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KRM22, a technology and software investment company with a focus on risk management in capital markets, has launched the Enterprise Risk Cockpit, a real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms.
The Enterprise Risk Cockpit allows firms to eliminate cumbersome spreadsheets, improving data accuracy and provides actionable insights on enterprise risk.
Enterprise risk management typically requires high manual processing, making it challenging for firms to obtain a clear real-time view of events and their impact. By automating these time-consuming activities firms can gain actionable insights on risk, allowing better informed decision making.
KRM22 is launching the Enterprise
The exhausting momentum of the year-to-date rally, ECB’s downward revisions of its economic forecasts and frictions in US-China trade negotiations sent markets in the red this week, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team.
Hedge Funds were resilient, due to top-down strategies, which are defensively positioned in aggregate. They made up for the losses of Merger strategies’ severely hit by the abrupt turn in the Bristol-Myers-Celgene deal spread.
Lyxor writes: “Bristol-Myers announced the acquisition of Celgene for a record of USD89bn early January, with a 50 per cent record premium (likely aiming to avoid
Amun AG, a Swiss fintech aiming to facilitate access to crypto-asset investments, has completed its first funding round, bringing on board a number of experienced industry figures including Adam Draper, Founder of Boost VC, Graham Tuckwell, Founder of ETFS Capital, Greg Kidd, Co-Founder Hard Yaka, as well as four family offices.
Amun is a technology platform for creating crypto indices and issuing crypto products, in addition to listing, settling, and custody of physically-backed crypto products on public exchanges. Amun listed HODL, the world’s first physically backed ETP (exchange traded product) based on five leading cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, BTC Cash, XRP
Carillon Tower Advisers’ affiliate Raymond James Financial International has appointed Gerrit Van Gorp as Head of Sales/Continental Europe, and Kevin Lloyd as Head of UK/Ireland Wholesale Sales.
Lloyd and Van Gorp expand the capabilities in London of Carillon Tower Advisers, a global multi-boutique asset management firm.
The two strategic appointments strengthen the existing local sales presence for Carillon Tower Advisers and its ability to serve investors in the United Kingdom and Europe. Lloyd will be responsible for the UK and Ireland wholesale market, and Van Gorp will be responsible for sales in Continental Europe. They will report to Don Pepin, Head
LiquidityBook, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has opened a new office at 383 George St. in Sydney, Australia.
The firm, which added more than 40 new customers in 2018, will use the new office to accommodate its growing team and support its rapid expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.


The new office will be opened by Chief Architect Andy Carroll, who joined the firm from Twitter in July 2017. He will be joined by Andre Meintjes, who was recently hired to serve as the firm’s Asia-Pacific Client Services Lead. Meintjes will play a vital role in deploying
The Small Exchange, a new futures exchange focussed on retail customers, is to adopt Eventus Systems’ real-time market surveillance system. The marketplace is deploying the cloud-based version of the Validus platform for its comprehensive surveillance activities.
Eventus CEO Travis Schwab (pictured), says: “We’re very excited to work with the Small Exchange and to play a vital role in the infrastructure underlying the exchange’s operations when it launches. The team behind the Small Exchange is one of the best in the business, and we couldn’t be happier to partner up in this effort. Increasingly exchanges and alternative marketplaces – across a broad
Franklin Templeton Investments Canada has launched the Franklin K2 Alternatives Fund to provide investors with access to alternatives investments in a mutual fund format.
The fund uses a multi-strategy approach in seeking to dampen volatility and offer downside protection, while providing added diversification and low-correlation to asset classes typically held in a traditional portfolio.
“With the market environment being unpredictable over the past year, investors are looking to reduce volatility and protect capital,” says Duane Green (pictured), president and CEO of Franklin Templeton Investments Canada. “Our alternatives fund addresses these investor needs and combines the benefits of a sophisticated solution
Dash Financial Technologies, a capital markets technology and execution provider, has appointed Venu Palaparthi as Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Regulatory Affairs.
Palaparthi (pictured), will be responsible for Dash’s compliance strategy, including the direction of internal regulatory policies and compliance with government regulations.
Palaparthi brings 25 years of securities industry experience that has included roles within management, market structure, compliance and technology. He holds an MBA in finance from the University of Texas at Arlington and currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Financial Markets and Policy in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He
Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business, has appointed a new Head of Funds, Lorna Robertson.
Lorna Robertson (pictured), joins from Invesco where she was responsible for managing relationships with investment and private banks and developing strategic partnerships. Her role covered a range of fund strategies including fixed income, equities, alternative assets, bespoke solutions and fund linked structured products.
Previously she was Head of Capital Market Sales at Raiffeisen Bank International, and a Director at Deutsche Bank specialising in Benelux and UK Structured Credit.
At Connection Capital, Lorna will take charge of the on-going development of its
CME Group is aiming to make equity index futures trading more accessible to active traders through the launch of Micro E-mini futures on the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial Average indexes.
The new Micro E-mini contracts will be one-tenth the size of CME Group’s existing E-mini futures on the respective equity indexes. They will be available for trading in May 2019.
“Futures trading has been growing in popularity for active traders all over the world,” says Tim McCourt (pictured), CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products. “The smaller contract size of
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