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GTreasury has entered into a connectivity agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co (GS&Co) and Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) to connect the Goldman Sachs Liquidity Solutions Portal with GTreasury’s treasury management system (TMS).
The new arrangement will create an end-to-end workflow for investing in money market funds, introducing on-demand connectivity to third-party banking and fintech services.
“Our partnership with GS&Co. and GSAM speaks volumes about the increasing role of the TMS as a digital backbone for corporate financial services,” says Terry Beadle, Global Head of Corporate Development at GTreasury. “Connecting treasury’s ecosystem of third-party bank and fintech vendor processes into
SaaS company VendEx Solutions has launched VKey which leverages artificial intelligence technology in conjunction with machine learning techniques as tools for VendEx Solution’s data team to extract up to 317 embedded terms from market data contracts, including standard business terms as well as complex data and analytics usage rights.
This information is then made available for market data vendor managers and end users to corroborate compliance and internal controls with contractual terms and conditions of data usage of specific services.
The project lead for one customer says: “VKey will help us to more efficiently manage our market data contractual terms.
FlexTrade has partnered with ACA Technology Solutions to help mutual clients manage their trade surveillance and compliance needs using ACA’s Decryptex surveillance technology and FlexNOW.
“FlexNOW and Decryptex are stand-out products supported by highly-responsive and knowledgeable teams. Integrating Decryptex with FlexNOW allows us to review our trading from a compliance perspective quickly, reliably and with the granularity we need,” says Shoshana Wainer, Head of Compliance at Albar Capital. “FlexTrade and ACA Technology helped us make our workflow more efficient. This partnership will undoubtedly be a real benefit to firms that choose these leading technology providers.”
According to Rhyd Lewis, FlexNOW
Blackstone has appointed Limin Wang as a Managing Director on the Quantitative Research team in Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM).
Limin joins from Laurion Capital Management, where he spent four years as a Portfolio Manager. Prior to that, he spent over ten years with Credit Suisse as a director on their proprietary trading desk. He also has held roles at Lehman Brothers and at Columbia University, where he served as a research scientist in theoretical physics. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil/MA in Physics from Columbia University, and a BA in Physics
Satuit Technologies has partnered with DocuSign to allow clients to streamline the process of preparing, signing, acting on and managing digital agreements through the SatuitSIP Secure Investor Portal.
When using the e-signature integration, a recipient can manage forms and signatures within the portal. There is no need to leave the portal interface. Documents requiring signatures are automatically distributed through the portal and are immediately available to the account manager once they are completed. There is no need for investors to download or upload any documents published for signature.
DocuSign helps organisations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on,
Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Lauren King as a partner in the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice in New York.
King focuses on the organisation and operation of private investment funds. She represents a wide variety of funds with extensive cross-border components, including secondary, buyout, real estate, special-opportunity, hybrid, credit and venture capital funds. King also advises private asset managers on the full spectrum of corporate matters, including governance, upper-tier structuring, succession planning, marketing and limited-partner transfers. Additionally, she represents secondary investors in connection with general partner-led restructurings and other secondary transactions. King has significant private equity and joint
Corporate and funds lawyer Andrew Tually has rejoined Carey Olsen’s its Singapore office.
Tually began working in the firm’s Guernsey office in 2007 before relocating to Carey Olsen in Singapore in 2017. Following a year with one of the leading commercial law firms in Australia, Tually returns as counsel in Carey Olsen’s Singapore corporate and funds practice to provide specialist Cayman Islands and Guernsey legal advice to the firm’s growing Asia client base.
Tually has over 12 years’ experience in connection with the structuring, formation and provision of ongoing advice to open-ended and closed-ended collective investment schemes, including private
RWC Partners has expanded its global equities team with the appointment of two new analysts.
Reporting to Louise Keeling, head of global equities, Benjamin Hall and Nathaniel Clark have joined the USD2.2 billion Global Horizon strategy which is focused on investing in a portfolio of global companies trading at a discount to their intrinsic value.
Hall joins the team from Mondrian Investment Partners where he spent seven years working as an equity analyst and portfolio manager on the Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund. During his time there, Hall gained a wealth of experience working across a wide range of Emerging
Financial services provider Apex Group and eFront, a specialist in alternative investment technology, are teaming up to deliver a portal solution to Apex clients worldwide.
Apex and eFront have joined forces to further enhance LP-GP relationships through eFront Investment Café, a secure investor communication portal. Teamed with Apex’s ability to support the broadest range of private equity technology platforms in the industry, eFront Investment Café provides managers with a tailored platform solution to best suit their structure.
The relationship is further enhanced through Apex’s ability to deliver a truly end-to-end financial service solution to clients.
No matter which technology platform
Northern Trust (NTRS) has developed a new pricing engine that utilises machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to drive revenue growth for clients by more effectively forecasting the rate to loan securities in the securities lending market.
Built on a hybrid-cloud platform that allows for highly efficient processing of data, the algorithm leverages numerous strategic market data points from multiple asset classes and regions to project the demand for equities in the securities lending market. Northern Trust global securities lending traders are able to leverage these projections, together with their own market intelligence, to automatically broadcast lending rates for 34 global
