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Going into this week’s ECB meeting, Macro/ CTA strategies maintain large net short positions on the EURUSD cross, which are in line with expectations that the ECB will announce additional easing measures. Indeed, over the recent weeks, ECB officials have been pretty vocal about their intentions and this has contributed to the common currency being dragged close to 1.05 versus USD.
Deutsche Börse Cash Market: Deutsche Börse has introduced a new advanced version of its Xetra electronic trading system release 16.0, offering customers new matching functions specially designed for larger volume orders.
In addition hardware optimisation has furthermore led to an overall performance improvement and reduction in latency. 

“With the new Xetra Release we are supporting our customers from an early stage concerning the implementation of regulatory requirements resulting from the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, MiFID II. We are furthermore increasing the attractiveness of on-exchange trading compared to OTC trading through new features such as the Volume Discovery Order,”
Hawksford is now able to provide a full range of trust services to both private and corporate clients in the Cayman Islands, having secured a Trust Licence from The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
Hawksford director Steve Robinson (pictured), who will help to build Hawksford’s name in the Cayman market, says the trust licence represents a milestone for the international corporate, private client and funds business. With this expansion into Cayman, Hawksford can now offer fiduciary services to clients from Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.
‘We are delighted that Hawksford now has operating capabilities in the Cayman Islands, this is
A new trading team has joined London-based specialist CTO Old Park Capital to launch the SI8 strategy from 1 December.
According to the firm, the SI8 strategy is a systematic trading model that generates uncorrelated high risk adjusted returns from daily volatility of markets and trades equities, rates, FX and commodities, and has been run by Shin Ikoshi and Paul Condon since October 2014.
Ikoshi has over 20 years’ capital markets experience, specialising in trading exchanged listed futures and options working for Mizuho Bank, UBS AG, Daiwa SMBC Capital and the Singapore based credit fund, Opus Europe.
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Agecroft Partners has acquired the business of Alta Via Advisors, a New York based hedge fund third party marketing boutique.
Alta Via Advisors’ client base will be migrated over to Agecroft Partners and Andrew Feldman, Alta Via’s founding principal will join Agecroft Partners’ team in a senior management role where he will be responsible for all European operations as well as parts of North American client coverage. He will also be responsible for helping the firm with hedge fund due diligence, creating hedge fund industry research white papers and helping guide the overall vision of the firm.
Andy Feldman brings
LME Clear, the clearing house for the London Metal Exchange (LME) market, has launched two new services – trade compression and the ability to post metals warrants as collateral.
“We are delighted to be offering these two new services,” says Trevor Spanner (pictured), CEO of LME Clear. “As a new clearing house, LME Clear is in a great position to innovate and keep pace with change, and the launch of these services shows LME Clear understands the unique and particular workings of our market.”
LME Clear is the first clearing house ever to accept warrants as collateral. Market participants
On 28 August 2015 Aberdeen Asset Management PLC launched a USD500 million liquid alternatives fund – the Aberdeen Alternative Strategies Fund – designed to give investors access to a portfolio of alternative strategies. At the time, Morningstar quoted Andrew McCaffery, global head of alternatives at Aberdeen as saying: "Alternative investment strategies are becoming increasingly central to client portfolios and moving into the mainstream. This is why we have seen such strong demand for this fund. Many investors are constrained by complexity, liquidity, transparency and regulation."
This follows Aberdeen's acquisition of leading fund-of-hedge-funds manager Arden Asset Management and is just one
Incorporate the latest research advances and state-of-the-art practices in your investment business. Yale School of Management is teaming with the EDHEC-Risk Institute to deliver
Capital Support has released an new service, Cyber Secure, to meet the cybersecurity needs of alternative investment managers. Capital support says that Cyber Secure combines strong perimeter protection with live intelligent analysis to provide effective cybersecurity protection.
Cyber Secure has been designed with the finance sector in mind. The service is provided in two models: Protect and Detect, and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management). Protect and Detect provides advanced next generation firewall functionality, helping to protect firms from cyber-attack whilst introducing higher visibility and promoting the safe use of systems by users. SIEM extends the Protect and Detect service
Global Prime Partners has appointed Sean Capstick as Head of Prime Brokerage with immediate effect.
Capstick, who expects to double the size of the company’s broking business in three years, joins from RWC Partners, the USD11bn equity asset management business where he was both a member of the management committee and also Head of New Markets. Capstick had responsibility for all of RWC Partners client business outside of Europe.
Prior to this, Capstick was European Head of Prime Brokerage at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He has also held senior positions at Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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