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JST Capital, a global financial services firm specialising in digital assets, has joined the Pyth Network (Pyth), an oracle platform designed to provide trusted and verifiable market data to decentralised applications, and will provide real-time institutional-grade crypto market data in sub-second frequency.
Pyth users will be able to leverage JST’s market data through the aggregate Pyth oracle price, being used for on-chain smart contract development in the growing DeFi ecosystem.
Based in the US and Singapore, JST Capital is a quantitative trading firm which focuses on the digital asset ecosystem and provides various financial services to exchanges, token issuers,
GAM Holding AG’s UK subsidiary, GAM International Management Limited (GIML), has reached a GBP9.1 million settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), over the operation of GIML’s conflicts of interest framework between November 2014 and October 2017 and conflicts of interest arising out of three specific investments made by the Absolute Return Bond Fund (ARBF) team between October 2016 and March 2018.
The FCA opened the investigation into GIML following the suspension of an investment director on 31 July 2018. GIML has fully cooperated with the FCA’s investigation, and settlement brings the investigation into GIML to a close. There are
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has published the 2022 calendars for the auctions of EU Aviation Allowances (EUAA) for the EU Member States as well as for the auctioning of EU Emission Allowances (EUA) for the UK in respect of generation of electricity in Northern Ireland for the single wholesale electricity market in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
This has been coordinated with the European Commission, the EU Member States and the EEA EFTA states participating in the common auction platform (CAP3) as well as with the competent authorities of Germany and Poland, as well as with UK authorities.
In its
Northern Trust has enhanced the depth and range of alternative asset data it can provide to asset owner clients through a collaboration with Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics and reporting provider focused on the alternative investment space.
Strong gains in Emerging Markets (EM) hedge funds focused on India, Russia, and the Middle East continued to lead through Q3, navigating macroeconomic challenges of inflationary pressures, global supply chain constraints, and the emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant, with performance topping EM regional equity markets and again being complemented by volatile cryptocurrencies.
The HFRI Emerging Markets (Total) Index has returned +5.6 per cent YTD 2021 through November, led by the HFRI Emerging Markets: India Index, which has vaulted +35.0 percent YTD, while the HFRI Emerging Markets: Russia/Eastern Europe Index surged +22.7 percent, as reported by the latest HFR Asian Hedge
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) is amendinf Directive 87-04, in an effort to ensure the smooth transition of UK groups operating under the Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR), until they establish a physical presence in Cyprus.
CySEC originally introduced the TPR so that UK firms could continue to provide investment services without a physical presence in Cyprus, under the condition that they only offer their services to eligible counterparties and/or professional clients based in Cyprus, up until 31 December 2021.
The amendment means that companies will now be Abe to continue operating under the TPR until the relevant application
Hedge funds focused on emerging market economies remain in solid form, with India-focused managers powering ahead in the run-up to year-end.
India-focused funds are set be the “big performance winners” in 2021, eVestment said on Wednesday, despite losing more than 2 per cent in November.
Overall, emerging market strategies are up 5.27 per cent since the start of the year, with hedge funds trading India (whose returns stand at 40 per cent YTD) as well as Russia (up 11.52 per cent, despite a near-6 per cent November loss) driving performance.
On the flipside, Brazil-focused managers have tumbled almost 20
Glue42, the company that delivers integrated desktop experiences to financial institutions globally, and Aiera, a financial event access and speech technology platform that empowers investment teams and research analysts, are joining forces to put relevant event intelligence and insights at the fingertips of research analysts, fundamental investors and quants in real time.
Several major asset managers are currently considering the joint offering.
As a result of the partnership, Aiera customers will be able to speed up their research, investment and trading workflows. Glue42 clients will benefit from a new workflow-appliance that further simplifies their research, investment management and
BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), RBC Global Asset Management’s (RBC GAM) specialist fixed income manager, has added two new senior hires to its Structured Credit team, Brian O’Hara as a Portfolio Manager and Mark Shohet as a Senior Analyst.
O’Hara and Shohet are both US-based and will report into Sid Chhabra, Head of Structured Credit and CLO Management.
Prior to joining BlueBay, O’Hara was the CMBS Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified Asset Management for 13 years where he was head of CRE/CMBS investments, and a member of the KLS investment committee.
Shohet was Vice President of CLO Tranche Investing at Oxford
MFA supportive of DOL’s efforts to remove barriers to plan fiduciaries’ ability to consider ESG factors
MFA supportive of DOL’s efforts to remove barriers to plan fiduciaries’ ability to consider ESG factors