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Eze Castle Integration has launched the Eze Hybrid Cloud, a complete multi-cloud solution combining the Eze Private Cloud with Microsoft Cloud services to deliver a secure and flexible, fully managed environment.
The Eze Hybrid Cloud innovation was born of Eze Castle Integration’s years of private cloud experience, deep Microsoft partnership and award-winning service organisation. Eze Hybrid Cloud draws layers of security and resiliency from the Eze Private Cloud, applications from the Microsoft Cloud and 24x7x365 expert support from the Eze global service team.
“Eze Castle Integration recognises that clients across the financial sector have different risk profiles, application requirements
Joe Oliver (pictured), has stepped down from LOGiQ Asset Management’s Board of Directors to assume a new role as Chairman of Echelon Wealth Partners, an independent investment dealer.
Oliver served on the LOGiQ Board of Directors since April 2017.
“On behalf of the other members of the Board of Directors, we sincerely thank Mr Oliver for his commitment and service to the Company,” says LOGiQ Chair of the Board, Dr Eldon Smith.
LOGiQ President and Chief Executive Officer, Joe Canavan, adds: “We wish Mr Oliver well in his new role at Echelon Wealth Partners, which necessitated his departure
The Guernsey funds sector enjoyed its largest growth in four years during the first quarter of 2017.
The latest figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission show that the net asset value of funds under management and administration in the island grew by GBP10.6 billion (4.1 per cent) over the quarter – the highest margin of growth since the first quarter of 2013, when funds grew by GBP19.7 billion. From the end of March 2016, total net asset values increased by GBP28.6 billion (12 per cent).
The statistics also build on six straight previous quarters of growth to take the
Mobile trading app Trade Interceptor has launched live FX trading. The apps’ global user base will benefit from full front-to-back functionality of the app, right from account creation, charting and analysis to placing trades and funding & withdrawals.
The live trading feature, which is powered by ThinkMarkets, a leading multi-asset broker dealer, offers users some of the best trading conditions in the market. ThinkMarkets, and now Trade Interceptor users, can benefit from ThinkMarkets global infrastructure, pricing and liquidity.
Trade Interceptor is a leading mobile app that offers FX and CFD traders one of the largest, in-depth and most sophisticated
Nomura Asset Management (NAM) and Nomura Research Institute have conducted a proof of concept (PoC) study to examine natural language processing utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The objective of the PoC was to assess whether analysis with AI would contribute to increased accuracy of portfolio managers’ investment decision-making. Portfolio managers at asset management firms usually have to process and analyse a large amount of information which includes not only analyst reports, but also a flood of various news sources, industry blogs and social media, such as Twitter®, to make forecasts and determine the impact on stock prices.
NAM and NRI
Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA), Pictet Group’s wholly-owned alternative investment company, has appointed Heinrich Merz (pictured), as head of Hedge Funds, effective 1 June 2017.
Merz will lead PAA’s team of 14 hedge fund experts managing EUR 9.1 billion of assets in single and multi-manager hedge fund strategies. He will report to Nicolas Campiche, CEO of PAA.
Heinrich Merz has 12 years’ experience in the alternative investments industry. In his most recent role he was Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Amundi Alternative Investments, overseeing more than EUR5.6 billion in alternative assets for institutional clients. Previously, he worked for Permal Investment
The first half of the year has seen a sharp divergence in returns between Event Driven and Global Macro strategies. These dynamics were also at play last week and so far this month, with Event-Driven extending gains and Macro funds underperforming. Interestingly, the the very same configuration occurred as of end-June 2016.
That’s according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research Team which points out that Global Macro funds were impacted negatively last week by the sharp fall in oil prices and the fall in US and UK Treasury yields. They have maintained long positions on energy
Avelacom, a provider of infrastructure and connectivity solutions for trading, has expanded its network to Riyadh with the aim of allowing global capital markets to access low-latency, real-time market data feeds across various asset classes of Saudi Stock Market (Tadawul).
This market data solution is designed in response to a high demand from the global financial communities to find new sources of liquidity, diversify portfolios, while reducing costs and mitigating risks. Saudi Arabia continues to liberalise markets. Its latest improvements to further align Tadawul with international standards draw attention of global financial firms. And that eventually leads to an increased
CBOE Holdings anticipates trading in options on Altice USA will begin on Friday, 30 June, once the underlying stock has been certified as meeting all of CBOE Holdings’ applicable exchanges’ listing criteria.
The company plans to list Altice USA options on its four options exchanges – Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), Bats’ BZX Options and Bats’ EDGX Options.
Underlying shares of Class A common stock of Altice USA began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) June 22 after an initial public offering on Wednesday, 21 June, in which they were priced at
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has confirmed its non-objection for Euronext to grant direct trading access to US participants on the CAC 40 Dividend Index Futures and the AEX Dividend Index Futures.
Effective 13 June 2017, Euronext participants and investors domiciled in the US now have direct trading access to Dividend Futures on these two blue-chip European indices.
After achieving 100 per cent growth in volumes traded in 2016[2], the CAC 40 Dividend Index Future continues to reach new trading milestones in 2017. From January to May 2017, the number of contracts traded was up by nearly
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