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ABBYY, a specialist in Content IQ technologies and solutions, has launched ABBYY Vantage, an enterprise platform aimed at providing human-like cognitive skills to intelligent automation platforms such as robotic process automation (RPA) and business process automation (BPA).
The new platform can be leveraged by enterprise companies in financial services and insurance, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, and other industries. Several high-profile enterprise customers and consulting partners are participating in the early adopter program, including MSD, UK-based Symphony Ventures, RoboRana, and RPAbox.
ABBYY says Vantage offers a transformative shift in the way structured and unstructured content is processed, using cognitive skills
Ned Davis Research (NDR) has appointed Josh Monroe as its Global Head of Sales. Monroe will oversee a sales team spanning across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, which serve both the institutional and wealth management markets.
Most recently, Monroe served as Senior Vice President, Head of Sales, Trading and Risk Solutions for North America at Fidelity National Information Services (FIS). Prior to FIS, he served as Vice President within the Global Macro business at SAC Capital. His capital markets experience also includes roles at Morgan Stanley and Ayco, a Goldman Sachs Company.
“I’ve long respected NDR as a global
Derivatives marketplace CME Group reached average daily volume (ADV) of 19.1 million contracts during March 2019, compared to 20.8 million contracts in March 2018.
In addition, total daily exchange trading volume surpassed 20 million contracts on each of the final six trading days in March.
Open interest (OI) at the end of March 2019 was 126 million contracts, up 9 per cent from year-end 2018 and unchanged from March 2018. First-quarter 2019 ADV marked the third-highest quarterly ADV ever with 18.6 million contracts, down from a record 22.2 million contracts in the first quarter of 2018.
Interest Rate volume averaged 10.4
Onchain Custodian is to aunch its digital asset custody platform and value-added services at the Chain Plus Asia Pacific Blockchain New Finance Summit, on 11 and 12 April in Singapore, where ONC will speak and exhibit.
The summit and launch event are expected to attract high profile VIP guests from around Asia.
Headquartered in Singapore, Onchain Custodian has developed a comprehensive online platform to secure digital asset investments with customisable custody solutions and institutional grade security and controls. The SAFE Digital Asset Custody Platform is flexibly built to meet the possible futures of digital asset custody. It supports mainstream crypto
Integral, a forex technology specialist, has reported that average daily volumes (ADV) across its platforms totalled USD39.0 billion in March 2019, an increase of 17 per cent compared to the previous month and 8.8 per cent more than March 2018.
“Our growth in March was driven by a combination of new customers beginning to trade on the Integral platform and existing customers expanding their business,” says Harpal Sandhu, CEO of Integral. “Our clients are deriving greater value from Integral as they trade more, and other market participants understand the benefits of accessing the richest pool of liquidity, so they continue to
Intertrust, a provider of administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, has strengthened its fund servicing platform in Ireland with the launch of a new fund administration business.
Intertrust will provide administration services to both Irish and non-Irish domiciled collective investment schemes providing expert support to its global portfolio of private equity, real estate and private debt clients in relation to their back-office accounting and investor relations operations.
Intertrust Ireland Managing Director, Imelda Shine (pictured), says: “The decision to extend our Irish fund services business to include fund administration speaks to our strategy of
A Leg To Stand On’s (ALTSO) 2nd Annual Rocktoberfest concert in London will take place on 19 June 2019.
Members of the hedge fund and private equity communities will come together for a night of live rock & roll entertainment, with the aim of raising money to provide free orthopaedic care for children.
The line-up will feature bands whose performers are moonlighting from their day-jobs in high finance, with previous acts coming from those including Apple, Société Générale, PAAMCO, Simmons & Simmons, Lombard Odier, and Albourne.
The modern-day hedge fund typically consumes vast amounts of data and leverages its IT providers for next-generation tools and analytics to keep it at a competitive edge. And whereas the private cloud was deemed an ideal environment in which to run hedge fund activities, the pace of innovation in the public cloud arena, the inherent scalability it offers, and the vast army of technology professionals at its disposal mean that hedge funds are now questioning the virtues of using private cloud managed services providers.
“One thing we’ve witnessed over the past year is that organisations using private cloud offerings have
Robert Quinn Consulting Limited (RQC) and Capricorn Fund Managers Limited (CFM) have partnered to create a unique new discretionary management regulatory hosting platform, Capricorn Regulatory Hosting.
Robert Quinn Consulting is a leading compliance consulting firm founded 12 years ago with extensive experience of FCA, SEC and CFTC compliance and offices in London and New York. Capricorn Fund Managers is part of the Capricorn Capital Group, an international family office with offices in London, Johannesburg and Hong Kong with a long history and speciality in alternative investments and backing fund managers.
The new platform brings together the alternative investment management and
The experienced former UBS small cap team of Stephen Wood, Victor Gomes and David Haddad have joined Australian multi-boutique fund management business Fidante Partners to set up a new Australian small capitalisation companies boutique called Eiger Capital.
The team will manage the Eiger Australian Small Companies Fund (the Fund) which will provide retail and institutional investors access to a portfolio of small cap stocks.
Wood says: “The decision to join Fidante Partners was a relatively easy one given Fidante’s fund manager support team, size, and track record of creating the right environment for boutiques to flourish.”
The trio bring more
