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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
RigoBlock, a decentralised asset management network based in Switzerland, has partnered with Ethfinex, a subsidiary of iFinex inc (Bitfinex) for the integration of the RigoBlock asset management platform which is due to launch later this year.
RigoBlock’s vision is to decentralise asset management through use of the Ethereum network. Through collaborating with RigoBlock, Ethfinex users will be able to monitor, create and invest in decentralised token funds available on the RigoBlock network.
“Asset management has never been more accessible than with the implementation of the RigoBlock protocol,” says Will Harborne (pictured), Director of Operations at Ethfinex. “We are incredibly
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched a US Treasury Money Market Fund, the HSBC GLF US Treasury Fund, in response to demand from investors for a broader range of cash investment solutions.
The fund is a new sub-fund of HSBC Global Liquidity Funds plc, an Ireland-domiciled fund company with USD40 billion of short-term money market fund strategies. The new fund will meet the new European regulations for Public Debt Money Market Funds as they are introduced, and will continue to operate with a Constant Net Asset Value.
The fund, which has been assigned a AAAm and AAA-mf rating from
Blockchain for private equity firm Swarm has partnered with decentralised autonomous organisation MakerDAO to integrate the Dai token into the Swarm platform.
Swarm writes that this will give Swarm’s community of accredited investors a greater capability to lock in crypto prices, using the world’s first decentralised stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain.
“When we connected with the MakerDAO team, we found them to be like-minded, community-focused technologists. Our cooperative relationship will provide new ways for our investors to create and protect their value,” says Philipp Pieper (pictured), CEO and Co-Founder of Swarm. “It removes what has been perceived as
Markov Processes International (MPI), a provider of investment research, technology, analytics and indices for the global investment management industry, has released the Stylus Pro 11.4, the latest version of its flagship investment analytics software.
The firm writes that new release introduces the ability to perform historical regime analysis and stress testing, as well as hypothetical scenario analysis, or ‘what-if’ shocks, on investment products and portfolios. It also introduces proxy-handling capabilities that enable users to extend analysis for shorter-lived funds.
MPI’s returns-based risk offering is focused on meeting the needs of its core clients—fund selectors and fund sellers. The firm’s industry-leading
Holger Mertens, Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Credit and Chia Woon Khien, Senior Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income at Nikko Asset Management examine the future for Chinese bonds in major indices…
In our publication “Will Investors be ready when Chinese bonds go global?” last October we raised the expectation that Chinese bonds could become eligible for inclusion in major bond indices. In March 2018, Bloomberg announced a conditional decision to include Chinese bonds in its flagship bond index: Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate, starting from April 2019. The index provider also intends to include China in the Global Treasury and the EM Local
As Bitcoin continues its recent rally, Jon Cotton (pictured), Head Strategist at global cryptocurrency prime brokerage BCB Group, has commented on why this latest move may point to a sustained move upwards for the currency in the medium-term.
“As trading volumes increase to sizeable levels and Bitcoin breaches our previously noted important resistance level of USD7740, according to our analysis the recent rally has put the currency back above an uptrend dating back to November. Bitcoin has also broken over its 50-day moving average for the first time since April, and finally broken north of the downtrend from the December high. In
