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Thomson Reuters has enhanced the Reuters Capital Markets 19901 (RCM19901) service with pricing sourced through Dealerweb and ICAP, providing its fixed income trading clients with a global rates offering to further enable trading decisions.
This is the first time that Tradeweb’s Dealerweb pricing will be available to the market, delivering robust pricing from leading market makers for the RCM 19901 service. Through this collaboration, Thomson Reuters trading clients will continue to have the same level of access to high quality data.
RCM 19901 enables clients to make effective evaluations using an extensive source of prices that assists with both portfolio
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has completed its USD1.855 billion acquisition of Ipreo, a financial services solutions and data provider.
Previously, IHS Markit had announced its intent to acquire Ipreo from private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX) and from the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division on 21 May 2018; closing happened on 2 August 2018.
“We are moving quickly to integrate the IHS Markit and Ipreo services across multiple business lines to provide greater value to our customers,” says Lance Uggla (pictured), chairman and CEO of IHS Markit. “We look forward to seeing them
Crayhill Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm that specialises in private credit investments, has appointed Sloan Sutta as Managing Director.
Sutta (pictured), will be a senior member of Crayhill’s investment team, and his responsibilities will include helping to source, underwrite, structure, execute and manage asset-based investment opportunities, augmenting Crayhill’s differentiated approach to private credit.
“Private structured credit investing requires specialised skillsets, and Sloan’s deep expertise in the space will be an excellent complement to our investment team’s ability to deliver tailored capital solutions to specialty finance companies,” stated Josh Eaton, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Crayhill.
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Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has made 113 promotions, including five senior appointments to director and associate director roles in the biggest round of promotions in the Group’s history.
The promotions came into effect on 1 July, with nearly 15 per cent of the Group’s 720 employees being recognised and rewarded. Combined with the Group’s mid-year promotions, which took place in January, nearly 200 staff have been promoted in the last 12 months.
Of those promoted, five senior appointments to director and associate director positions were announced, significantly strengthening the Group’s leadership team.
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The US CFTC has announced multiple whistleblower awards totalling more than USD45 million which it says demonstrates the growing success of its Whistleblower Program, and in particular the increasing volume and complexity of incoming whistleblower submissions.
Just last month, the CFTC announced an award of approximately USD30 million to one whistleblower and the first award was made by the program to a whistleblower living in a foreign country.
James McDonald, Director of the CFTC’s Division of Enforcement, says: “Today’s substantial Whistleblower awards mark another significant step in what has been a transformative year for the CFTC’s Whistleblower Program and
AcadiaSoft Inc, a provider of margin automation solutions worldwide, and risk analytics firm Quaternion Risk Management have formed a partnership to provide risk services for firms subject to initial margining requirements for non-centrally-cleared derivatives.
The initiative couples AcadiaSoft’s proven capabilities in automation with Quaternion’s extensive quantitative expertise and will enable AcadiaSoft clients to access a range of services via the secure environment of the AcadiaSoft Hub.
“Combining AcadiaSoft’s existing infrastructure with our risk analytics tools presents opportunities to create new products that will greatly benefit both the smaller players in the non-centrally-cleared market facing near-term hurdles, as well as
EEX Group significantly increased trading volumes in its biggest markets during the first six months of 2018.
On the power market, which faced significant regulatory uncertainty last year, EEX Group was again able to increase volumes. Furthermore the Natural Gas and Emission Allowance markets also achieved significant gains. In addition, EEX Group launched further measures in the smaller market segments for Agricultural products and Global Commodities with a view to strengthening its global position.
Peter Reitz (pictured), CEO of EEX, says: “These results clearly show that we have successfully dealt with the challenges of 2017 demonstrating that we are
Catalyst Funds, an alternative-focused mutual fund company, has added three new members to its team, and made one internal promotion.
Dustin Tait, who previously served as regional investment consultant, has been promoted to external wholesaler and will be based out of Nashville. In this new role, he will cover Tennessee and West Virginia. Tait worked in various investment consulting roles for JP Morgan before joining Catalyst.
The new additions to Catalyst’s team include one new hire to the wholesaling team and two new positions in the marketing department.
Joseph McCart, who serves as an internal wholesaler covering Michigan
Ogier has promoted Geoffrey Delamarre and Bernard Elslander to senior associate as part of the firm’s global mid-year promotions.
Delamarre has been a member of the corporate team since 2014, specialising in the establishment of private equity and real estate structures, and Elslander has been part of the firm’s investment funds team since 2016, specialising in unregulated funds.
The promotions follow Anne-Gaëlle Delabye’s promotion to partner in June and Benjamin Devouassoux’s promotion to senior associate in February, as well as the recent arrivals of counsel Eva Gyori-Toursel and associate Cecilia Gomes.
Ogier is the only offshore law firm
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 140.7 TWh in July 2018 (July 2017: 150.3 TWh), including 894,000 MWh traded on its Options segment.
The overall spot volume climbed by 55 per cent over the previous year, following, among others, a sharp increase in gas-for-power demand mainly caused by a resilient heatwave over Europe.
Spot trading volumes in July reached 84.2 TWh, up 55 per cent over the previous year (54.2 TWh). The Dutch TTF market area registered more than a two-fold increase with 29.2 TWh (July 2017: 13.2 TWh). The German
