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Hazeltree, a provider of integrated treasury management and portfolio finance solutions, has acquired ENSO Financial Analytics (ENSO), a provider of portfolio analytics for hedge funds and prime brokers, previously owned by CME Group Inc.
ENSO will become an integral part of Hazeltree’s product suite, and its prime brokerage, asset management, technology and data specialists will be integrated with Hazeltree’s team to continue to focus on customer support and product innovation.
“We’re thrilled to join forces with the ENSO team as our combined talents in treasury, portfolio finance, data, and technology will offer unparalleled expertise and support to investment managers,
OKEx, a spot and futures digital asset exchange, has launched an initiative to create a Self-Regulated Organisation (SRO) aimed at standardising exchange practices and policies.
Similar to the World Federation of Stock Exchanges, FINRA in the United States, and the World Economic Forum, OKEx is engaging exchanges and market participants in the global crypto-trading community to become members of this initiative.
Announced during day one of the DELTA Summit in Malta, the international “Blockchain Island” and OKEx’s headquarters, this SRO will be an independent, membership-based organisation that is neutral and open to exchanges of all sizes and jurisdictions. Member
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today that it issued orders filing and settling charges against two interdealer brokers – BGC Financial, LP and GFI Securities, LLC.
The orders find that brokers employed by BGC and GFI on their respective emerging markets foreign exchange options (EFX options) desks made false representations that certain bids and offers were executable and that certain trades had occurred. The orders were entered on Monday, 30 September, 2019.
The respective orders require BGC to pay a civil monetary penalty of USD15 million and GFI to pay a civil monetary penalty of USD10
big xyt, a provider of market data analytics, has launched XYT View, a specialist aggregated view of fragmented market information that the firm says participants need to ensure that they are achieving the best possible outcomes for themselves and their clients.
Steve Grob, CEO at Vision 57 and market commentator will be working with the Strategy team to provide market consultancy and additional thought leadership.
XYT View provides a meaningful range of market overview metrics and has been developed to fill the information gap caused by the withdrawal of previous alternatives. Delivered via interactive dashboards, users can observe changes
Align, a global provider of technology infrastructure solutions and managed IT services, has been voted “Best Cyber-Security Services Provider” in the Hedgeweek USA Awards for the second consecutive year.
The award is based on an online peer-review survey in which investors, hedge fund managers and service providers are invited to elect a “best in class” in a variety of categories. The recognition comes on the heels of Align ranking 122 on the Top 200 Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs) of 2019.
“We’ve strategically unified our Managed IT Services and Cybersecurity Advisory Practice to provide clients with a robust, comprehensive
The Hedgeweek and Sentieo webinar event, Using AI to supercharge equity research for alpha generation, explores the way that technologies such as natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) can aid hedge fund equity analysts and portfolio managers in their research efforts to deliver alpha. Hedgeweek Editor, James Williams, sat down with Sentieo Co-Founder and CEO, Alap Shah and Voss Capital Analyst, Taylor Henderson to discuss how AI can help hedge fund equity analysts and managers in their investments.
Global law firm Goodwin has opened a new office in Luxembourg. Together with Goodwin’s existing London-based Luxembourg desk, the new office will serve as a single solution for the firm’s global clients raising and deploying capital in Europe.
“With a market-leading funds practice in the United States and Europe, and now an on-the-ground presence in Luxembourg to augment our well-established, London-based Luxembourg desk, Goodwin is uniquely positioned to serve multi-national financial institutions, fund sponsors and asset managers looking to do business in this favoured international jurisdiction,” says Rob Insolia, Chairman of Goodwin. “As the firm at the confluence of capital
Tradeweb Markets is partnering with two margin optimisation providers, Cassini Systems and OpenGamma, to offer clients a choice of vendor access to life-cycle cost analytics, including initial margin, collateral, clearing fees, brokerage and trading costs.
Tradeweb’s integration of margin optimisation analytics with its interest rate derivatives platform will provide institutional investors with pre-trade initial margin calculations, as well as real-time insight into trade execution options, such as optimal clearing venue and clearing broker selections. As a result, Tradeweb clients will be better able to minimise trade life-time costs and prove best execution.
“Tradeweb continues to connect markets, this time
SYZ Asset Management, the institutional asset management arm of SYZ Group, has named macroeconomic and currencies specialist Stephen Jen as chairman of the firm’s advisory board on total return startegies.
Jen is CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital, a London-based asset management company specialised in emerging market debt, currency management and macroeconomic research, and part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Banking Group. He has been appointed as chairman of the external advisory board on the recently formed total return strategies team, headed by Adrien Pichoud. The advisory board will work closely with Pichoud and the total return strategies team, benefitting
Pico, a provider of technology services for the financial markets community globally, has added to its European network of exchange colocation facilities with the launch of hosting services at the Borsa Italiana exchange colocation facility in Milan.
This latest phase in Pico’s strategic expansion of its European solutions, provides ultra-low latency access to Borsa Italiana trading platforms and real-time market data services. The Milan exchange colocation facility provides direct access to Borsa Italiana equity and fixed income markets (MTA, ETF Plus, MOT, SEDEX), derivatives markets (IDEM, IDEX) and Euro TLX bond markets.
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