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CMC Markets, a provider of online trading, has extended its cryptocurrency spread betting and contracts for difference (CFDs) offer across its retail client base. Clients can now take a position on the original bitcoin and ethereum cryptocurrencies paired against the US dollar.
The latest offering follows CMC Markets’ exclusive launch of cryptocurrency spread bets and CFDs to its professional client base in March.
David Fineberg (pictured), Group Commercial Director, says: “Since successfully launching our cryptocurrency offering in March to our professional clients, we have received increasing interest and demand from our retail client base to trade this unique digital
Nasdaq Anayltics Hub, which provides institutional investors, fund managers and traders with a library of vetted, back-tested and normalised alternative and financial data to help inform investment decisions, has added a raft of new data sets to its offering.
The new additions include ESG Holdings Intelligence, which is exclusive to Nasdaq, and is the only data that scores based on empirical evidence rather than third-party designations.
The new Social Media Sentiment data set meanwhile, is based on iSentium’s patented natural language processing system, while the Supply Chain Networks Exposure data set identifies critical and well-positioned companies in the global supply network.
The number of alternative fund managers choosing to future-proof their EU-focused funds through Jersey continued to grow in the first six months of 2018, according to the latest figures from Jersey’s financial regulator.
Data from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) for the period ending 30 June 2018 shows that the number of Jersey-registered managers opting to market into EU Member States through national private placement regimes (NPPR) under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) rose 8 per cent between January and June 2018, and 23 per cent year-on-year to stand at 161.
Meanwhile, the total number of
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has appointed former NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems executive Micah Kroeze to its management team.
Kroeze (pictured), joins the New York team as VP, Product Management where he will be responsible for driving new business growth and supporting the firm’s product development.
Kroeze brings nearly a decade of industry experience to Options from NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems, where he oversaw the growth of the firm’s market data and hosted services product lines. Kroeze was instrumental in the expansion of the firm’s infrastructure,
Skip Hashimoto, managing director of Ogier Global in Tokyo, has been appointed to the executive committee of AIMA Japan.
Hashimoto (pictured), says: “It is a privilege to join the Executive Board of AIMA Japan and have the opportunity to work closely with leaders in the Japanese alternative investment fund industry.
“AIMA is widely respected in Japan and works closely with the Tokyo Metropolitan government as well as the Ministry of Finance and other government and regulatory bodies to further enhance and develop a closer relationship between the investment funds industry.”
Chaired by Ed Rogers of Rogers Investment Advisors,
Sustainable investment management firm Osmosis Investment Management is launching a UCITS fund to provide investors with absolute returns, uncorrelated to equity markets, while delivering a significantly reduced net environmental footprint.
The Osmosis MoRE World Resource Efficiency Fund – Sustainable Market Neutral takes long positions in global listed companies in developed markets that are demonstrably the most efficient in using energy and water inputs while producing the least waste, per unit of revenue generated. It takes short positions in the least efficient stocks – constructing a portfolio targeting both a financial and an environmental return.
The investment team identifies resource
European equities clearing house EuroCCP has appointed Cécile Nagel as Chief Executive Officer. Nagel joins from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) where she was most recently Head of LSE Markets Global Product Development and LSE Exchange Traded Products.
Nagel joined LSEG in 2009 and has worked in a number of senior roles across the organisation including Head of Strategic Planning for the Group and Global Head of Equities and Commodities at LCH Group, LSEG’s multi-asset clearinghouse. Prior to LSEG, she worked at Oliver Wyman and the Financial Services Authority.
In November 2017, EuroCCP confirmed that Diana Chan, Nagel’s
BNY Mellon has made another significant addition to its global strategy team with the appointment of John Velis as FX and Macro Strategist for the Americas.
In his new role, Velis will take his place among the Aerial View commentators, sharing his insights through regular market commentary distributed to both clients and the media.
Velis joins BNY Mellon from State Street, where he was instrumental in running a Macro Research function that applied proprietary data on investor behaviour, market-risk modelling and real-time inflation analysis to the firm’s client base.
Prior to State Street, Velis was based in London
AlphaBot, a technology solution for sourcing, analysing and allocating to alternative investments, has added performance data and analysis tools enabling investors for the first time to compare, portfolio build, and compile reports on more than 1,600 crypto currencies and tokens.
Launched in 2018, AlphaBot helps allocators – including high net worth individuals, family offices and institutions – find and connect with investment platforms, hedge funds, data sources and other providers. Using AlphaBot, allocators can obtain fund performance and benchmarking data, then model, build and execute portfolios all from a consistent, user-friendly interface.
“As the crypto currency markets grow and mature, AlphaBot
OKCoin is to join SharesPost’s Global Liquidity And Settlement System (GLASS) as exchange nodes. In conjunction with SharesPost’s existing Alternative Trading System (ATS), GLASS will provide OKCoin with compliant access to the US investor market.
“With the security token market poised to take off in 2018 and beyond, we’re thrilled to be partnering with OKCoin on the upcoming launch of GLASS,” says Greg Brogger (pictured), Founder and CEO of SharesPost. “As one of the leading global digital asset exchanges, OKCoin will be an instrumental partner as we build a new, decentralised network that can facilitate the trading, certification, and custody
