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The Alternative Investment Management Association has published a new paper on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), setting out practical measures outlining how asset managers and other firms can be betters allies to colleagues from minority or underrepresented groups.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has reported significant growth in its European Emissions markets in the first half of 2021.
The total volume amounted to 742 million tonnes of CO2 which marks an increase of 32 per cent compared to the first half of the previous year (H1 2020: 561 million tonnes of CO2).
The Emissions Secondary Spot market, which EEX organizes in cooperation with its partner Incubex, rose by 74 per cent to 53 million tonnes of CO2 (H1 2020: 30 million tonnes of CO2), being the main growth driver of the Spot markets which overall increased by 6
oxio, a Canadian internet connectivity platform has closed its Series A funding round after successfully raising CAD25 million and bringing their total funding to CAD40 million.
The leading investor for this first significant venture capital financing is Xavier Niel, founder of Free, the telco giant that revolutionised European connectivity. Additional investors include Investissement Québec, Desjardins Capital, Desjardins Entreprise, WNDRCO and Dispatch Ventures.
The closing of this round of funding comes hot on the heels of significant momentum; last winter, oxio participated in the Y Combinator, one of the world’s most recognised start-up incubators. Since its 2019 launch, oxio’s services have
Professional investors believe the boom in cryptocurrency trading has further to run with nearly one in three expecting the level of trading to increase dramatically over the next 12 months, new global research from blockchain-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross shows.
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CLS, a financial market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions across the global FX ecosystem, welcomes changes to the FX Global Code (the Code) which place greater emphasis on the use of payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement mechanisms where available, and provide more detailed guidance on the management of settlement risk where PvP settlement is not used.
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Enhancing the productivity and efficiency of its trading and portfolio management solution for its asset management clients globally, Broadridge Financial Solutions is to utilise OpenFin’s operating system for financial desktops.
Sophia Chelli Herman has joined Argentium as a Principal and Head of Trading. Herman has more than 25 years’ experience in financial markets.
She started her career at BNP in Paris, working in the research and development team on options modeling and trading management software for the Fixed Income desk. She then moved to London where she worked for NatWest, Bankers Trust and then JPMorgan on the Fixed Income swaps desk. In 2000, she transferred to JPMorgan Tokyo where she was responsible for the exotic equity derivatives trading team.
More recently, Herman moved with her family to New York
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, is to facilitate access to Cboe Europe Derivatives, a new Amsterdam-based equity derivatives exchange being launched by Cboe later this year.
This access will be available to clients in addition to Options’ existing connectivity to Cboe’s US and European equities markets.
By connecting to Cboe Europe, one of the largest and truly pan-European stock exchange operators, Options will be able to provide its clients with ultra-low latency access to both market data and order routing services via Cboe’s data centres in Equinix’s LD3 and LD4 campuses. The extension
Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP, a full-service boutique law firm, has opened its first West Coast office in Los Angeles, California.
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Tikehau Capital, the global alternative asset management group, has appointed Cécile Cabanis as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Group.
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