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Jeremey Gzaiel has joined United Fintech’s London-based team as Senior Sales Executive, with a remit to grow the firm’s client base in French speaking territories.
Gzaiel brings a wealth of institutional sales experience to United Fintech, which helps banks, hedge funds and asset managers to accelerate their transition to a digital world through access to fintechs specialising in capital markets. He joins from JP Morgan, where he specialised in Emerging Markets Sales, helping institutional clients with solutions in credit, FX and equity derivatives. Prior to that, he worked at Commerzbank in Cross Asset Solutions Sales.
As a native French speaker,
LibreMax Capital (LibreMax), an asset management firm specialising in structured products and corporate credit, has successfully closed its fifth drawdown vehicle, LibreMax Structured Opportunities Partners I, with total capital commitments of approximately USD225 million.
The Structured Opportunities Fund will target investments that have unconventional asset pools or are created in less liquid forms. The Fund will focus primarily on private asset-backed securities across the consumer, residential and commercial credit sectors.
Greg Lippmann, Chief Investment Officer of LibreMax, says: “In today’s environment, we believe private lending affords an attractive opportunity to generate uncorrelated returns. Leveraging our market relationships, asset expertise and
The European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) has successfully launched the sell-off of national emission certificates (nEHS certificates, identified on EEX by the abbreviation nEZ) in the German national emissions trading scheme (nEHS).
At the start of the sell-off, 500,012 nEHS certificates were sold via EEX to a total of 4 participants at the fixed price of EUR25 Euros. Significantly more users from different participants have logged in during the first sell-off to test the new platform. Due to the settlement modalities for the so-called DCP nEHS customers, the sell-off volume and the number of DCP customers will be published one
Brevan Howard, the high-profile global macro hedge fund firm co-founded by Alan Howard, has taken a minority stake in 1543 Capital, an alternative credit and structured finance-focused investment manager, as part of a new strategic partnership.
Pico, a provider of mission critical technology, data and analytic services for the financial markets community, has introduced ultra-low latency venue connectivity.
Pico’s ultra-low latency solution supports clients with latency-sensitive trading strategies requiring highly accurate views of the market and faster execution times. Utilising high-performance Layer 1 switching technology, Pico can now achieve one-way market data latency of 5-87ns and round-trip latency of 140ns for order entry (an 80 per cent reduction from standard Layer 3 access).
This new Layer 1 offering is supported by Pico’s global engineering expertise and instrumented with its best-in-class Corvil Analytics, assuring operational performance, transparency,
The “explosive” upward price movements in energy markets are helping power performance among machine-based hedge funds this year, as CTAs and trend-following strategies successfully lock onto strong price signals.
AxeTrading, a fixed income trading software company, has demonstrated the integration of ICE’s pricing, analytics and market data into the AxeTrader Quoting and Execution Management System (QEMS).
Users of the AxeTrader QEMS will be able to access ICE’s pricing and analytics tools, including end-of-day evaluated pricing, continuous fixed income evaluated pricing, best execution services and ICE Liquidity Indicators™.
As the electronification of fixed income markets continues to accelerate, traders and other investment professionals are demanding solutions that help them make more informed and efficient decisions. The AxeTrader QEMS provides dealer-grade pricing through a user configurable quoting engine, manages RFQs,
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is expanding its Managed Hosting solution to enable firms wanting to co-locate and directly access the Euronext exchange matching engine to seamlessly move trading operations from Basildon to Bergamo.
Euronext is planning to migrate its primary datacentre and related colocation services to the Aruba Global Datacentre IT3 in Bergamo, Italy in Q2, 2022, with TNS securing infrastructure capacity in the new site. As with TNS’ other global colocation sites, TNS will leverage its Layer 1 switching solution to deliver ultra-low latency mutualised market access while also deploying the lowest latency network connectivity to bring Bergamo onto
BTIG has expanded its Fixed Income Credit division with several senior hires who specialise in emerging market debt sales and trading.
Blake Considine and Josh Markfield have joined BTIG as Managing Directors, while Tyler Danielsen joins the firm as a Director.
They each will be tasked with helping to enhance the team’s global reach, industry relationships and client resources across developed and emerging markets worldwide. In their new roles at the firm, they will report directly to Darren Haines and Michael Carley, Sr, Co-Heads of BTIG Fixed Income Credit.
“Our institutional and corporate client base worldwide is increasingly focused on
BlockFills, a global cryptocurrency and digital asset technology company, has launched Phoenix, a SaaS crypto interface designed for institutional clients to access the company’s proprietary cryptocurrency trading technology and liquidity.
