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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
BTIG has appointed Stefanie Gianakis as Director of Recruitment based in New York. In this new role, she will be responsible for staffing new and established business units across BTIG’s product lines.
“With more than 20 years of recruiting experience at investment banks and hedge funds, Stefanie is uniquely qualified to help advance BTIG’s global hiring initiatives,” says Scott Kovalik, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BTIG. “She will drive our hiring strategy and tap into new sources of talent for our firm to effectively grow headcount and staff new ventures. Stefanie’s extensive experience managing the recruitment process for candidates across
The Maples Group, a service provider offering clients a range of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services, has made a number of strategic hires to its team in the Cayman Islands.
Luana Guilfoyle, Nicolas Rogivue, Sonja Salmon, Nadish Seebaluck, and Linval Stewart have joined as Vice Presidents within the Maples Group’s fiduciary services team to provide specialist services to a broad range of structured finance transactions and special purpose vehicles.
With no sign of any slowdown in the pace of regulatory change and compliance obligations continuing to grow, it has become critical for
Third party funds are the first port of call for advisers when seeking exposure to alternative assets on behalf of their clients, according to new research by Seneca Investment Managers, a boutique Multi-Asset Value investment specialist.
When asked how they plan on getting exposure to alternative assets on behalf of clients, the most popular route for advisers (56 per cent) is through third-party multi-asset funds. Indirect investment follows (eg indexes, listed funds like private equity, REITs and property trusts), with nearly half (49 per cent) of advisers open to this route to market. Just 1 per cent of advisers didn’t
French asset manager Axiom Alternative Investments has appointed Gilles Frisch as Senior Portfolio Manager for its new UCITS format, long-short credit fund.
Frisch brings over 26 years’ experience in the investment management industry, having most recently held the role of Head of High Yield at Swiss Life Asset Management since 2010. He began his career in 1993 as a quantitative analyst at both Société Générale and Paribas Capital Markets before joining Transoptions Finance as an exotic options trader. In 1996, Gilles joined Dexia Asset Management, where he held the position of Alternative Portfolio Manager prior to his appointment as Senior
Natixis Investment Managers has selected ALPIMA for web-based portfolio design, optimisation and visualisation within its Solutions group.
Offered as an enhanced version of its cloud-based enterprise service, the ALPIMA platform will be delivered on a white-label basis and configured specifically to meet Natixis Investment Managers requirements.
Pierre Mendelsohn (pictured), ALPIMA’s Founder and CEO, says: “We are delighted to work closely with the Natixis Investment Managers team. Their forward-thinking approach, solutions mindset and deep derivatives expertise are second to none. We are proud to help Natixis Investment Managers accelerate the digitisation of their business and deliver on their client-centric vision.”
