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CGS-CIMB Securities (CGS-CIMB) has launched a new full-service prime services platform designed to service the rapidly growing smaller funds sector, including hedge funds, family offices, proprietary traders, asset managers and broker dealers.
It extends CGS-CIMB’s prime services to smaller funds of up to USD50 million and provides them with services that are normally reserved for bigger funds. Drawing on the resources of CGS-CIMB’s global brokerage business, the service offers access to Asia’s growing markets with products including equities, fixed income, securities financing, exchange-listed futures, stock borrowing and lending, as well as custody, clearing and settlement solutions.
Flexible account structures
Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired ClearStructure Financial Technology, a global provider of portfolio management solutions for the private debt markets.
Broadridge’s SaaS technology currently powers more than 550 hedge funds, traditional asset managers and fund administrators with a complete front-to-back, multi-asset class solution that simplifies and improves firm trading and operations. As private markets continue to grow and present opportunities for asset managers to find alpha and differentiate themselves, the addition of ClearStructure’s private debt capabilities will create a differentiated solution in the market and enable Broadridge to serve new clients.
“ClearStructure’s component services enhance our existing multi-asset class,
Camilo Lyon has joined BTIG’s Research and Strategy division to launch coverage across the consumer sector, focusing on lifestyle and wellness brands.
He will be based in the firm’s New York office, and will report to David Lenchus, Director of Research at BTIG.
Lyon has more than 20 years of industry experience. He has spent the majority of his career covering the consumer sector inclusive of multi-national retail brands and emerging luxury, lifestyle, wellness and healthy living, fashion and beauty companies. Lyon has analysed companies within the sector for several global financial services firms. At BTIG, his coverage will focus
Analyst Hub, an independent research infrastructure platform company that provides talented sell-side analysts a path to owning their own enterprises, has added FFTT (Forest for the Trees) a boutique research and investment strategy firm that produces unique macroeconomic and thematic research, to its platform.
Founded in 2014, FFTT serves a customer base of institutional and high-net worth individual investors. FFTT aggregates large amounts of publicly available data from a wide variety of sources in a unique manner to identify developing economic bottlenecks and resulting investment opportunities. FFTT serves clients around the world with a focus on the United States and
iCapital Network is to create a customised technology platform for PIMCO, that will provide financial advisers and their high-net-worth clients access to PIMCO’s alternative strategies.
iCapital Network says the relationship will enable advisers to provide a best-in-class investor experience via enhanced access to PIMCO alternative strategies. iCapital’s technology automates the subscription process, provides transparency into each step of the investing process and seamlessly integrates performance and tax reporting for alternative investments in an end-to-end platform.
“We are excited to partner with iCapital and look forward to leveraging their capabilities as we continue our efforts to democratise alternative investments for qualified investors seeking additional sources
CFA UK’s Certificate in ESG Investing, the first qualification of its kind in the UK, will be available to investment professionals from December.
The Certificate has been introduced to meet the increased demand for ESG knowledge and skills in the investment sector and is already seeing high uptake.
In the UK, over 500 candidates are already signed up to complete the course; they will be able to take the exam from 2 December 2019.
The launch follows a pilot programme conducted in September 2019, which was designed to ensure that the training materials developed for the qualification were
McKay Brothers International (MBI) is now offering connectivity at the lowest known commercial latency between the Tokyo-CC2 data centre and trading centres in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The procured hybrid microwave/fibre service between the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) data centre and the @Tokyo-CC2 data centre takes less than 22.86 milliseconds (ms) round trip, the lowest known commercial latency. MBI’s service between the HKEx data centre and @Tokyo-CC2 delivers data in less than 39.83 milliseconds round trip, also the lowest known commercial latency. In addition, McKay recently improved the latency its hybrid microwave/fibre service between the Singapore Exchange and @Tokyo-CC2, which
Lyxor Asset Management has completed the integration of Commerzbank’s asset management activities and of its total EUR16 billion in assets under management, following the purchase of Commerzbank’s Equity Markets & Commodities business by its parent company Societe Generale Group in November 2018.
As part of this integration, Lyxor has opened its first asset management branch both in Germany and outside of France, which is called Lyxor International Asset Management SAS Deutschland (Lyxor Deutschland) and is based in Frankfurt am Main. The branch will be jointly managed by Guillaume de Martel and Thomas Timmermann who are appointed co-heads of Lyxor Deutschland.
KRM22, a specialist in Enterprise, Regulatory and Market Risk Management solutions for capital markets companies, has launched its Market Risk solution on its SaaS-based Global Risk Platform.
KRM22 says the Global Risk Platform creates significant cost savings for customers and allows Futures Clearing Merchants (FCM), asset managers, broker dealers and hedge funds to significantly enhance pre-trade, at-trade and post-trade risk management.
By leveraging KRM22’s “Global/Local” deployment architecture, market risk managers can calculate real-time pre-trade and at trade analytics by account and portfolio showing margin sensitivities, “Greek calculations”, NetLiq values and P&L performance with low latency and high performance. Sophisticated post-trade stressing for volatility and pricing are available on equities, futures, options and FX. Firm-wide, portfolio and account-based value at risk (VaR)
Dun & Bradstreet and Quantexa have announced a new partnership that aims to empower businesses to make better, context driven decisions using innovative data and analytics to provide a detailed picture of connected relationships.
Global commercial data & analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet, and Quantexa, a contextual decision intelligence software and solutions company, have joined forces to help identify and tackle financial crime by providing market-leading data and network analytics to help firms stay compliant in today’s regulatory environment.
By connecting Dun & Bradstreet’s rich corporate insights data with Quantexa’s contextual decision intelligence platform, the partnership will enable an enhanced
