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Orolia and NexGen Networks have signed a strategic partnership to increase the security and reliability of financial trading systems and other critical networks that rely on extremely accurate timing.
This Time as a Service (TaaS) technology solution is designed to deliver reliable and resilient time sources, as well as increased security through assured redundancy, interference detection, and mitigation — without the need to buy, deploy and maintain hardware.
Resilient timing solutions are essential for financial and other critical infrastructure programs where time plays a critical role in operations or meeting regulatory requirements. Whether from unintentional interference or deliberate system spoofing
Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, is working with Lendingblock, an institutional lending exchange for digital assets, to implement anti-money laundering technology and best practices in anticipation of global regulatory guidance from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Lendingblock is committed to meeting the stringent and comprehensive compliance requirements set by its external regulator, the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, and to adopting global best practices from the traditional capital markets space where regulation of digital assets is forthcoming.
By partnering with Chainalysis, Lendingblock is augmenting existing in-house KYC standards and enforcing due diligence processes, thus protecting its institutional client base
How are hedge funds changing their research methods in the wake of MiFID II? Joe McGrath investigates…
The introduction of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) in January 2018 heralded fundamental changes in the market, specifically when it comes to research.
Buy-side firms have had to scrutinise the amount they spend on research and evaluate the quality of sell-side and third-party materials.
The consensus is that MiFID has led to a reduction in research consumption by hedge funds, with a further fall possible.
Fabrice Bouland, chief executive officer at research management platform, Alphamety, says: “Consumers are increasingly
Multi-strategy hedge fund Typhon Capital Management has appointed Karen Bertoli as Operations and Prime Broker Liaison.
Bertoli splits her time between the United States and the United Kingdom and will support the Operations and External Affairs activities of the growing firm. She will report directly to James Koutoulas, Founder and Chief Executive and work with the entire global team.
“Karen has supported Typhon since Typhon’s first ever conference back in 2009. We’re incredibly excited to have someone with her limitless energy and deep institutional knowledge formally join our team,” says James Koutoulas. “Identifying the right talent for our deconstructed multi-strategy
Artivest, an independent digital platform for alternative investing, has appointed James Hale as Head of Platform, a newly created position for the company.
In this cross-functional role, Hale (pictured) will work closely with clients, vendors, and internal teams to drive innovation and accelerate the adoption and growth of Artivest’s web-based platform.
“James has spent his career at the intersection of alternative investing and digital wealth management,” says James Waldinger, Founder and CEO of Artivest. “He brings fluency to addressing the pain points that have traditionally plagued wealth management firms and their advisors seeking to diversify client portfolios with alternative investments.
Itarle, a provider of high-performance best execution services to banks, is colocating within CME’s group data centre in Aurora, Illinois and hiring staff in New York.
The moves will complete its global data centre presence and, the company says, deliver sharper performance for its suite of algos, order routing and transaction cost analysis (TCA) solutions.
Itarle exclusively provides algos to banks and brokers and expanding its services addresses the growing demand from sell-side firms for more productive and compliant trade execution on behalf of their clients. In particular, the opening of a New York City office in Q2 2019 reflects
Liquidnet has continued the expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) investment analytics platform with the acquisition of Prattle, a provider of automated investment research solutions for portfolio managers, research analysts, and other financial professionals.
Prattle has developed a proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) system to produce analytics that measure sentiment and predict the market impact of publicly available content including central bank and corporate communications (such as company earnings calls and press releases). Asset managers can use these analytics to understand and anticipate relevant market movement, strengthen investment theses, and inform trading strategies.
The announcement follows
Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), a real-time capital markets data analytics company, has appointed Oxford University Professor of Mathematical Finance, Rama Cont, as Scientific Advisor.
Professor Cont’s role will be to help Mosaic Smart Data utilise the latest academic quantitative finance research in the development of its machine learning, artificial intelligence and data analytics capabilities. Professor Cont will work directly with Mosaic Smart Data’s data science team to make the latest in data science technology available to Mosaic’s customers, as well as guiding Mosaic’s R&D activities.
In addition, he will contribute to Mosaic’s quant talent recruitment and to developing links with the
A bad month for share prices made relatively little impact on investors in May, according to the latest Fund Flow Index (FFI) from global funds transaction network Calastone, but mainly because buyers have been on strike now for months.
Calastone says that having shunned equity funds for six months in a row, investors showed that they still preferred to sit on the sidelines as share prices fell, just as they had during the market rebound earlier in 2019. The FFI: Equity registered 50.5 in May, staying very close to the neutral 50 mark where it has been since December. In
iM Global Partner, an investment and development platform focused on acquiring strategic investments in best-in-class traditional and alternative investment firms in the US, Europe and Asia, has appointed Bo Huang as Head of Research.
Huang is joining the investment team led by Jean Maunoury, Deputy CEO and CIO of iM Global Partner.
Beside identifying potential partners and conducting due diligences on them as the other team members do, Huang will focus on the effective implementation of iM Global Partner’s research process. She is also supporting iM Global Partner’s sales teams in promoting the Partner’s strategies.
Bo Huang, CFA,
