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A Leg To Stand On (ALTSO) is gearing up for its inaugural Rocktoberfest charity concert in London tonight, 6 June 2018, with doors due to open at 6:30pm for a night of live music from bands drawn from the hedge fund and private equity communities, raising money for free orthopaedic care for children.
Rocktoberfest-London will feature performers who by day work in financial services, including the likes of Société Générale, PAAMCO, Simmons & Simmons, Lombard Odier, Albourne, Apple and others. The firm which raises the most money gets to choose their spot on the bill. ALTSO has organised sister events
Ropes & Gray has advised Hamilton Lane on Hamilton Lane Strategic Opportunities Fund IV. The Fund announced its final close with USD900 million in commitments on 5 June, substantially above the initial target.
The Fund is focused on making credit-oriented investments with consistent cash yield, shorter duration and attractive risk-adjusted returns. Fund IV is comprised of a diverse set of institutions, including pension funds, insurance companies, endowments/foundations and high net worth individuals, including a number of existing as well as new investors from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North and South America.
Fund IV represents the fourth dedicated
Boutique prime broker, Invast Global, has signed and issued a Statement of Commitment to the FX Global Code of Conduct. The announcement comes shortly after the firm was officially voted in as an institutional member of the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA). 

AFMA was formed in 1986 and is the principal industry association promoting efficiency, integrity and professionalism in Australia’s financial markets – including the capital, credit, derivatives, foreign exchange and other specialist markets.


According to the Global Foreign Exchange Committee, an official forum of international central banks and private sector market participants, the purpose of the Global Code
Regulatory compliance firm Optima Partners has appointed former Bain Capital chief compliance office Alan K Halfenger as a Partner at the firm.
In his role at Optima, Halfenger (pictured) will focus on the regulatory and compliance needs of private equity managers, hedge funds, broker-dealers and global financial services firms.
Optima CEO Jonathan Saxton says: “Our reputation as a trusted adviser and go-to resource for CCOs and CFOs is essential to our approach and growth. Alan’s deep knowledge and broad regulatory expertise will be significant contributors to our mission and to our clients. He joins a team of highly talented regulatory
Ogier has strengthened its funds practices in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg with three partner promotions.
Funds specialists Justin Savage and Anne-Gaëlle Delabye have both been promoted to partner in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg respectively, while fund finance lawyer Mark Santangeli has been promoted to partner in the Cayman Islands.
Savage, who joined Ogier in 2013, advises some of the firm’s largest investment fund clients on the full life-cycle of open-ended and closed-ended investment funds and private equity structures.
He has also played a leading role in the firm’s cross-jurisdiction innovation strategy which last week saw Ogier
MTS Markets International, part of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), and BondCliQ, a new corporate bond market data solution, have partnered to provide BondCliQ users with data from MTS BondsPro all-to-all electronic trading platform for corporate bonds. 

BondCliQ offers US institutional investors access to high quality pre-trade and post-trade data for the institutional market. Pricing information from MTS BondsPro, an Alternative Trading System (ATS) will now be combined with transactional data and institutional quotes on the BondCliQ system to deliver a comprehensive real-time view of the entire US corporate bonds market. 


Going forward, market participants will benefit from
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is to further streamline and enhance its global trade reporting capabilities as market participants prepare for the upcoming reporting requirements contained within the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR), which are expected to begin to take effect in late 2019.
SFTR will require firms which are subject to SFTR to report securities financing transactions including repurchase agreements, securities lending and margin lending trades to a registered Trade Repository.
By collaborating with EquiLend, Trax, IHS Markit and Pirum, DTCC will be able to offer greater levels of straight through processing, with seamless links to
Fintech company Capital.com is the first CFD trading platform to become fully compliant with the regulations published by the European Security and Markets Authority (ESMA).
ESMA has set out a series of sensible measures designed to protect retail traders from unsustainable or unforeseen risk, which come into effect on 1 August for an initial three-month review period. These measures include negative balance protection to prevent traders losing more money than they invested, the additional protection of an individual trade closeout rule, and stipulated maximum levels of leverage which reflect the volatility of each asset class. In addition, ESMA has mandated that advertising
Castle Ridge Asset Management (Castle Ridge) has appointed Edwin Li, (pictured), former Managing Director with JP Morgan’s New York based Equity Trading business, as a Managing Partner to lead the international expansion of the firm’s artificial intelligence powered hedge fund.
Castle Ridge’s artificial intelligence system, named W.A.L.L.A.C.E., is self-evolving and highly effective detecting complex patterns in global market data. For instance, W.A.L.L.A.C.E. successfully anticipated over 40 public company acquisitions over a 48-month period and avoided major market declines.
Adrian de Valois-Franklin, Castle Ridge CEO, says: “We are pleased to welcome Edwin, who brings extensive investment expertise across numerous asset classes
Where will institutional investors be focusing their alternative asset allocations over the next 12 months? What are the top-line issues they have when assessing managers, and how are their expectations changing?
These are some of the questions covered by Intralinks’ latest LP Survey Report.
You can find out more about the survey via this interactive site and sign up to receive the full report when it’s published this autumn.
