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Macro Risk Advisors (MRA), a provider of global equity derivatives strategy and trade execution for institutional investors, has expanded its business development team with the addition of Katya Kouznetsov (pictured) as Vice President of Business Development and Clearing Operations.
The appointment of Kouznetsov is part of MRA’s plan to deliver its product and services to a wider audience of institutional investors who will benefit from exceptional analysis of global market risk.
"Katya brings valuable experience in business development initiatives, including prospective client engagement and ongoing client success,” says Drew Forman, Co-Head of Equity Derivative Sales and Trading at MRA.
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions to alternative asset managers, celebrated its 15th year in the hedge fund industry this month by adding its 100th client to a long list of alternative asset managers using its solutions.
Now considered one of the largest independent solutions providers to hedge funds, IVP has clients with more than USD850 billion of assets under management on its platform.
Since it’s founding in 2000, IVP has built a business initially focused on the sell-side to one that is an integral part of the buy-side alternative asset management industry. With projections indicating
Six months after the transfer of agricultural products to the European Energy Exchange (EEX) the exchange registered a significant volume record on its dairy future markets. This is also the highest daily volume ever traded on a futures market for dairy products in Europe.
On 23 October 2015 a total of 324 contracts were traded on the dairy future market, corresponding to a volume of 1,620 tons. 108 contracts were traded in Butter Futures (equivalent to 540 tons) while 216 contracts were traded in Skimmed Milk Powder Futures (equivalent to 1,080 tons).
As of 11 May 2015 EEX has been
A new qualification, the Certificate in Finance and Technology (CFT), has launched as the first and only global qualification designed specifically for technologists in financial institutions.
The CFT is unique in giving technology professionals in financial services organisations a genuine understanding of the business context in which they operate. By bridging the gap between the worlds of finance and technology, the CFT helps financial institutions to maximise the value of their technology teams, as well as helping candidates advance their careers.
Rob Woods (pictured), co-founder of the CFT, says: “The gap in understanding between financial services and technology specialists
TradeSocio, a marketing software provider for brokers, has launched a marketing automation and analytics platform designed specifically for forex and futures brokers.
The platform analyses traders’ behaviour, allowing brokers to automatically send targeted messages to individual traders at the optimal times.
TradeSocio’s new marketing platform provides brokers with a suite of tools to increase their demo-to-live account conversion rates, attract new traders, increase trading volume, and improve the retention of existing traders. The platform achieves this by collecting trading data, and then allowing brokers to build automation ‘workflows’ to send emails to traders when certain conditions are met.
Brokers can
Nissan Century Securities (Nissan) has implemented an Orc Execution Bricks solution to meet the growing demand for high performance connectivity to the Japan Exchange Group (JPX).
Nissan Century Securities is one of the top financial securities firms in Japan, engaging in financial brokerage business. The Execution Bricks solution enables clients of both Orc and Nissan to trade derivatives on the JPX via Nissan’s membership. This joint offering not only ensures quality market access but also regulatory compliance through the use of Orc Flow Control, Orc’s award winning pre-trade risk management tools.
“We are pleased to leverage Orc’s electronic execution solutions
Object Trading is expanding its Direct Market Access Service Platform by co-locating its managed software, client gateways and global connectivity network in the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC), the Australian Securities Exchange’s data centre.
The ALC is the only purpose-built facility designed to meet the needs of the Australian financial markets community, as well as provide access to all ASX execution and information services. By co-locating in the ALC, Object Trading will be able to extend the availability of its specialist services to the ALC’s expanding community.
Gerry Turner (pictured), Executive Director, Object Trading, says: “We have been proud vendors of
EFG Asset Management’s New Capital has launched its SFC-authorised funds in Hong Kong. The four Irish-domiciled UCITS funds were approved by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) on 19 August 2015 and are now open to Hong Kong investors.
New Capital China Equity Fund is managed by award-winning portfolio manager, Mansfield Mok, who has over 25 years of experience investing in Chinese equities. The four star Morningstar-rated fund2 invests in a concentrated portfolio of stocks which have modest valuations yet strong growth potential, and are positioned to benefit from ongoing Chinese reforms.
New Capital US Growth Fund is a four
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is to acquire Interactive Data Corporation (IDC), a provider of financial market data, analytics and related trading solutions, from Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus.
The acquisition is valued at approximately USD5.2 billion, including USD3.65 billion in cash and USD1.55 billion in ICE common stock, and adds technology platforms and new data and valuation services to ICE’s global market data offering.
IDC, based in Bedford, MA, serves the mutual fund, bank, asset management, hedge fund, securities and financial instrument processing and administration sectors. ICE’s data business currently spans nine asset classes across the eleven exchanges and seven clearing
Independent full-service fund administrator Opus Fund Services has appointed Jorge Hendrickson as Head of Sales and Marketing.
“We have added 130 new clients onto the Opus platform in the last 12 months, and Jorge has been an instrumental reason for this exciting growth,” says Robin Bedford Opus CEO. “Jorge has repeatedly demonstrated the skills needed to lead the Opus sales and marketing team and take it to the next level.
Hendrickson says: “I’m very excited for the opportunity to lead the Opus sales and marketing efforts. I look forward to expanding the team both here in New York and globally.”
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