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SimCorp, an independent provider of SaaS investment management solutions, has partnered with Domos FS, to provide a complete front-to-back-office investment management offering covering both public and private markets for asset managers, asset owners and service providers.
The partnership has been created in response to the increased use of alternatives in recent years by a wide range of asset managers and asset owners, and the operational challenges this has presented for existing and new investors in these asset classes.
The partnership is further reinforced by SimCorp taking an initial minority stake in Domos FS.
JUMP Technology, a European provider of a unique and modular investment management platform combining Data Management, Front-Middle-Back, and reporting capabilities, has expanded its partnership with Swiss financial data specialist SIX to provide JUMP Technology platform clients with greater access to SIX data.
From now on, JUMP clients will have full access to ESG data from SIX to support them with the implementation of their responsible and sustainable investment strategies. They will also benefit from direct access to global sanctions data that, in connection to the JUMP compliance module, will allow them to detect pre- and post-trade infringements to existing sanctions
FlexTrade Systems, a specialist in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has integrated Tradefeedr’s unified data analytics API within FlexTRADER EMS.
Tradefeedr enables collaborative analysis of trading performance between liquidity providers and their clients using standardised common metrics. The first FlexTrade client, a European buy-side firm, is now live and in production using the integration.
The move is designed to deliver buy-side trading teams using FlexTRADER EMS seamless access to real-time, analysis-ready FX data to improve the speed and quality of trading-decision making.
CME Group’s SOFR futures contracts have reached a new open interest record, surpassing 1.6 million contracts on 30 November, a 137 per cent increase in open interest year to date and more than 60 per cent growth since mid-September.
November’s SOFR average daily volume increased to 304,314 contracts per day, up over 250 per cent year on year.
Additionally, CME cleared SOFR swaps notional volume reached a fourth consecutive monthly record in November, surpassing USD124 billion in cleared notional. Notably, SOFR-indexed swaps accounted for a record 32 per cent of CME Group’s USD swap trades in November, up from 5 per cent in July.
With ESG data now a hot commodity across the financial services sector, hedge funds and other asset managers must dig deeper into company metrics to gain an edge, as the industry continues to grapple with a lack of consistent standardisation of sustainability scoring.
Investors poured more than USD7 billion of new capital into hedge funds globally in October, the strongest capital inflows recorded in more than a decade for what is a traditionally quiet month for industry coffers – but there are warnings that new allocations are becoming concentrated in a small handful of funds and strategies.
Quantamental active asset manager Stouff Capital has doubled its assets under management over the past twelve months, and is aiming to launch a new global macro absolute return fund in Q1 2022.
During an extraordinary period of market turbulence, Stouff Capital exceeded its performance goal during the three years since its inception. The Geneva-based investment business generated a net performance of 25 per cent with volatility of one-third the market level. The strategy was able to take advantage of two significant falls in the market thanks to an asymmetric return profile.
Due to its responsiveness, the approach has been particularly
Integral, ahas technology company in the foreign exchange market, reported today average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms of USD50.6 billion in November 2021.
This represents an increase of +0.2 per cent compared to October 2021 and an increase of +5.9 per cent compared to the same period in 2020.
Integral’s global trading network has been designed to meet the trading needs of the widest variety of buy-side FX market participants, including banks, brokers, asset managers, and hedge funds.
FactSet has launched new fixed income trading capabilities for its execution management system (EMS).
Portware, a FactSet trading solution, is best known for its electronic trading and automation services in the listed assets and Foreign Exchange markets. With the introduction of fixed income trading, it is now able to help clients trade more efficiently across more asset classes. FactSet worked with longtime client GIC to build out these new capabilities, which now operates in parallel with the other asset classes already supporting GIC’s global trading desks.
“Faced with greater demands and increased complexities, our traders need to have consistent
ED&F Man Capital Markets has adopted TS Imagine’s real-time risk, compliance and margin platform.
ED&F Man Capital Markets will now be able to manage initial and variation margin risk for SPAN and VaR based methodologies across its futures and options trading and clearing business.
Data management, unoptimised workflows and the complexity of managing multiple systems led ED&F Man Capital Markets to seek out a new risk and margin management solution. Following the success of the TS Imagine platform at clearers and prime brokers, and anticipating the need to upgrade their systems, ED&F Man Capital Markets selected TS Imagine’s fully
