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The first mobile-focused personal wealth manager exclusively for crypto assets, B21, has announced a partnership with Salus Alpha, a licensed and regulated investment provider for retail and institutional clients.
Through this partnership, B21 will list Salus Alpha’s Smarter than Crypto (STC) top 20 by market cap index fund, an actively managed closed cap fund for retail investors. In addition, Salus Alpha will provide the license framework for B21 to create its own funds on the B21 platform, improving its fund management capabilities.
“By partnering with Salus Alpha, we’re able to accelerate the deployment and expansion of the B21 platform,
NEX Markets, a NEX business which provides electronic trading technology services in the fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) markets, announces today that BrokerTec Europe Limited has signed an agreement with BME Clearing, the Spanish Central Counterparty (CCP) operated by BME, to launch a new clearing option for BrokerTec’s existing clients.
The agreement expands BrokerTec’s footprint in Spain by providing additional clearing services to the broader bank community. It will also enable BME to provide repo clearing services to existing BrokerTec clients.
Currently many banks trade Spanish repo bilaterally and clear via BME Clearing. Through the agreement with BME
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Gautam Kalani to the newly created role of Emerging Market FX Strategist.
Based in London, Dr Kalani will join the five-strong EM strategist team, reporting to Senior Sovereign Strategists Timothy Ash and Graham Stock, and will be responsible for analysing and shaping global FX positioning across BlueBay’s emerging markets investment strategies. His previous experience as an economist and FX strategist augments the team’s existing technical and fundamental expertise.
Polina Kurdyavko (pictured), Head of Emerging Markets at BlueBay, says: “Gautam’s appointment is a key new addition to BlueBay’s local markets
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is to open a new office in Dublin, Ireland, to continue providing an authorised regulatory reporting service for clients in the EU27 and the UK post-Brexit.
DTCC offers a Global Trade Repository (GTR) service for over-the-counter and exchange traded derivatives reporting – the largest trade repository in the world.
“DTCC has had a strong presence in Europe for over two decades, including in London, Wrexham, Brussels, Frankfurt and Stockholm. Our continued growth and desire to get ahead of new regulatory obligations, because of Brexit, now takes us across the Irish Sea to
Following the announcement by the European Securities and Markets Authorities (ESMA) that leverage rates offered by CFD trading providers must be significantly reduced by 1 Aug 2018, CFD trading provider Capital.com reduced its default rates across commodities, currencies, cryptocurrencies, equities and indices from 1 June 2018.
This has enabled the first analysis of the impact of lower leverage rates on client behaviour and trading performance, which clearly indicates a significant improvement in client outcomes.
The overwhelming majority of users who registered for Capital.com’s trading platform in June chose the ESMA-mandated lower leverage limits. Comparing their performance against published industry performance levels and historic client performance reveals
As the global market for investment research continues to unbundle post MiFID II, RSRCHXchange has added to its service offering as an aggregator and marketplace for written research with a new suite of functionality for other research services.
Buy-side users can now schedule, book and buy meetings, calls and webinars with analysts from among the 375 banks, brokers and independents currently using the RSRCHX platform. The new features have all the compliance and control functionality that users and providers have come to expect from RSRCHXchange, in addition to providing both sides with a consumption audit trail.
Call and webinar
Scope has published a new rating methodology for evaluating the quality and competence of individual investment teams within asset management companies.
The methodology is applied to investment teams which predominantly invest in liquid, traditional instruments such as shares and bonds, as well as in liquid alternative strategies such as long/short equities.
The new methodology expands Scope’s rating spectrum. Until now, Scope evaluated asset managers in their entirety as well as in individual asset classes (investment centres). As a result of the new methodology, a focussed assessment of individual investment teams is now possible.
The evaluation focuses on industry
Hedge funds were down 0.34 per cent in June with H1 2018 almost flat, with a 0.08 per cent gain year-to-date, according to the latest Eurekahedge Report. This would be the weakest first half performance of hedge funds on record since 2000.
The strongest gain occurred in H1 2009 when hedge funds gained 10.62 per cent while the next weakest H1 performance came in H1 2010 when managers posted gains of 0.91 per cent.
Total hedge fund assets grew by USD8.8 billion over the past six months, which compares with a growth in total AUM of USD98.5 billion over
Alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group has closed a USD511 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO).
This is the sixth CLO issued by Mariner’s leveraged credit team and the third in the past 10 months, bringing the total CLO assets under management to approximately USD3.1 billion.
Mariner’s leveraged credit team transitioned from ORIX Corporation USA, Mariner’s parent company, in the fall of 2014. The 18-member team is co-led by David Martin and Erik Gunnerson, who together bring over 30 years of investment expertise. Martin and Gunnerson have managed the team for nearly nine years, including while at ORIX USA and
The Securities Information Processors’ (SIPs) Operating Committee has added three new members to its Advisory Committee.
The new members are Chris Nielsen, Managing Director, Charles Schwab & Co, W Todd Watkins, Director, E*TRADE Financial Corporation, and Matt Billings, Managing Director, TD Ameritrade.


The SIP Advisory Committee meets quarterly with the CTA and UTP Operating Committees and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review SIP performance and discuss policy matters. The 11-member Advisory Committee represents the diverse viewpoints of the marketplace, with representatives from the retail investment community, the vendor community, the institutional brokerage community and the ATS community.
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