchor investor in over USD13 billion of new issue CLO transactions, has anchored the majority equity stake in Ares 61 – Ares Managements’ latest USD500 million CLO which closed on 30 September 2021.
The transaction, arranged by Nomura Securities, priced with a competitive weighted average cost of debt of Libor + 1.61 per cent. The CLO has a five-year reinvestment period and will be managed by Ares Management, one of the largest and most experienced CLO managers, with over USD28 billion of CLO AUM. Livermore’s controlling equity also comes with
Exberry, an exchange technology pioneer, is providing its “Marketplace as a Service” technology at the heart of ProMEX, the digital marketplace for physical commodities.
The new technology partnership will enable ProMEX to create new products and markets at speed, and securely offer trading in a wide variety of commodities in new ways.
ProMEX delivers an end to end digital experience in physical commodity trading. The platform provides direct, real-time trading without intermediaries or clearing houses and eliminates settlement risk for its users. This shortened settlement cycle also reduces counterparty risk. Exberry’s matching engine is central to this process.
The
Man Group’s funds under management reached a new high of USD139.5 billion during the third quarter, fueled by positive inflows and strong investment performance, with its hedge fund and alternative strategies driving growth.
