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Powernext is to introduce financially settled LNG contracts on its trading platform PEGAS, expanding its extensive European offering for spot and futures gas trading with a globally traded commodity.
This is another significant step for EEX Group as it moves into the global commodity exchange space. 


The new LNG products shall be introduced in February 2019 and will be settled against the Platts JKM assessment published by S&P Global Platts. 


In recent years, the market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) has grown significantly and Platts JKM® has also grown in relevance, both in Asia and Europe, enabling Powernext
Multi-asset prime broker Invast Global is to continue its support for the Qantas Australian Women’s Sevens team for the upcoming HSBC Sevens Women’s World Series campaign.
Invast’s logo will feature on the shorts of the Aussie Sevens Women’s side.
Rugby Australia Chief Commercial Officer, Cameron Murray, says: “We’re very proud to be continuing the partnership between Invast Global and our Qantas Australian Women’s Sevens squad.
“The partnership comes in a crucial year for Rugby Sevens and it is a credit to Invast Global that they are excited to partner with one of the flagship Rugby Sevens sides globally,
Alternative investment firm Oak Hill Advisors has implemented Hazeltree’s cash and collateral management suite to manage operational risks, strengthen controls, drive efficiencies and increase yields on excess cash.
Hazetree Cash Manager enables centralised aggregation and monitoring of Oak Hill’s cash balances across more than 25 brokers, banks, and other counterparties; and, the execution of cash movements and payments of more than 100 wires daily via a fully integrated wire solution, including multi-level authorisations, robust controls and detailed audit trails.
Hazeltree Collateral Manager, meanwhile,streamlines and aggregates Oak Hill’s OTC collateral management activity; compares and reconciles internal, independently-valued OTC positions with
Avelacom has launched a new point of presence (PoP) in Equinix’s Tokyo (TY3) International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre providing trading firms with faster and more reliable connectivity between TY3 and Equinix’s London (LD4/5) data centre facilities.
The new London-Tokyo route delivers the lowest latency in the market – 145.3 milliseconds (round-trip).
The London-Tokyo connectivity is designed to serve the needs of financial services firms, enabling them to access market data and send orders at the highest possible speed and improve overall trading performance. London and Tokyo are core FX markets, accessed by the leading bank and non-bank liquidity
The Citco Group of Companies (Citco) has launched CitcoConnect, a new digital solution that automates and simplifies the process of managing prospective investors, including an online utility for the placement of initial investments in alternative funds.
The solution features a flexible data room, dedicated to and managed by each Investment Manager, supporting capital raising and reporting as well as digitised initial subscription documentation functionality with embedded analytics.
CitcoConnect is a stand-alone solution that offers managers full control over which materials prospective investors have access to – including how they interact with such documents – through a secure and flexible
London-based derivatives analytics company, OpenGamma is expanding its business into North America.
The firm’s expansion plans come as regulatory and macroeconomic pressures continue to hit hedge funds and asset managers with offices all over the world. Specific rules on clearing houses means that hedge fund managers can now be charged additional margin known as ‘liquidity add-on’ which can increase the cost of margin by 70 per cent. This increase is inadvertently hitting end investor returns as hedge funds continue to lock down more and more capital.
Market participants in the US are also facing pressures from the uncertainty surrounding
MTS Markets International, part of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), and BondCliQ, a corporate bond market data solution, have launched Liquidity Mapping for BondCliQ’s BondTiQ platform.
The tool allows users to view pre- and post-trade information on US corporate bond liquidity. It combines MTS BondsPro’s comprehensive real-time pricing information with BondTiQ’s data visualisation technology and TRACE data.


BondCliQ offers US institutional investors access to high quality pre-trade and post-trade data for the institutional market. The new tool provides a multi-dimensional interface that supports execution requirements by allowing users to identify sources of liquidity effectively and quickly assess fair value
By George Kaye, Derivitec – Much has been written about the cloud and its impact on the financial industry, yet still the ‘cloud’ remains as nebulous a concept (pardon the pun) as Big Data or Artificial Intelligence. Nonetheless, the cloud is indeed one of the most important, if not the most important, technological innovations of this century. Naturally, as someone who has formed an entire business leveraging the near limitless potential of the cloud for effective risk management, I might be expected to hold such a view, but in this short article I will attempt to justify it. I hope, by
Technology risk cannot be underestimated, especially in today’s regulatory environment where GDPR rules place a heavy burden on securely protecting and storing personal data. Yet establishing a technology risk framework tends not to be a top priority for some hedge fund and private equity managers.
However, those who do take it seriously are moving their security posture beyond merely protecting the four walls of their organisation and more towards protecting the individual, cognisant that reputational damage – largely as a result of human behaviour – is only ever just round the corner. This mobile first thinking pushes managers to look
In a recent report on data analytics, Hedgeweek explored how sophisticated technology tools are being deployed by fund administrators like SEI to enhance the investor experience as well as within the front-office of fund management groups to improve portfolio and risk management.
In that report, Tobias True, Partner and member of the Portfolio Construction Committee at Adams Street Partners, a leading private equity group, explained that as the world continues to evolve around the use of data and the ability to map out different relationships, it has led to an evolution of the process in terms of how Adams Street uses
