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The C|T Group, an international strategic advisory and campaigns company, has launched C|T Solutions and Private Advisory (C|T SPA). From its base in London, C|T SPA will focus on providing actionable intelligence, investigative expertise, financial insight and strategic counsel both to private and corporate clients and to law firms and their clients around the world. The new firm will help clients to manage complex risk, protect their assets and preserve their reputations. C|T SPA will offer clients unique, implementable solutions to solve complex and often seemingly intractable problems to achieve their desired outcome.
The company has been formed by a merger of
Business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics specialist Velcimetrics, has launched a new approach to monitoring and analytics of 100Gbps network feeds.
Data management and analytics solutions provider, Asset Control, has appointed a new director, Stef Nielen, to focus on the firm’s growing buy-side customer base.
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Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has appointed former Finastra Head of UK Hedge Funds and Overall Buy-side for the Nordics, Nick Palmer, to its management team. Palmer joins Options as a Sales Director where he will be responsible for business development and sales across Managed Colocation, Managed Applications and Managed Platform products. He brings with him over a decade of experience in financial technology, having previously been involved with Bloomberg, Clearwater Analytics and Finastra, with specialist expertise in Enterprise Front to Back systems and digital transformation.
During his time at Finastra, Palmer
Appital, the Equity Capital Marketplace, has made two strategic appointments to its management team. Brian Guckian will join as Chief Business Development Officer and Philipp Eberle as Head of Strategy; both will support Appital’s mission to bring technological innovation and automation to equity capital markets. Appital aims to ‘unlock and uncover’ liquidity for investors, enabling buy-side firms to execute large volumes, often in excess of five days of Average Day Volume (ADV), with minimal market impact or risk of price erosion.
Guckian is an experienced Head of Equities with over 25 years experience working in the financial services industry. He was
European traders are backing a 90-minute reduction in trading hours in a bid to concentrate liquidity creating more efficient markets.
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The latest data from FXLIQUIDITY, provided by Mosaic Smart Data, CLS and MUFG, reveals that FX volumes dropped by between 10 and 25 per cent across all currency groups between 22 and 26 June.
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The UK Financial conduct has taken what Capco managing principal Reuben Karuna-Nidhi describes as the first positive steps in the long journey toward crypto asset regulation.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
AcadiaSoft, a provider of risk and collateral management services for the non-cleared derivatives community, has partnered with derivatives analytics firm OpenGamma to simplify the workflow for compliance of Phases 5 and 6 of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR). The partnership will integrate AcadiaSoft’s initial margin calculation and reconciliation service with OpenGamma’s risk sensitivities generation service, both critical steps in the workflow for UMR compliance.
“As we continue to work across the industry to make UMR compliance less burdensome for Phase 5 and 6 clients, this partnership with OpenGamma is a natural fit,” AcadiaSoft Chief Product Officer Fred Dassori says. “Bringing OpenGamma
Hedge funds that bet against Wirecard, the German e-payments firm which last week collapsed amid an apparent widespread EUR1.9 billion fraud, showed “bravery and belief” and their actions have ultimately been vindicated, according to Jack Inglis, CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association.
Using “forensic analysis”, hedge funds knew something was amiss in the scandal-hit DAX 30-listed firm a while ago, Inglis said, noting how the first queries into the company’s accounting stretch back to 2014 when short positions began to emerge.
“Yet the share price still went up. It takes bravery and belief to commit to short positions but
