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Aquis Technologies’ new connectivity hub, Aquis Market Gateway (AMG), has significantly increased the number of active users in the last quarter and, according to the company, is now Europe’s leading SI connectivity network.
The AMG, which went live in early 2019, is designed to enable Systematic Internalisers (SIs) and Counterparties to connect bilaterally, via a normalised application programming interface (API). The relationship between SIs and their Counterparties (brokers) via the AMG is entirely and strictly bilateral and thus in line with MiFID II stipulations.
Users of the AMG include SIs operated by XTX Markets Limited, Jane Street Financial Limited Citadel
Hedge fund managers ended April 2019 up 1.05 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 1.00 per cent on an asset-weighted basis. Roughly 70.6 per cent of the hedge fund managers tracked by Eurekahedge recorded positive returns over the month.
Fund managers focusing on North America overtook their Asian peers and topped the chart across geographic mandates by returning 6.72 per cent year-to-date.
Across strategies, long/short equities mandate maintained their top spot based on April 2019 year-to-date performance.
iM Global Partner and Dynamic Beta investments (DBi) have launched the iM DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF, one of the first actively-managed Managed Futures exchange traded funds (ETF) on the market.
In a context of markets turmoil, iM Global Partner and DBi are deeply convinced that the iM DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF should meet investors’ needs of liquidity and transparency.
The Fund’s objective is long-term capital appreciation by investing in multiple asset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities through futures and forwards contracts.
The iM DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF seeks to achieve its objective by
Digital transformation: Science, not fiction – Science fiction is a beloved and enduring genre largely because of technology’s transformative potential. The best examples leverage this to the hilt and extract as much dramatic tension as possible from the situation.
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with USD37 billion of assets under management, as successfully completed fundraising for its inaugural Private Credit programme with approximately USD1.1 billion of capital available to deploy, including leverage.
Since the launch of the private credit strategy in 2016, Adams Street has seen strong demand from institutional investors worldwide, with commitments from both new and existing investors in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The diverse array of investors included public and corporate pension plans, insurance companies, foundations, family offices and high net worth individuals.
“We were pleased to receive such
A micro-networking scheme for women in private equity and investment has connected 100 members, six months after launching.
The group helps women in the investment sector make professional connections and aims to establish a supportive network to address gender inequality across the industry.
Kea Clusters are small, unsponsored networking events for women in investment. Each cluster has six to ten members who meet every eight weeks to share professional and personal advice and support.
In an industry where fewer than 10 per cent of senior professionals are women, the scheme has ambitious plans for expansion as it seeks to address
Frederik van Tuyll has been appointed to the Board of the holding company of Ocorian, a provider of bespoke administration and fiduciary services to corporate, institutional and private investors, and will take on the role of Chairman to help support and shape the business in its continued growth phase.
A highly experienced and industry recognised figure, van Tuyl joins Ocorian following a distinguished career having first built a significant owner managed business across the Asia Pacific region, before joining Equity Trust as Head of Asia and then Chief Executive Officer of the group. Following the merger of Equity Trust and TMF Group,
Vistra, a global trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, has appointed Anita Yu as Regional Compliance Director – North Asia, effective immediately.
Anita will be responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of Vistra’s compliance strategy in the region, covering markets including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. Based in Hong Kong, she will report directly to Chief Compliance Officer Tanya Scott-Tomlin.
Yu is a seasoned compliance professional with 20 years of experience in compliance, business development and client services. She joins Vistra from a global investment management firm with key operations in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris and Dublin. Prior
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index increased to 79.5 in May, up 6.6 points from April’s revised reading of 72.9.
Confidence among North American and European investors improved, with the North American ICI rising from 71.3 to 76.7, and the European ICI rising from 86.6 to 92.5. By contrast, the Asia ICI dropped by 4.2 points to 88.4.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and selling patterns
eXate, a data privacy solutions provider, has joined OpenFin’s growing community of financial institutions and FinTech firms deploying their desktop applications on OpenFin’s OS.
In the analogue world, ink bombs ensure that stolen cash is rendered useless. In the digital world, where data is the new currency, eXate acts like a digital ink bomb and renders data useless upon a breach.
With the implementation of GDPR, eXate enables firms to more easily handle onerous data privacy requirements by allowing sensitive data to be secured, tagged and sharded, and then reconstructed if permitted. The solution allows users to implement a data
