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Jersey Finance has formally opened its new office in New York as the jurisdiction looks to enhance its visibility in the US and promote its proposition as a gateway to Europe for US alternative fund managers.
The office was officially launched at an event held at The Peninsula New York on 16 October, attended by around 100 lawyers, intermediaries and other US fund professionals, who heard from Senator Ian Gorst, Minister for External Relations for the Government of Jersey, and Joe Moynihan, CEO of Jersey Finance, about Jersey’s growing ties with the US.
The launch of the office comes
Thornburg Investment Management (Thornberg), a global investment firm that oversees USD43 billion in assets, has appointed Ben Kirby and Jeff Klingelhofer as co-heads of investment – a newly-created position.
Kirby and Klingelhofer will lead Thornberg’s investment process, deepen the firm’s risk management platform and guide the implementation of ESG analysis across the entire suite of investment solutions. They are to join Thornberg’s executive management team, reporting to Jason Brady, Thornburg President and CEO.
“Ben and Jeff are exceptional leaders, and their contributions and success as investors on multiple investment strategies along with their embodiment of team-centric collaboration have been
Charles A Hurty, a board member of SkyBridge Capital’s Multi-Advisor Hedge Fund Portfolios, has retired after 17 years as a director.
Hurty is a former partner at KPMG and served as a trustee and director at iShares from 2005-2015. During his time serving on the Skybridge Series G Board, he oversaw the growth of assets under management from USD40 million to approximately USD5 billion as of 2019.
“It has been an honour and distinct pleasure to have served on the Board with Charles,” says Ray Nolte, SkyBridge Senior Partner, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Series G Chairman. “He brought our
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) is expanding its European presence with the opening of a new office in Birmingham.
The office will allow ACA to offer a full suite of services designed to strengthen and streamline financial services firms’ governance, risk and compliance arrangements.
Key to the services offered from the Birmingham office will be ACA’s Analysis and Review Centre (ARC). The ARC helps to reduce the workload of CCOs and in-house compliance teams by allow them to pass on executional regulatory responsibilities to ACA. This on-demand service aims to provide an efficient, scalable and cost-effective compliance across the UK.
CryptoCompare, a specialist in digital asset data, has launched a real-time order book product which will enable professional and enterprise clients to create predictive analytics to monitor exchange trading in real-time and anticipate sudden changes across trading activity, asset pricing, cost of trading and liquidity.
CryptoCompare’s real-time order book feed offers streaming, standardised order book data for over 3,000 cryptocurrency pairs traded on the top tier spot exchanges, as defined by the CryptoCompare Exchange Benchmark. Spanning level 1 and level 2 order books, the feed includes top bid/asks and full depth, and can be filtered by exchange, pair and depth
iM Global Partner, an investment and development platform focused on acquiring strategic investments in traditional and alternative investment firms in the US, Europe and Asia, has created a new Client Servicing Department dedicated to international distribution.
Clément Labouret (pictured) has been appointed as Client Services Manager to lead the new department.
iM Global Partner has grown from from three people and USD1.5 billion of assets under management in December 2015 to 22 people and USD10.7 billion of assets under management today.
Based in Paris, Labouret will support the International Distribution team and coordinate with the Partners of iM Global
BSO, an Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider for the financial services industry, is now providing connectivity solutions to Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, directly from the global BSO network.
BSO’s global Crypto Connect network provides specialist solutions for both institutional clients, who require the same high-quality access to Gemini as they do for other traditional asset class exchanges, as well as the demanding crypto community, who equally require nimbleness, high availability and a high performance hybrid network. BSO delivers guaranteed latency on layer 2 backbone with high security to ensure that current and future business needs are catered
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has launched its latest ultra-low latency Ticker Plant Appliance for US Equities.
In partnership with Enyx, a developer and provider of ultra-low latency technologies and solutions for the financial industry, Vela has integrated Enyx’s nxFeed FPGA card into the appliance to provide a step-change in capacity and performance on the smallest of footprints.
Vela’s latest FPGA-enabled Ticker Plant Appliance leverages a hybrid model with Enyx nxFeed handling the decoding, line arbitration, filtering, and full order management & book building in its FPGA card and
Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services to corporate, institutional and private investors has appointed Pamela Valasuo as Head of Sales for Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Valasuo brings over 20 years’ experience of professional and financial services experience to Ocorian and will lead the business development strategy for the region.
A native English and Finnish speaker, Valasuo has previously held various senior management roles with several established service providers in Luxembourg. She holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Buckingham and Stellenbosch University respectively and has also completed INSEAD’s International
Style Analytics, a provider of factor-based portfolio and market analytical tools for investment professionals, has appointed Damian Handzy as Chief Commercial Officer.
Based in the US, Handzy will be responsible for a broad range of both strategic and tactical functions including commercial strategy, product & market research, marketing, and strategic partnerships.
Handzy has over 20 years’ experience in the investment industry with a focus on growing software platforms inspired by technical and financial innovations. He founded Investor Analytics in 1999 as Wall Street’s first cloud-based, multi-asset risk platform, which he sold in 2016. Prior to joining Style Analytics, Damian served
