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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has voted unanimously to approve a proposal to codify policies and procedures for clearing organisations located outside of the US to obtain an exemption from registration as a derivatives clearing organisation (DCO).
The proposal will also reduce CFTC staff time and utilise fewer resources to grant exemptions.
The Commodity Exchange Act permits the CFTC to exempt a non-US clearing organisation from registration for the clearing of swaps if the CFTC determines that the clearing organisation is subject to comparable, comprehensive supervision and regulation by its home country authorities. The proposed rules would
BeQuant, a cryptocurrency exchange for institutions and active traders, has launched allowing users to invest in numerous crypto asset classes.


BeQuant’s core product is partnered with established technology Multiexchange who aggregates liquidity and works with large institutions such as HitBTC. By partnering with Multiexchange, BeQuant will be offering access to real liquidity of over USD150 million in average daily traded volume.


The platform’s core matching engine is a preeminent technology, offering traders a wide range of features including real-time clearing and cutting-edge order matching algorithms. The technology will appeal to market-makers, quantitative desks and active traders looking to connect
Eze Software, a global provider of investment technology, has expanded its best execution offering with Trade Informatics’ (TI) Strategic & Tactical Analytic Research & Trading tool (START), a broker neutral automated intelligent trading engine.
Backed by TI’s advanced pre-trade transaction cost analytics, START helps firms align investment and trading strategies and seek out better execution opportunities across brokers’ direct market access routes and dark pools. The engine’s broker-neutral, logic-based trading aims to improve performance, manage costs, and allow control of and transparency into the execution strategy.
Eze Investment Suite OMS/EMS users can choose START from their dashboards as they
In a month where equity products dominated the top viewed strategies globally and in many regions of the world, investors and consultants in Europe ex-UK and Japan had a bigger taste for fixed-income strategies than their peers in July, according to the latest eVestment Advantage Viewership Report covering the past month.
Eight of the top-viewed strategies from investors and consultants in Europe ex-UK were fixed-income strategies. Seven of the top strategies viewed by investors and consultants in Japan were fixed-income strategies.
And while hedge funds didn’t crack the top 20 most viewed strategies globally or on most of the
SANNE has appointed Peter Nagle as the company’s new Country Head – Mauritius. Nagle (pictured), will be responsible for providing expert guidance and support to the local client service leadership teams based on the island.
SANNE’s office in Mauritius is the second largest staffed office across the firm’s global network and is home to more than 200 client services professionals who specialise in funds, corporate and private client services. In this new role, Nagle will ensure the alignment of all client services and group services initiatives to deliver organic growth and will drive best practise throughout day-to-day activities within client services.
Following a marginal uptick in performance in June, CTAs faced headwinds again in July with all of Societe Generale Prime Services’ SG CTA indices posting negative returns.
Although the performance was up in the first half of the month, conditions became challenging in the second half. The CTA Index was up 1.44 per cent and the Trend Index up 2.24 per cent mid-month, however by the end, performance was down 0.71 per cent and 0.81 per cent respectively.
Performance was dispersed as five out of 20 constituent managers in the CTA index posted marginally positive returns. In particular, it
Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the FICC data analytics company, has added real-time analytics for interest rate swaps to its MSX platform.
Live in one of the world’s largest banks, MSX now provides real-time analytics for swaps denominated in US dollar, sterling, euro, and Scandinavian currencies, which make up the majority of the USD2.1 trillion a day interest rate swaps market.
Developed by Mosaic’s team of expert data scientists, the new swaps analytics service allows banks to combine their electronic and voice traded swaps transaction data into a single view.
Additional features include advanced risk analysis, which allows banks
Omniex, a complete investment and trading platform for institutional investors to access crypto-assets, has appointed former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Arthur Levitt and former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Sheila Bair to its Board of Advisors.
In addition, the firm has hired former Thomson Reuters and KCG executives to further accelerate global adoption of its market-ready platform already in use by early clients.
Levitt was the twenty-fifth and longest-serving Chairman of the SEC from 1993-2001. He currently serves as a Board Member at Bloomberg and Motif Investing, an Advisory Board Member of KCG, and
RBC Global Asset Management saw mutual fund net sales of USD524 million in July, with sales of long-term funds registering USD549 million. Money market funds meanwhile had net redemptions of USD26 million.
Mutual fund assets under management increased by 1 per cent.
“Investors and advisors continue to favour balanced solutions, which offer stability and diversification,” says Doug Coulter, president of RBC Global Asset Management Inc. “This trend is demonstrated by strong sales of our RBC Select Portfolios, which in July surpassed USD85 billion in assets.”
Mutual fund sales results information is based on preliminary data from the Investment
Crescent Crypto Asset Management, a cryptocurrency index fund manager led by Goldman Sachs alumni, has completed its Series A financing and launched its offshore Cayman fund.
FBG Capital led the fundraising round with its investment into Crescent, bringing invaluable connections and industry knowledge to Crescent.
Utilising its strong global presence, FBG is focused on helping Crescent grow assets under management for its suite of passive funds both in the US and abroad. In addition, FBG will leverage its network to help Crescent develop and list multi-coin products on traditional financial exchanges.
Uses of the capital also include expanding
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