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LiquidityBook, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has reported record. revenues in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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Broadridge Financial Solutions, in partnership with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has begun development to support its role as an Approved SFT Submitter as it prepares for the launch of the new Securities Financing Transaction (SFT) Clearing service.
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The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and its clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) have successfully launched new After-Market contracts in Belgium and in the Netherlands.
These new offerings enable market participants to trade local hourly and 15 minute contracts even after delivery, until 12:30 pm CET for the Belgian market, and until 8:30 am on the day after delivery CET on the Dutch market. 21 members have registered for trading on the After-Market.
“After-Market contracts enable the adjustment of physical positions of our customers in the ex-post timeframe. By balancing their positions even after delivery, when all the final
Digital Vega, an FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, and Spark Systems, a Singapore based builder of low latency FX trading platforms, have formed strategic partnership to offer clients a technology platform for trading the full suite of FX products: Options, Spot, Forwards, Swaps and NDF’s.
The partnership between Digital Vega and Spark Systems is in response to demand from a broad group of buy- and sell-side users who are looking to access the market using complementary FX trading technology solutions. The combination of Digital Vega’s experience in developing FX Options technology with Spark Systems’
Alpha News Stream (ANS), a cloud-delivered, highly customisable API newsfeed of financial headlines, has launched a website portal where investing, fintech, corporate and other organisations can easily engage the service.
The ANS API curates English-language company and financial headlines from over 350 web news sources worldwide, via its public RSS feeds and the ANS search engine, adding useful metadata before delivering from the Amazon AWS cloud.
Companies covered include those in all sectors of the NASDAQ, NYSE, TSX exchanges and the FT 100. The feed also includes North America press releases from Business Wire, PR Newswire, CNW Group, Globe Newswire
FXSpotStream (FSS) is adding functionality to support FX Algos and Allocations over its API.
Market intelligence specialist Thomas Murray has launched Thomas Murray Digital, a new service that will provide risk assessments of digital asset market infrastructural entities – including exchanges and custodians – whose scrutiny, to-date, has often been unstandardised, ineffectual or simply non-existent.
The assessments, a first for the growing asset class, will inform and enable funds to evaluate, select and monitor the entities that support this new asset class – providing confidence that their assets will be adequately serviced and safeguarded.
Thomas Murray Digital, a subsidiary of Thomas Murray, has been launched in partnership with Alphaplate, a crypto market-maker and proprietary
CIFC Asset Management (CIFC), a USD30 billion alternative credit specialist serving institutional investors globally, has appointed Rebecca Levy as a Managing Director in its Investor Solutions Group.
Most recently, Levy served as a Senior Portfolio Advisor at Aksia LLC. In this new role, Levy will strengthen CIFC’s Investor Solutions Group as the firm continues to scale its business, create tailored solutions for clients, and develop new institutional relationships. Based in New York, Levy reports to Jim Boothby, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Business Development.
“We are pleased to welcome Rebecca to CIFC. Her expertise in portfolio construction and expansive
Fund Recs’ Velocity platform is now being used to automate the reconciliation between Investment Managers accounting records and Trade Repositories to support EMIR regulatory requirements.
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Kevin Lawi has joined Credit Suisse Asset Management’s direct lending team within the Credit Investments Group as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in Private Credit, and will serve as head of origination.
Lawi joins CSAM from the private credit business of PSP, one of Canada’s largest pension funds, where he served as a Senior Director responsible for origination and underwriting and led the industrials and FIG industry verticals.
In his new role, he will focus on originating transactions across the capital structure, including direct first lien, unitranche, second lien and preferred equity financings.
Lawi will look to work with
