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KRM22, a technology and software investment company that focuses on risk management for capital markets, has partnered with deltaconX, a provider of regulatory reporting services for European financial-, energy- and commodity trading organisations.
The deltaconX SaaS-based service, which will be available through KRM22’s Global Risk Platform, enables firms to meet regulatory reporting requirements including EMIR, FinfraG, SFTR, MiFIR and MiFID II, and REMIT. The application simplifies the reporting process through automation and dynamic error handling, minimising manual work and the likelihood of human error.
Saeed Patel, Director of Product Strategy at KRM22, says: “With a rise in the number
FIX Trading Community, a non-profit, industry-driven standards body for global financial trading, is too hold the FIX EMEA Trading Conference on 12 March 2020.
The event will be held in association with a number of Trade Associations for the second year running, including: the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the German Investment Funds Association (BVI), the European Debt Market Association (EDMA), the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), the European Venues and Intermediaries Association (EVIA), the Investment Association (IA), the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), and the Swedish Securities Dealers Association
Hong Kong is increasing its efforts to formally regulate cryptocurrency exchanges in the city.
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has released a newly drafted regulatory framework, which allows the securities watchdog to issue licenses to crypto trading platforms.
In 2018, the SFC announced a regulatory sandbox providing a confined environment for fintech companies to explore regulatory innovations and frameworks. At the latest HK FinTech Week, Ashley Alder, head of the SFC announced that the city’s securities watchdog has now established a new comprehensive set of regulations for cryptocurrency exchanges in Hong Kong.
The rules are focused on
Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialsing in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has launched DrawbridgeConnect-R, a Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) platform.
DrawbridgeConnect-R continuously analyses a firm’s vulnerabilities – rather than providing a mere point in time vulnerability assessment – and helps firms identify, prioritise and remediate organizational cybersecurity weaknesses that leave data at risk. Complementing Drawbridge Partners’ existing services offering, DrawbridgeConnect-R enables firms with limited in-house cybersecurity resources to manage both external and internal vulnerabilities associated with client networks.
With DrawbridgeConnect-R, companies are equipped with:
• Vulnerability Scanning: Ongoing
European equities clearing house EuroCCP is to begin clearing trades executed on Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (FWB), the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, from 11 November, 2019.
EuroCCP’s clearing services are now available on a preferred CCP basis for trades in cash equities and ETFs executed on Xetra for the first time.
EuroCCP has long advocated the benefits of open access and increased interoperability amongst European clearing houses. With the addition of FWB, EuroCCP has extended its clearing access to over 95 per cent of cash equity trades executed on organised markets in Europe.
Cécile Nagel, CEO, EuroCCP, says: “Open access and
Institutional investors face a number of pressures driven by regulation, the market environment, the global economy and their own internal policies. The rise of factor investing can help ease some of these burdens by introducing new levels of transparency and systematic portfolio construction which then allow for a better deployment of the available risk budget.
Factor investing is not new and has not been discovered recently, however changes in the way the returns generated are accessed can offer additional value and innovative benefits to investors. This has been driven by significant advances in technology, data gathering and analysis witnessed in
Next year marks the ninth edition of ABN AMRO Clearing’s Amsterdam Investor Forum, which promises to be as engaging as ever. As with prior events, the AIF 2020 will take place at ABN AMRO’s headquarters in Amsterdam but the date has been brought forward to 5 February.
Speaking with Hedgeweek, Delphine Amzallag (pictured), Global Head of Prime Services at ABN AMRO Clearing, says the focus this year has been to further broaden the scope of attending institutional investors and alternative asset managers, both in terms of type and geography.
“As with each year, we are hoping to diversify the perspectives available on
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform of EEX Group operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 212.0 TWh traded on the platform in October 2019, up to 12 per cent compared to 2018.
With 121.8 TWh, the spot segment reported a 15 per cent growth compared to 2018 (October 2018: 103.3 TWh) and a record month for the Austrian CEGH VTP, which traded 9.71 TWh in October 2019 (previous record in January 2019: 9.67 TWh).
A total of 90.2 TWh were traded on the futures segments, which represents a 9 per cent raise year-on-year (October 2018: 82.8 TWh).
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Match-Trade Technologies, a Forex and crypto turnkey technology provider. Has launched Match-Trader, 3in1, a trading platform for MT4/MT5.
The new platform offered to brokers consists of web, mobile and desktop applications which make it a universal tool. It was designed to work in MT4/5 environment as well as a stand-alone trading system with its own backend infrastructure. The developers made sure that each broker can easily add Match-Trader’s web and mobile components to its MetaTrader platform to boost clients’ trading experience.
Match-Trader platform can be purchased currently as an addition to the MT4/MT5 White Label, soon it will be available
A flurry of optimism meant investors hit the pause button on their flight from equity funds in October, according to the latest Fund Flow Index (FFI) from Calastone.
Investors also pulled back from bond funds for the first time since January. Despite, however, the change in sentiment, higher risk funds remained firmly out of favour.
The change in investor sentiment towards fixed-income funds was particularly marked. As a perceived relative safe haven, bond funds have benefited all year from investor concerns over Brexit and the global economy, attracting a net GBP4.2 billion of inflows between February and September. A jump in
