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ACA Compliance Group (ACA), a provider of governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions, has launched ComplianceAlpha 2.0.
This ‘next-generation’ risk and compliance management platform helps global financial services firms stay one step ahead of regulators’ increasingly advanced technological capabilities to detect insider trading, market abuse, and other potential misconduct.
The enhanced platform was designed and developed by the industry’s largest team of former regulators, financial technologists, and cybersecurity professionals.
Jordan Schwartz, Partner at ACA, says: “To effectively and efficiently meet regulatory demands and identify risk, financial services firms no longer have to rely on manual processes and unconnected data sources. Firms need
Style Analytics, a specialist in factor style analysis for investment professionals, has launched a Managed Services solution for qualified asset owners, called ‘Factors as a Service’, providing full support for data management and the building of factor style reports.
Asset Owners are increasingly looking at factor exposures as an integral part of their due diligence, manager selection and monitoring processes and Style Analytics’ factor reporting gives asset owners the ability to do so in all stages of these processes. Factors explain the sources of a fund’s returns and risk and are increasingly used by asset managers and asset owners around
TOBAM, a Paris-based quantitative asset manager and founder of the Maximum Diversification approach, has been awarded the LuxFLAG ESG label to its full range of funds.
LuxFLAG independently verifies TOBAM’s incorporation of sustainable principles throughout its investment process and showcases TOBAM’s commitment to incorporating Environmental, Social, and Governance considerations. The label has been awarded across a number of strategies including Equity, Fixed Income and Multi-Asset portfolios.
Launched in May 2014 as the first European ESG label, the eligibility criteria for the ESG Label requires applicant funds to screen 100 per cent of their invested portfolio according to one of
Specialist fund management company Liontrust has completed the acquisition of Neptune Investment Management Limited.
The Neptune investment team, headed by Robin Geffen and which is now named the Liontrust Global Equity team, has joined Liontrust along with 19 Global, Income, Regional and Emerging Markets funds. There will be no change to the managers running the funds or the investment process used.
Robin Geffen will focus solely on managing funds and the investment team.
The funds have all been rebranded Liontrust and the Neptune Global Income Fund is now called the Liontrust Global Dividend Fund.
The acquisition broadens Liontrust’s
Charles River Development and Tradeweb Markets, an operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets today announced an expansion of their collaboration to provide mutual clients with direct access to fixed income inventory and streamlined workflows from the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS).
The collaboration enables institutional and retail investment firms to seamlessly source cross product liquidity available on Tradeweb from the Charles River Inventory Hub and Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) for global fixed income securities.
Enhancing this longstanding collaboration will allow clients to benefit from enriched pre-trade inventory, the certification
Intercontinental Exchange, an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, and MSCI, a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community, have expanded their existing relationship to include a long-term extension of ICE’s existing license agreement for listed futures based on MSCI Indexes.
In addition, MSCI will license ESG data to ICE Data Services for index construction, while ICE Data Services’ leading fixed income pricing and reference data will be integrated into MSCI’s platform.
“MSCI’s equity indexes are among the most widely used globally, and the index futures
RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM) has launched the RBC BlueBay Global Bond Fund, a globally diversified fixed income fund designed as a core portfolio holding for US investors.
The RBC BlueBay Global Bond Fund is actively managed by the Investment Grade team at BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), and fully integrates environmental, social, and governance principles into its investment process.
“RBC Global Asset Management has built a reputation as a global leader in fixed income solutions,” says Jeff Masom, Head of Global Institutional Distribution at RBC GAM. “The RBC BlueBay Global Bond Fund leverages the depth and expertise of
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed and settled enforcement actions against Hard Eight Futures, and Igor Chernomzav for spoofing – bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the bid or offer before execution – and for engaging in a manipulative and deceptive trading scheme.
Hard Eight is a proprietary trading firm located in Chicago, Illinois. Chernomzav is a founder, partner of, and trader for, Hard Eight, and resides in Monsey, New York.
“This case is about maintaining fair markets,” says CFTC Director of Enforcement James McDonald. “Market integrity in today’s electronically traded markets starts with making
So far in the media, Brexit has been discussed from an essentially British perspective. But the implications – especially in the case of a no-deal departure from the EU – could have an impact far beyond the borders of the UK. Marianne Scordel of Bougeville Consulting looks at some of the steps US fund managers have taken in an attempt to Brexit-proof their businesses…
The referendum took place over three years ago now, and the whole process can be compared at times to a cat crying to leave the house, only to remain on the mat once the door is opened, unsure as to whether to venture
MJ Hudson, a London-headquartered asset management consultancy, has made three senior appointments.
Declan Canavan has been appointed Commercial Director and a Managing Director with responsibility for business development. Canavan joins from JP Morgan Asset Management where he was Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment strategies for the EMEA region. Canavan brings two decades of experience across a wide spectrum of alternative asset classes and investment disciplines.
Remarking on his appointment, Canavan says: “As sophisticated alternative investment platforms across private markets, real assets and hedge funds seek to grow their businesses, they are looking for partners with multi-disciplinary capability
