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Hedge fund short sellers have rebounded with a GBP418 million (USD542.6 million) gain from negative bets against FTSE 100-listed companies – just a month after losing almost the same amount from wayward shorts in UK blue-chip stocks.
SmartStream Technologies, a financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions provider, has launched SmartStream Air version 2.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Maitland, a global corporate services and administration firm, has made two senior hires: Neil Montgomery as Senior Manager – Corporate Services Compliance; and Alun Josias as Head of Finance – Corporate and Manco Services.Montgomery’s appointment is a promotion from his previous role as Global Tax Reporting Manager at Maitland. In his new capacity, he will be responsible for the Compliance Function of the Corporate and Manco Services business unit, in addition to being the compliance country lead for the Corporate Services division in South Africa.
Josias will be responsible for the finance function of Maitland’s Corporate and Manco Services business
BTIG announced has appointed Daniel Ryan as a Managing Director in the firm’s Outsource Trading division. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions and services to the buy side, is seeing an accelerated adoption of a digital-first operating model among its client base of 140-plus global asset managers.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The Covid-19 crisis is sharpening the appetite among European investors for alternative investments such as real estate, private equity, venture capital, hedge strategies, precious metals, infrastructure debt, and currencies.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Truss Edge, a specialist technology and consulting business that supports the middle and back offices of fund managers, has made further improvements to its existing software architecture. The latest update for the company’s software for hedge fund and ETF middle and back office operations has been designed to help investment and risk teams by delivering a higher level of quality information.
Accuracy and timeliness of data are essential components of successful risk management in current fund management operations.
Jay Duffy, CEO of Truss Edge, says: “We have enhanced the speed and efficiency of our systems with this new release.
Electra Information Systems (Electra), a provider of post-trade solutions for the buy-side investment management industry, has released new audit and control workflows for its client fee billing solution. Electra Billing 6.0 helps chief financial officers (CFOs) reduce risk by increasing the accuracy and efficiency of approval workflows throughout vital steps in the fee billing lifecycle – from market value, fee calculations and schedules, to invoice formatting, distribution and centralised audit reporting.
Many investment management firms continue to use manual methods, spreadsheets, or multiple systems to track market values, client fee schedules and calculations. Lacking essential workflow and audit processes, these methods
Bitfinex, a digital tokens trading platform, has launched staking rewards for Cardano (ADA), the native token of Cardano, a decentralised platform offering a distinct approach to scaling and securing a blockchain network.ADA joins a growing portfolio of tokens available for staking on the Bitfinex platform, which includes EOS (EOS), Cosmos (ATOM), v.systems (VSYS) and Tezos (XTZ).
Designed to provide users with another avenue to increase the value of their holdings, staking will enable Bitfinex customers to earn rewards as high as 4.3 per cent per year by depositing and holding ADA tokens.
“We’re delighted to announce that Bitfinex customers will
The Power Spot Intraday market, as operated by EPEX SPOT, increased by 27 per cent in September to 9.1 TWh. The French market was the main growth driver and hit a new record on the Intraday with 943.2 GWh traded last month (previous record in January 2020: 933.2 GWh) while the Netherlands registered their second highest volume to date with 416.1 GWh.
On the European Power Derivatives segment, the Options market volumes rose significantly to 4.7 TWh, recording triple digit growth compared to the same period last year (September 2019: 537.7 GWh).
The Hungarian (+30 per cent), the Dutch (+92 per
