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EEX Group is restructuring its business in Asia through a reorganisation of the services offered by its wholly owned subsidiary CLTX. The business will now operate under two separate brands: EEX Asia and Cleartech.
EEX says the strategic repositioning will allow the business to better serve the needs of its clients by using both sets of services through greater focus and specialisation on each business area.
Peter Reitz (pictured), EEX CEO, says: “EEX Group’s established presence in Europe, Asia and North America, ensures that it is ideally placed to promote and grow liquidity in the commodities sector worldwide
Apis Capital Management has listed its tokenised investment options, the Apis Token on the Nasdaq Fund Network, a platform for mutual funds and hedge funds, under symbol ZAPISX making it available on networks ranging from Bloomberg’s Terminal to Yahoo Finance.
Apis Token is also registered with the Cayman Stock Exchange.
Apis Capital Management focuses on volatility trading, with a concentration on VIX (Volatility Index) futures, S&P 500 Index options, and volatility based ETNs. The management team at Apis is comprised of industry veterans who have applied their extensive market experience and data analytics to create innovative strategies. Using
Global asset manager MitonOptimal has launched a new Dublin-domiciled DFM fund range offering international IFAs access to the company’s asset allocation and manager selection in a unitised fund vehicle.
The new funds comprise three risk-rated portfolios: Cautious, Moderate & Growth – each available in both USD and GBP denominated classes. The funds offer daily liquidity through a Dublin-domiciled UCITS V fund structure.
Shaun McDade (pictured), Joint Managing Director (Guernsey) & Head of International Portfolio Management & lead Fund Manager to the funds, says: “The new DFM funds provide investors with the investment benefits of a DFM solution with the
Campbell Lutyens, one of the leading global private capital advisors, is pleased to announce that Michele Kinner has joined as a US Advisory Director.
Kinner has over 30 years of experience in private equity and banking. Most recently, she was a Partner at Quilvest Private Equity, where she was responsible for the firm’s private equity investments in the US. She is now a Senior Advisor at the firm. Prior to joining Quilvest in 2005, Kinner managed private fund investments for Royal Bank of Canada. Previously, she was with JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors for over 22 years, where she led
Lazard Asset Management has launched the Lazard International Equity Value Portfolio. The new fund is managed by the Lazard International Equity Value team, who joined LAM earlier this year.
“International equity continues to be a strategic focus for Lazard and for our US-based clients,” says John Reinsberg, Deputy Chairman and Head of Global and International Strategies at LAM. “We are pleased to be able to offer investors this highly differentiated strategy, which we believe complements our existing international equity platform of primarily relative value and quantitative strategies.”
The fund is benchmark-agnostic, investing in companies listed outside of the US
Volante Technologies, a provider of software for accelerated financial message integration and end-to-end payments processing, has released Volante Designer version 6.0,a major release allowing banks and financial institutions to address the increasing industry demand for API, cloud and microservices enablement.
Organisations looking to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the API economy will benefit from Designer 6.0’s Services Manager feature, which allows users to design comprehensive API-driven solutions, or seamlessly integrate into their hybrid environments using standardized interfaces. Services Manager also provides extensive support for microservices architectures, specifically leveraging RESTful APIs, today’s gold standard for open banking.
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Following receipt of regulatory approval from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), Centaur has completed its purchase of Luxembourg Capital Partners SA and is now open for business in the Grand Duchy.
Centaur’s Luxembourg office will focus on servicing private equity and real estate funds and related corporate entities.
Centaur recently acquired Luxembourg Capital Partners, an existing administration firm, which provides a full suite of fund administration services to funds, family office and corporate vehicles. This acquisition brought Gerry Salucci and a team of experienced industry professionals to Centaur to spearhead the establishment and growth of Centaur
BNP Paribas Capital Partners (BNPP CP), BNP Paribas Asset Management’s specialist in external alternative manager selection, has launched an investment programme to provide institutional investors with exposure to the European discounted private debt market.
Fundraising is ongoing, with the final target of EUR250 million expected to be reached in 2019.
The investment programme is structured as a closed-ended fund of debt funds, with a lifespan of seven years and an average duration of about two and a half years. It aims to offer investors a net internal rate of return (IRR) of around 9-12 per cent.
Capital will
Northern Trust has appointed Dane Fannin as global head of securities lending. Mark Snowdon has been appointed to lead Capital Markets for the firm in Asia-Pacific (APAC).
Fannin, who joined Northern Trust in London in 2006, was most recently head of Capital Markets for APAC, based in Hong Kong. He will relocate to Chicago to take up his new role, effective 1 January 2019. Fannin will report to Michael Vardas, global head of Northern Trust Capital Markets, working closely with Andy Clayton, head of Capital Markets for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
“Securities lending has a critical role to
BCS Global Markets, the investment banking division of the largest independent securities broker on the Russian exchange, is planning to open up new investment opportunities for clients, starting with a geographic diversification of its analytical coverage.
The award-winning research team is led by Kirill Chuyko, Head of Research, and BCS Global Markets’ research offering will expand to countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Earlier this year, BCS GM began its expansion in Eastern Europe by offering analytical coverage on the debt markets in the Republic of Belarus.
The diversification of analytical coverage will allow clients to broaden their
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