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Acuity Trading is expanding its team with the appointment of Vladislav Novopoltsev as a Product Manager and Gustavo Avalos as a Data Scientist. As a Product Manager Novopoltsev will be based in Acuity’s Spanish office in Barcelona where he will utilise his previous experience of financial newswires, machine learning algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to optimise the performance of Acuity’s suite of products while ensuring the company’s global clients can access both excellent products and exceptional customer service.
“Acuity Trading’s goal is to solve some unique problems for the customers (be it brokers, investors, or market professionals) using AI technology
SoftSolutions, a high performance multi-market fixed income trading technology provider, has launched the next generation of its nexRates solution, a fully integrated electronic trading as a service platform for secondary markets. nexRates can now be delivered over the cloud in addition to the well-established nexRates on-premise solution.
The industry is confronted with major challenges ranging from margin pressure, capacity for handling market volatility and the need for trading teams to work seamlessly from multiple locations. In response, the nexRates cloud-hosted solution presents fixed income traders with greater accessibility to fully-featured trading platforms, ensuring business continuity and resilience, in a cost-effective way.
This is the second in a series of four articles from the DMS Client Solutions Team, bringing you a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by the shifting European regulatory landscape. In last week’s article Daniel Forbes explored Why Cross-Border Fund Domiciles are Transforming into Fund Management Hubs. This week Pádraic Durkan continues this theme by looking at the evolving landscape in Ireland for fund management…
The second panel of this year’s HedgeweekLIVE Europe summit focused on how evolving trends in outsourcing are changing hedge funds’ operating models.
As the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, ethereum witnessed impressive growth in 2020. Since the beginning of the year, the ctyptocurrency’s price price surged by a remarkable 230 per cent, drawing more and more attention from investors in times of economic uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.According to data presented by AksjeBloggen.com, ethereum was the most traded cryptocurrency in the third quarter of 2020, with 1.1 million average daily transactions, 3.5 times more than bitcoin.
As the world’s leading cryptocurrency, bitcoin witnessed over 319,000 average daily transactions between June and September, revealed the CoinMetrics data. Other leading cryptocurrencies saw less than a
Crux Informatics (Crux) has partnered with Google Cloud to make it easier for Crux’s data suppliers to provide their data to customers. The Crux data catalog, which comprises thousands of datasets from over 100 traditional, alternative, and public data suppliers, will facilitate easier and faster data delivery to joint customers at no incremental charge.
Crux will enable delivery of authorised data sets directly into each client’s Google BigQuery environment, and will provide 24×7 monitoring, support and maintenance of all data pipelines into the clients’ Google Cloud environments.
Data provisioned via Crux will be clean, actionable and analytics ready, enabling Google Cloud
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
