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This year’s Hedgeweek LIVE Europe digital summit opened with a broad overview of the prevailing hedge fund industry landscape in 2020, exploring a range of themes including the shifting perception of hedge funds among investors, the impact of Covid-19 on market opportunities, the increased importance of ESG among both managers and allocators, and the start-up environment for fledgling funds.
CME Group has launched what it says is the industry’s first tool to compare FX listed futures and spot liquidity on one screen – FX Market Profile.The new tool, powered by Quant Analytics, a comprehensive FX analytics platform owned by CME Group, allows market participants to analyze trade flows and calculate execution efficiencies by benchmarking their performance against CME’s listed FX futures and EBS’s spot trading markets.
“Synchronising and displaying two of the largest primary FX markets side by side on a single platform highlights the complementary nature of the EBS spot and listed FX liquidity pools,” says Paul Houston,
Sanne, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has appointed Jan Barre as Director of Business Development.
Despite extreme levels of market volatility, increased trading volumes and disruptions to society due to Covid-19, alternative fund managers have persevered, and even exceeded, performance expectations from investors.Nonetheless, managers continue to face challenges in addressing important areas of focus, including environmental, social and governance (ESG) products, and diversity and inclusion (D&I), according to the 2020 EY Global Alternative Fund Survey.
In times of change, does accelerated adaptation present obstacles or opportunities? – the 14th annual survey (formerly the EY Global Hedge Fund Survey) – reveals that total allocations to alternative investments remain relatively unchanged; however, the competition between asset classes
QuantHouse, a global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, an algo trading platform and infrastructure products, has announced a global upgrade of all data centre backbones to 100G including the deployment of the low latency Arista Networks platform as part of their ongoing rollout of customer-focused enhancements.In April 2020, QuantHouse completed the first phase of their infrastructure process automation program demonstrating their commitment to delivering superior performance and resilience for their global client base. Today’s announcement builds upon the first phase ensuring increased bandwidth, improved legacy and enhanced fabric performance.
Emmanuel Carjat, Chief Operating Officer, QuantHouse,
SFOX, an independent crypto prime broker, providing global liquidity and best price execution from a single account, has appointed Shawn Egger as Head of Execution Services. In this role, Egger will be responsible for globally expanding the distribution of SFOX’s execution and liquidity services and managing the firm’s institutional client-facing business in digital assets for liquidity, trade execution and prime services.
Egger joins SFOX from Jefferies, where he was the Senior Vice President of FX Sales Trader and previously held the position of Head of FX Sales at Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe, and Head of FX Market Making
With certain aspects of the EU’s ongoing MiFID II review affected by the coronavirus pandemic, Hedgeweek explores how a fresh overhaul of the framework may further impact hedge fund operations, and why the Covid-19 crisis may provide an easing of the regulatory burden.
Texture Capital, an institutional marketplace for private capital, has been granted Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) membership approval to commence operations as a digital securities broker-dealer and operate an Alternative Trading System (ATS).
Helmed by capital markets and blockchain industry veterans, this important milestone will enable Texture to begin issuing, tokenising, and trading digital securities.
Texture Capital is a technology-driven marketplace focused on enabling institutions to more efficiently and directly participate in the private markets. Texture uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to streamline the current market structure for private placements.
“We are delighted to achieve this milestone, and excited
Amundi has completed the full integration of the Luxembourg-domiciled fund platforms of Goldman Sachs Fund Solutions & Origination, an activity of Goldman Sachs Global Markets Division (GSFSO).Amundi Luxembourg, one of Amundi’s four main hubs for fund hosting services meeting UCITS and AIFM directives, has become the “Management Company” of three Luxembourg systematic and alternative management Sicavs with total assets under management on behalf of GSFSO of EUR2.6 billion. Amundi manages, controls and supervises Luxembourg investment vehicles based on GSFSO’s systematic trading strategies. Amundi also provides a management service as well as the analysis and monitoring of the external managers present
Intercontinental Exchange has launched clearing for Credit Default Swap (CDS) Index Options, bringing greater capital efficiencies, price discovery and risk management to the CDS market. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
