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Former US Congressman Richard H Baker, the President and CEO of Managed Funds Association (MFA), is to step down from his positions, effective 31 December, 2019.
In a speech to the Exchequer Club of Washington DC, Baker (pictured) reflected on MFA’s decade of progress since the financial crisis – a time of transformative change for the global hedge fund industry – and shared policy recommendations to strengthen capital markets and help facilitate continued growth.
“The financial crisis dominated my first year at MFA. It also set the stage for a sweeping revamp of our financial regulatory structure. From the
genesis, an international capital markets software firm, has worked with Linear Investments, a specialist prime broker and hedge fund incubator, to launch Real-time Portfolio Margin (RPM), a new scalable solution for cash & margin management in real-time.
RPM delivers interoperable technology, with the flexibility to meet the varying requirements of Linear Investment’s clients. Designed for prime brokers who need to be able to better assess the risk of clients and prospects whilst managing their holistic relationships with their own brokers.
It comes in response to Linear not being able to find an off-the-shelf solution to meet their needs for asset
A new survey by Eze Castle Integration has highlighted the current technology and cybersecurity priorities for investment management firms.
The 2019 Global Investment Management Survey, conducted in partnership with Microsoft and IDG Research, canvassed the views of 150 senior-level executives from the United States and United Kingdom, and its findings cover technology priorities, cybersecurity plans and concerns, outsourcing attitudes and trends, and IT budgeting.
The study shows that small and midsized investment firms worldwide are focused on building out their IT infrastructures. Seventy percent of respondents surveyed indicated IT investment as their top organisational aim (24 per cent) or ranked
The Supervisory Board of La Française AM (formerly Veritas Investment) has appointed Aurélie Fouilleron Masson as Managing Director, effective as 18 March.
The Executive Board of La Française AM is now composed of Fouilleron Masson, Hauke Hess, and Hosnia Said.
Dr Dirk Rogowski, former Managing Director of Veritas Investment, will continue to serve as Managing Director of Veritas Institutional.
Fouilleron Masson joined La Française in 2007 and has held various positions within the group including her current role as Head of Central Europe (covering Germany, Switzerland and Austria) and Global Accounts Business Manager. Aurélie Fouilleron Masson holds a Master’s degree
Ogier has added three senior lawyers to its Luxembourg team, which has grown by 16 in the past six months.
Head of Ogier in Luxembourg, Daniel Richards, says the appointments of Hélène Arvis, Walid Sharara and Anneleen Hofkens demonstrate the focus of the international law firm on its Luxembourg office, a full-service business law team acting for leading investment fund managers, banks, corporate and institutional clients.
“We are seeing strong growth in a number of areas in Luxembourg – including in private equity and real estate, with an increasing focus on regulatory matters – and these appointments further deepen our
The need to implement artificial intelligence (AI) into daily practices in order to cope with regulatory pressures and data management, were reoccurring themes during this year’s TSAM London event.
The increasing demand to transfer to an AI enabled model, reduce costs and overcome challenging geopolitical environments, are central issues facing the asset management industry this year.
During one session exploring the AI revolution in asset management, the majority of the audience, 78 per cent believed that the potential of AI will give their firms a competitive advantage.
Despite this, the asset management industry remains slow to fully embrace
Trade Informatics (TI), an independent provider of quantitative analytics and systematic trading solutions to institutional asset managers, has appointed Andrew Shortland as Chief Executive Officer EMEA.
Shortland will be responsible for the continued expansion of Trade Informatics’ international client base as well as building a team of data analysts and client service professionals to provide local support to the clients based outside of the US.
Based out of the London office, Shortland will report to Matthew Celebuski, Global CEO of TI.
Prior to joining TI, Shortland was Head of International Equities at Jefferies and helped build the firm’s
Thinknum, a leading provider of web-sourced alternative data, has secured USD11.6 million in Series A funding round. Participants included Green Visor Capital, one of the original investors in the firm’s USD1 million seed round in 2014.
Thinknum will use the fresh capital to fund its continuing growth and allow it to further penetrate the institutional investment community and corporate market.
Thinknum’s SaaS-based platform empowers anyone who allocates capital – from “quantamental”-style investors to corporate strategy groups seeking an edge on the competition – to harness the disparate, unstructured data sources available today as a result of online commerce and
Pzena Investment Management, a USD37 billion equity manager based in New York, is to implement IHS Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution.
The firm will be using EDM to master securities and issuers and will also leverage the solution as a data hub for prices, accounts and other entities in the future.
“Following an internal data and operations review, we decided that it was the right time to invest in an enterprise data management solution,” says Evan Fire, Chief Information & Operations Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Pzena Investment Management. “We conducted a review of several EDM
Fonetic has launched new enhancements to its communications surveillance and trade reconstruction platform Trade Comms Suite.
These updates will allow financial institutions to adopt voice and communication surveillance quicker while taking advantage of the most accurate voice surveillance platform currently available.
Among the additions are improved precision to financial language models and speech signal treatment. The new surveillance engine, which has been evaluated against the leading voice surveillance vendors in numerous proofs of concepts, has surpassed the nearest competitors by 15 per cent according to the data received. Apart from offering high accuracy in English, Fonetic is available in more
