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SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has launched a communications and trade surveillance solution which has been fully integrated with its existing records retention and data analytics platform.
The solution aims to enhance firms’ ability to meet MAR/MiFID II and other international regulatory requirements, while offering powerful and intelligent insight into the underlying data helping to mitigate risk and optimise business performance.
Regulators globally are increasingly focussed on the obligations of financial institutions to proactively identify suspicious activity, market abuse and financial crime, such as insider trading and market manipulation. To monitor this complex array of activity,
SS&C Technologies Holdings has appointed Joseph Maxwell as Technology Head of SS&C GlobeOp’s Hedge Fund Administration group.
Maxwell recently joined SS&C and is based at the company’s 4 Times Square office. He will be responsible for driving SS&C’s technology solution strategy, further strengthening the company’s leadership position in hedge fund technology and fund administration. Prior to joining SS&C, Joe spent over 12 years at Citco; 8 of which he served as the Chief Information Officer for the Citco Group of Companies. He has also held senior positions at BDO Seidman, LLC, The Hackett Group and Deutsche Bank.
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The big question that arises whenever trade wars emerge is the extent to which the principal actors involved devalue their domestic currencies. For the US and China, the battleground is substantially uneven in the sense that China basically controls all of the possibilities to manipulate its currency, whereas the US has limited measures to do likewise.
As FXCM has written, last July the People’s Bank of China set the reference rate for the Chinese renminbi to 6.7671 RMB against the US dollar. It led to an instant 0.9 per cent devaluation and led to the RMB spiking at 6.9348 by
We’d all like to have a crystal ball and see how the markets will perform in future but it remains one of life’s impossibilities. At Private Equity Wire, we’ve tried to do the next best thing and ask the manager community to share their views and opinions on how they see 2019 playing out: in terms of the macro backdrop, deal flow, fee structuring and fundraising.
In Europe, deal volume reached an all-time annual record of 2,230 last year, while deal value reached an 11-year high of EUR199 billion. What might 2019 have in store?
With contributions from an array
LiquidX, a global network for illiquid assets, transacted a record USD7.4 billion in 2018, as year-over-year trading volume soared 40 per cent. The platform handled four times as many unique credits in 2018 than in previous years.
“Our clients transacted hundreds of different credits in 2019, while using multiple structures across 25 different legal jurisdictions,” says Glenn Kocher (pictured), Head of Sales and Client Services at LiquidX. “Whether you are a corporate treasurer, a bank or an institutional investor, having that scope of execution in one place is extremely powerful.”
Novelis, the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminium products and
Lucena Research, a specialist in predictive analytics for financial markets, and Wall Street Horizon, a provider of corporate earnings and events data to institutional investors, are bringing to market new combined offerings in the form of actionable signals for investment.
Lucena’s Data Analytics Suite hosts a collection of carefully vetted elite data sets ready for consumption by investment professionals. Wall Street Horizon’s signals have been validated by Lucena’s artificial intelligence engine and are now available for assessment and consumption through validation reports, backtest simulations, model portfolios, and smart data feeds.
Lucena’s platform is a suite of data science and
Singapore-based Straits Financial Group has expanded its existing relationship with trade surveillance and market risk platform provider Eventus Systems by signing on to the Validus trade surveillance and risk management platform for its Singapore headquarters.
Straits Financial Group is the brokering division of the CWT Group, a leading global provider of integrated commodity services.
Eventus CEO Travis Schwab says: “We began our expansion into the APAC region last year with a presence in Singapore, and we’re thrilled to build on our relationship with Straits after the firm’s US operation has seen what a tremendous difference our Validus platform can
BCA Research, a provider of independent global-macro research, has added Jing Sima and Chester Ntonifor to its team of senior strategists. Jing Sima will serve as Vice President, Managing Editor, China Investment Strategy (CIS), and Chester Ntonifor will serve as Vice President, Managing Editor, Foreign Exchange Strategy (FES).
BCA’s CIS and FES research are relied upon by the world’s leading hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, corporations and institutional investors to gain actionable insights into global economies. BCA employs the largest team of strategists in the independent global-macro research industry, with 19 managing editors and 33 supporting researchers. Both strategists will
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has expanded its Sustainable Advisory Committee through the appointment of Valborg Lie.
Lie has extensive experience and knowledge of Sustainable Investment, including through her previous role as Head of Responsible Investment (RI) with the Asset Management Team at the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, which holds the role of principal for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global.
She is Founding Director of Borg Consulting, which advises investors on the development and implementation of RI policies and practices, including stewardship activities and ESG (Environmental, Social and governance) integration.
During the autumn of 2017, Lie
IDFC Asset Management Company (AMC) has launched the IDFC India Equity Hedge – Tactical Fund, an AIF Category III offering, which will follow a Tactical Long/Short Equity strategy.
The fund will have significantly higher net exposures, typically ranging between -40 per cent to +120 per cent, to have higher participation in equity market movements on both sides.
Vishal Kapoor (pictured), CEO, IDFC AMC, says: “With the current market volatility, investors are looking for a fund that can provide absolute returns irrespective of the market cycle or how the interest rates are moving. Also, as the fund’s return and risk
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