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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
On-chain KYC specialist Blockpass has partnered with EasyFi Network – a scalable, open and inclusive Layer 2 DeFi lending protocol for digital assets, built on Matic Network.
The partnership features a powerful use case for on-chain KYC data via a network consisting of Blockpass, Chainlink, Matic and EasyFi, enabling the realisation of decentralised and compliant lending and borrowing of digital assets over public networks.
EasyFi is a protocol built to solve some of the inherent challenges faced by the first generation of DeFi solutions with respect to transaction speeds and costs which create a bottleneck when operating at scale. Its secure
TraditionDATA, the data arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition (Tradition), has partnered with Trad-X, Tradition’s joint venture with 13 of the world’s largest banks, and MTS, a leading electronic fixed income trading market in Europe, to create a unique new Asset Swap data service based on fully executable prices from these regulated trading platforms.
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Alter Domus, a leading provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, is to create 100 new jobs, substantially increasing headcount at its European Centre of Excellence in Cork.
IOWArocks, a global marketplace for data, tech, and services, has launched a new, single destination website under the IOWArocks umbrella brand showcasing: IOWAdata, the global data marketplace; IOWAtech for advanced technology solutions and IOWAserv for consultancy services to support the growing data community.
Additionally, MDX Technology (MDXT), which powers the IOWArocks global data marketplace, has been renamed IOWAtech, with its established Connect product suite continuing to support new and existing customers.
The new IOWArocks website is a single access, highly disruptive capability which now serves its entire user community. These include: Data consumers looking to streamline business operations and achieve
BMLL and WBR Insights have published new buyside research exploring how market participants use Level 3 data and analytics in their daily trading decisions to uncover predictive signals for algorithmic performance.
The Whitepaper “Buy-side usage of Level 3 data analytics for algorithmic performance” found that high quality data has become a commonly utilised commodity by most market participants who manage their AUM quantitatively; 74 per cent of respondents said they use Level 3 data in their research program to improve alpha generation and mitigate risk.
It is clear that data and analytics play an increasingly important role in the workflows
Blackstone – the world’s largest alternative investment manager – has seen its group-wide assets increase by 8 per cent, though its hedge fund capital fell slightly last year, despite positive performance amid “significantly less volatility than the broader markets”.
The group, which runs a range of hedge fund, private equity, credit, real estate, and alternative products, saw its total assets under management swell to USD618.6 billion in 2020 – an 8 per cent year-on-year increase from 2019’s total of USD571.1 billion, with Q4 2020 inflows numbering USD32.3 billion.
The group had deployed some USD293.6 billion of investable capital at quarter-end,
Bit.com, a secure derivatives exchange launched by Matrixport, has completed its integration with Copper ClearLoop, a platform provided by London-based digital asset custodian Copper.co, which facilitates instant, off-exchange cryptocurrency settlements.
Meketa Investment Group (Meketa), a global investment consulting and fiduciary management (OCIO) firm, has launched a new initiative to more thoroughly evaluate and rate asset managers’ efforts to ensure diversity and inclusion within their organisations.
