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State Street Corporation has appointed Vincent Georgel-O’Reilly as regional segment head for alternatives in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
In this new role, O’Reilly covers hedge funds and private markets and is responsible for advancing the investment services strategic direction, product structuring, sales and operations in EMEA. He reports to Paul Fleming, global head of alternatives and Joerg Ambrosius, chief executive officer of EMEA.
State Street has a strong history of innovation in the alternatives industry and is committed to supporting alternatives clients with best-in-class expertise, processes and technology. O’Reilly will work closely with Fleming and Ambrosius, to
ICA, a Paris-based fintech that helps help banks, financial institutions, hedge funds and asset managers tackle their data challenges, at scale, has rebranded as Opensee.
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BTON Financial, an independent provider of broker-neutral dealing desk technology for investment managers, has appointed electronic trading expert, Ray Tierney, as a Non-Executive Director.
Tierney will play a key role in shaping the direction of the company and expanding BTON Financial’s US footprint and plans to bring its technology and data-driven dealing desk solution to the global investment management community en masse.
Investment managers are increasingly looking to electronification and workflow automation to generate returns for end investors, while meeting increasing regulatory obligations and dealing with profit margin compression. By using BTON Financial’s independent, broker-neutral insourced dealing desk technology, investment
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for March 2021 measured 2.49 per cent, up from 2.37 per cent in February.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator of 2.49 per cent for March 2021 reflects a favourable level of redemptions compared to the 3.11 per cent reported for March 2020, as well as compared to longer-term averages,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies.
“In fact, the 2.49 per cent level of redemptions for March 2021 marks the ninth consecutive month of improved year-over-year comparisons. The strong trend in hedge fund asset retention observed throughout the past year remains firmly
Two Sigma has appointed Tom Hill to the newly created role of Chairman of Two Sigma’s private investment business, which includes Two Sigma Impact, Two Sigma Ventures and Sightway Capital.
The Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) has selected Refinitiv, an LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) business, to publish its recommended spread adjustments and spread-adjusted rates for cash products, following a robust request for proposals (RFP) process.
The world’s first causal AI platform, created by deep-tech scaleup causaLens, is being leveraged by financial services companies, including Aviva Investors, 2IQ, TIAA, CLS Group and a raft of prominent hedge funds), to automatically extract valuable causal insights from financial data and therefore boost the profitability of their trading strategies.
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Founded in 2015 by David Meneret (above left), a former Macquarie senior portfolio manager and structured credit specialist of almost 20 years, New York-based credit hedge fund Mill Hill Capital believes the current market landscape offers fertile ground for its market neutral, relative value investment style.
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of end-to-end technology solutions, has become a Sponsoring Partner of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
AIMA represents more than 2,000 corporate members in 60-plus countries, collectively managing in excess of USD2 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets. The organisation provides leadership in industry initiatives including advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programs and sound practice guides.
The partnership enables AIMA’s member firms to take advantage of Eze Castle Integration’s award-winning managed services. This includes complete cloud solutions, IT, cybersecurity and digital services, designed specifically for the financial industry and relied upon by
Blockchain platform Telos has launched of TSwaps, its new full-featured DeFi platform.
The TSwaps platform allows for direct swaps of both telos tokens and low-slippage USD stablecoins, and includes yield farming liquidity pools, transaction mining rewards and a cross-chain token bridge between Telos and EOS with the telos to bitcoin and ethereum bridges to be integrated soon.
The TSwaps platform has a simple swap interface to allow for the creation of liquidity pools to exchange between a number of Telos-based tokens against one another, plus pegged versions of BTC, ETH, EOS, and USD. Users will be shown an estimated
