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Waystone, a provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry, has secured a significant investment from Montagu Private Equity.
The investment represents a significant opportunity for Waystone to build upon its current expansion plans and continue to invest in offering its clients an extensive set of global solutions. The investment, which is subject to regulatory approval, will see Montagu take a strategic stake in the business and support the next phase of Waystone’s growth.
The investment will also conclude Waystone’s successful partnership with MML Capital Partners (MML) following their investment in 2019. With MML’s support,
By Ben Axler, CIO and Founder of Spruce Point Capital Management – When I started my investment management firm in 2009 after a career in investment banking, I felt emboldened to fix certain structural problems in the industry I was leaving.
ISITC Europe has launched a Post Trade Forum which brings together the post trade community across the capital markets to drive collaboration, share best practice and action changes to improve operational efficiency.
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Trium Capital, a family office backed independent asset manager, has hired multi-asset investor Toby Hayes. With more than 20 years’ experience in creating and managing multi-asset and alternative strategies, Hayes has built expertise across a wide range of areas, including structural returns, risk premia and factor investing.
In several high-profile roles, Hayes has consistently delivered uncorrelated returns to investors. Prior to joining Trium Capital, he was head of multi-asset at Fortem Capital, where he launched and managed the Fortem Capital Alternative Growth Fund. The strategy was particularly notable for its outperformance during the height of the pandemic-induced market sell-off –
Alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital Management (UK) (Cheyne) has opened a new office in Paris – the firm’s fifth office in Europe and its eighth globally.
Stuart Fiertz, Co-Founder, President & Head of Responsible Investment at Cheyne Capital, says: “Since 2018, our private credit investment teams have continued to see more and more interesting opportunities in Europe and particularly in France, so opening an office in Paris was the natural next step. Being in close proximity to those we finance is important to us and we look forward to growing our presence in the country further.”
Over the past four
TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS) is integrating the Glimpse Markets buy-side data sharing tool for fixed income into its multi-asset platform.
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Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investment products, in partnership with Mercury Capital Advisors, an institutional capital raising and investment advisory enterprise, IMD Business School and Banque Pâris Bertrand, an independent, Swiss-regulated private bank based in Geneva and Luxembourg, have announced the results of the second iteration of the annual survey, “What’s Next? Investment Trends for the Future.”
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Avelacom, a low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider for global financial markets, is partnering with LDA Technologies, a vendor of ultra-low latency FPGA products, to deploy FPGA-enabled devices across its network, further reducing latency and enabling high frequency, algorithmic trading firms to improve their trading performance.
The latest generation of LDA’s FPGA-enabled network devices reduce latency by performing extensive packet validation and switching in less than 50 nanoseconds, at least three times faster than conventional switches, while also improving the network efficiency by using innovative bandwidth management algorithms. Pilot devices are deployed on its key ultra-low latency
The Intraday Power market, operated by EPEX Spot, grew by 3 per cent to 9.4 TWh in June (June 2020: 9.1 TWh), with the Dutch market achieving a record volume of 561 GWh (previous record: 472 GWh in May 2021). The Danish Day-Ahead market achieved its second best month with 978 GWh traded.
On the European Power Derivatives market, volumes in Spanish Power Futures increased by 8 per cent to 15.4 TWh. In addition, the power futures for Belgium (+150 per cent), the Nordic countries (+263 per cent), Austria (+188 per cent) and Greece (+578 per cent) all recorded triple-digit
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has upgraded the exchange’s matching engine in a move that bolsters the exchange’s capacity to handle spikes in volatility as volumes continue to surge, driven by increasing numbers of institutional investors entering the space.
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