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Mercury Capital Advisors has appointed Masashi Hirose as Partner and Eugene Park as Principal to boost distribution and project management efforts for the firm, respectively.
Hirose, who joins Mercury from Teneo Partners, is based in Tokyo, while Park, who has spent the last nine years at First Avenue Partners, ark has joined Mercury’s New York office.
Hirose’s experience covers real estate, infrastructure, private equity, direct loans, hedge funds and venture capital, while Park has completed significant capital raises across a variety of fund types and direct deals in key asset classes including infrastructure, private credit, and private equity.
Liquidnet has enhanced its continental European coverage by deploying specialists in equities and fixed income in Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt and Copenhagen to offer a range of execution services including client coverage, sales trading and trading.
The strategic move taps into the existing geographic infrastructure and expertise within the pan-European TP ICAP Group allowing Liquidnet to deploy coverage teams locally to serve the buy side Member community.
A new survey by IIMI, the boutique asset management think tank, reveals that 61 per cent of its members believe the FCA’s guiding principles on the design, delivery, and disclosure of ESG and sustainable funds to be a positive development for the industry.
Meanwhile, 69 per cent support its proposals to require fund managers to provide disclosures based on the Financial Stability Board’s recommendations in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
The full results of the survey, which was conducted among IIMI’s membership to gather their views on the recent steps taken by the FCA around ESG, are
Decision intelligence firm Ideal is now offering its performance analytics solution to fixed income traders within Broadway’s secure environment.
The partnership between Ideal and Broadway provides traders with turnkey access to industry-leading analytics and actionable insights.
The Ideal Flow solution allows traders to easily review client transaction cost analysis (TCA), compare client profitability, and assess risk in both human and electronic trading. Ideal Flow enables traders to instantly visualise historical trends as well as drill down into trade activity millisecond by millisecond. Integrated market data provides valuable context on market share movements.
Hedge funds have suffered their biggest hit in 18 months after the emergence of the new Omicron coronavirus variant sent markets into a tailspin last month.
FTX US, a US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange, is to deploy the Eventus Validus platform to conduct trade surveillance and risk monitoring on FTX US, and FTX US Derivatives, its recently acquired licensed cryptocurrency futures and options exchange and clearinghouse.
FTX US Derivatives plans to leverage the substantial alert coverage, end-to-end trade practice investigation tools, and advanced data tagging provided by Validus to surveil its listed derivatives market. In addition, FTX US Derivatives and FTX US plan to implement cross-market surveillance to detect behaviour that spans multiple asset classes and order books, and utilise machine learning-based noise reduction tooling in Validus to
Bitfinex Derivatives a derivatives platform accessible through digital token trading platform Bitfinex, has launched perpetual contracts for Neo and Zcash.
NEOF0:USTF0 and ZECF0:USTF0 will go live on 8 December and will be settled in tether tokens (USDt). Both contracts offer users up to 100x leverage.
Brooklands Fund Management Limited, a London-based regulatory platform for growing fund managers, has been authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland to act as the investment manager for Irish authorised investment funds.
The recent authorisation by the Central Bank of Ireland enables Brooklands to manage AIFs established in Ireland. The Irish AIF industry is home to over EUR1 trillion in assets with over 2,200 AIFs. Over 40 per cent of global hedge fund assets are administered in Ireland.
Brooklands is authorised by the FCA as a full scope AIFM with MiFID top-up permissions, in addition to being registered by the
Exegy Incorporated, a provider of market data and trading infrastructure to the financial services industry, and a portfolio company of Marlin Equity Partners, has added two experienced industry professionals to its global sales organisation.
Devry Ross joins Exegy as Global Head of Partners, while Jared Singer has joined the firm as Head of Sales – Americas.
Both Ross and Singer will report to Craig Schachter, Chief Revenue Officer for Exegy.
RBC Global Asset Management’s specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), is added to its client relationship team in Munich, Germany, with the appointment of Matthias Hartmann as Director, Business Development for Germany and Austria, reporting into Viola Patock, Head of Northern Europe.
The appointment of Matthias follows Michael Wolfram who joined in June as Head of Institutional Sales Germany and Austria, and reinforces BlueBay’s commitment to strengthening its presence in the Northern Europe region.
