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THL Credit Advisors (THL Credit) has named Brian Murphy (pictured), as Head of Capital Markets. Murphy, who is based in Chicago, is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for THL Credit’s Tradable Credit strategy.
In this newly created role, Murphy will be responsible for overseeing all of THL Credit’s capital markets activities, including sourcing investment opportunities from banks and lenders and managing excess risk across THL Credit’s Tradable Credit and Direct Lending strategies.
Murphy has more than twenty-four years of investment industry experience, principally in the area of leveraged finance. Mr. Murphy joined THL Credit in 2012 in connection
SharesPost has launched a new Digital Securities Group allowing token issuers and investors to use SharesPost’s existing Alternative Trading System to invest in ICO’s and trade in digital securities in compliance with US securities laws.
Entrepreneur and private market investor, John Wu, has been named CEO of the Digital Securities Group. His group will work with SharesPost Financial Corp to manage security token ICO’s on the platform and secondary trading of digital assets.
Investors will benefit from SharesPost’s proven transaction capabilities in unregistered securities and the digital custody capability of SharesPost’s Private Brokerage Accounts. Investors will also be able
Ocorian, a global provider of specialist financial services backed by private equity firm Inflexion, is to acquire ABAX, an advisory, corporate and business services provider based in Mauritius.
The acquisition will significantly extend Ocorian’s service range and delivery capability into Africa, Asia and the Middle East and swell its international team to 700 plus staff – including additional representation in Côte d’Ivoire, Dubai, Mauritius, Singapore and South Africa.
In turn, ABAX clients will now be able to access a much wider range of specialist alternative investment, corporate and private client services, across both onshore and offshore locations in Europe
The European Energy Exchange (EEX), Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy have partnered to offer German Power CFDs (Contracts for Differences) on Saxo’s fully integrated trading and risk management platform, SaxoTraderGO.
Saxo’s new German Power CFD will be linked exclusively to prices established in EEX’s Phelix-DE orderbook and will cover both Phelix-DE Base and Peak Futures with monthly, quarterly and yearly expiries.
Through the cooperation with Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy (who will act as market maker for the German Power CFD’s on the Saxo platform), a new and broader range of potential trading participants will now have access to EEX’s
MDX Technology’s MDXT Connect app is now available on the Symphony Market. The new app offers integration capabilities with a wide range of industry standard platforms, enabling users to publish real-time market data, like prices, axes, IOIs, etc, into the Symphony environment and collaborate more effectively with counter-parties, both internally and externally.
The MDXT Connect App is available immediately for download and evaluation. Additional collaboration features are planned over the coming months.
Paul Watmough (pictured), CEO at MDX Technology says: “Data is now recognised as being one of the most valuable, but least exploited assets that exists within every
The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR7,773 million in January 2018, up 20.4 per cent compared to January 2017, and stable from the previous month.
The average daily transaction value on ETFs order book was EUR286 million, up +16.9 per cent compared to January 2017 and up +5.6 per cent from the previous month. At the end of January 2018, 808 ETFs were listed on Euronext compared to 804 at the end of 2017.
From January 2018, volumes on ETFs are only measured on order book activity due to low revenue-impact of off-book
Exchange Data International (EDI) has launched a new Option Analytics service, which covers over 10 million options and futures contracts and 10,000 issuers.
The service uses daily updates and historical data to provide end-of-day analytics and reference data for US and international exchange-listed options on equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs), equity indexes, and futures.
The service includes daily calculations of nine End of Day Options Sensitivities (Greeks – Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho, Vanna, Volga, Speed, Lambda) and five End of Day Implied Volatilities and Interpolated Volatility Surfaces. It also provides Historical Volatilities time series for periods from 10 to 180 days.
Clients with access to
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Polina Kurdyavko as head of its emerging market debt team.
Previously co-head, Polina (pictured), will become sole head of the BlueBay emerging market debt desk following David Dowsett’s move to become a strategic adviser on emerging markets for the firm. Both Kurdyavko and Dowsett will continue to report into Raphael Robelin, Chief Investment Officer.
As a leading investor in emerging markets Kurdyavko has made her mark over the years as a pioneer in this space, ushering the development of new asset classes within the emerging market universe and advocating
EEX Group outlined a programme of innovations for the energy and commodity markets of the future at the E-world energy & water conference in Essen.
Four of the Group’s Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) took part in the press event discussing how EEX Group’s series of innovative projects meets the challenges and opportunities posed by the increasing importance of decarbonisation, digitalisation and decentralisation.

“As EEX Group we are committed to providing our customers with tailor-made solutions that help to shape the future. Our series of innovations is shaped by the major trends of decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation, which will undoubtedly transform
SimCorp has launched new modules and enhancements for Release 6.3 of its flagship solution, SimCorp Dimension, including a new Alternative Investments Manager, which enables buy-side firms to handle illiquid, alternative investment types, such as Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure, alongside more traditional assets.
The Alternative Investments Manager is designed to offer the buy-side market an automated solution for its alternative investments, dispelling the need for niche systems and manual processes. Users can fully integrate the module with SimCorp Dimension’s IBOR (Investment Book of Record) to effectively support multi-asset investment strategies in one highly automated system.
As part of
