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Financial technology group ayondo has expanded its product portfolio with the launch of Bitcoin trading, allowing its clients easy access to the price movement of Bitcoin without the need to open up an e-wallet to purchase bitcoin on the internet.
Bitcoin is a type of digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank.
The digital currency has experienced rapid growth recently and can now be traded at ayondo via spread betting/CFD trading. Bitcoin is also available to signal providers
Beginning in 2018, Kempen has decided to cover external investment research costs as part of its strategy to comply with MiFID II. These costs however may still be passed on to clients under strict conditions.
MiFID II contains a provision that states that specific costs incurred for external investment research must be transparent and recognisable as such. The current practice is that trading and research costs are lumped together in a single fee, the commission that a client pays for a transaction. Separate pricing for external investment research, a move known in the industry as ‘unbundling’, should increase transparency in
Intercontinental Exchange has reported a new daily volume record of 3.35 million contracts for the Three Month Sterling (Short Sterling) futures contract set on 15 June, 2017. The previous record was 2.89 million contracts set in June 2014.
On 13 June, ICE’s FTSE 100 Index futures contract traded over one million contracts for the first time since its launch in 1984, setting a new daily volume record of 1.14 million contracts. The previous record was 862,468 contracts set in March 2014.
The records follow an increased focus on the UK following the recent general election. In addition, despite no
Just a decade ago, the cyber threat landscape was far less pronounced, but thanks to significant advances in IT, mobile technology and digital platforms, the threat of cybercrime has grown exponentially and poses risks across the global industry and for national critical infrastructure (power stations, hospitals, dams, financial services).
As managers in the financial services industry increasingly adopt digital technologies, they increase the number of attack surfaces and weakness points within their networks. As a fund manager introduces a new counterparty into their network, the exact increase in risk is unknown but it may likely be substantial.
“Unless you are
Polen Capital, an independently owned global investment manager, has launched a US Small Company Growth strategy to be led by Tucker Walsh from a new office in Boston.
Walsh has managed small cap portfolios and researched small cap companies for more than 25 years and brings a wealth of leadership experience from his roles as CEO and Head of Portfolio Management at Copper Rock Capital. He will build and head Polen Capital’s Small Company Growth Team as an autonomous unit out of a new Boston office.
The US Small Company Growth strategy seeks to outperform by investing in stocks
Jefferies has entered into a new alliance whereby Mandiri Sekuritas will provide equity research on companies in Indonesia on a co-branded basis to the Jefferies global base of institutional clients.
Mandiri Sekuritas will also provide local equity broking services to Jefferies clients.
Mandiri Sekuritas is one of the leading local brokerage houses in Indonesia. Its longstanding strong position has been recognised by a number of prestigious awards in the industry including an award as the “Best Local Brokerage House” for seven consecutive years by Asiamoney Brokers Poll 2010-2016 and the “Best Equity Capital Market House 2016” by FinanceAsia. Mandiri
New hedge fund launches in Q1 2017 increased for the first time since the first quarter of 2016 as both hedge funds and equity markets gained through the first part of the year, and measures of financial market volatility fell to record lows.
New hedge fund launches totalled 189 in Q1, up from 153 in the prior quarter, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, released today by HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry.
Hedge fund liquidations declined narrowly in Q1 2017 as total industry assets continued
O’Brien Investment Group (OBIG) has launched the OBIG Discretionary Global Macro Fund, managed by Monica Fuentes, PhD. The hedge fund will be open accredited institutional investors and large family offices as of 1 July.
The Fund will offer a Founders Share Class for the first USD100 million of assets under management (AUM), available with a USD250,000 minimum investment.
A futures-only version of the strategy was launched last month, available exclusively in a managed futures separately managed account. The minimum for a futures-only managed account is USD2 million.
John W O’Brien, Jr, OBIG CEO, says: “A year and half
In accordance with its obligations to the Energy and Climate Authority (DGEC) relative to the tracking of renewable energy, Powernext, as the National Registry for electricity guarantees of origin, is publishing the French residual mix and releasing information about the consumption of renewable energy in France.
Some 94.7 TWh of the 524.6 TWh of electricity produced in France in 2016 originated from renewable sources (59.2 TWh from hydroelectricity, 20.7 TWh from wind, 6.5 TWh from biomass and 8.3 TWh from solar) . The share of renewable energy in the production mix amounts to 18.1 per cent in 2016.
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Research Affiliates has launched a new version of Asset Allocation Interactive, an online investor tool that provides investment information and expected return data across more than 130 assets.
The site features newly added alternative asset classes including real estate, hedge funds, and private equity. The site also includes 11 model portfolios – encompassing expected and historical returns and risk, tracking error, CAPE ratios, inflation expectations, yield curves, GDP growth rates, commodity term structures, and more.
Acknowledging the popularity of the tool outside the United States, results are now available in four additional major currencies: euro, British pound, Japanese yen,
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