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EEX Groups sales revenue increased by 5 per cent in 2020 to a record EUR320.1 million (2019: EUR304.2 million).
This performance was mainly driven by volume increases in the European power derivatives markets, the environmental markets in Europe and North America as well as the the global dry freight market. In addition to considerable growth in its core markets, EEX Group further extended its reach in Asia with the successful launch of Japanese Power Futures.
Peter Reitz, Chief Executive Officer, says: “2020 was the most successful year in the history of EEX Group and a year in which we achieved
Glue42, a provider of integrated desktop experiences to financial institutions globally has partnered with Cloud9 Technologies (Cloud9), a specialist in cloud-based communications, to deliver a full suite of voice trading capabilities to the institutional marketplace, providing users remote access to all trading floor connectivity and services.
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Eduard Poltavsky has joined IS Prime’s institutional sales team from Refinitiv. In this newly created Sales Director role he will focus predominantly on sales of IS Prime’s Agency Execution service to banks, hedge funds and asset managers across the EMEA region.
Eduard Poltavsky brings a wealth of senior e-FX sales experience to the FCA regulated Prime of Prime brokerage, which is part of ISAM Capital Markets Group. In addition to working as Performance Director, FX Market Development, EMEA at Refinitiv, his career history includes Director of e-FX Sales at GTX, the institutional foreign exchange trading arm of GAIN Capital, which
Hedge funds and asset managers must design portfolios to successfully weather volatile markets, and “invest heavily” in technology, rather than focus on predicting the next downturn, says Man Group chief investment officer Sandy Rattray.
FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has integrated QuantHouse’s QuantFEED Solutions for market data into the FlexONE OEMS.
The newly certified FlexONE integration with QuantHouse is a complete single-source front-end buy-side service offering that provides the “direct to data” connectivity that portfolio managers and traders need to make more informed trading decisions and stay competitive in today’s marketplace.
QuantFEED Solutions deliver high quality market data for 145-plus sources with an unmatched level of performance and quality of normalisation. QuantFEED premium architectures address market data requirements: referential data, EOD, historical data-on-demand, European or National Best
Inflows into digital asset investment products totalled USD233 million last week, the largest inflows since early March, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Assets Fund Flows Report.
While price action last week pushed assets under management to over USD65 billion for the first time.
XRP has been the most popular with weekly inflows of USD33 million, nearly doubling its assets under management to USD83 million.
Ethereum continued to see outsized inflows relative to its market capitalisation of USD65 million. Inflows were also seen in bitcoin cash (USD4 million), polkadot (USD5 million), binance (USD3 million), tezos (USD7 million), and multi-asset (USD6
Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), the fast growing investment manager connecting traditional finance with the digital assets market, has appointed Simeon Tsonev as a Senior Option Trader.
Tsonev joins from BNP Paribas Asset Management, where he was a currencies portfolio manager in its emerging markets fixed income team. Prior to that role, Tsonev worked in FX options trading at Credit Suisse, where he had market making responsibilities for emerging markets currency options.
Tsonev started his career at Merrill Lynch and subsequently worked as an interest rates quantitative trader at DE Shaw & Co. He earned a BA in Economics &
Global macro hedge fund Arete Capital Partners is tilting towards shorter-duration assets amid an evolving rate environment which carries far-reaching consequences for inflation and the cost of capital.
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Tom Mowl as a Portfolio Manager within its Structured Credit and CLO Management team.
Based in London, Tom reports to Sid Chhabra, Head of Structured Credit and CLO Management and will be focusing on investing in US and European Structured Credit securities across the capital structure.
In the past year, the team has added five new hires, reinforcing its growing capabilities within the Structured Credit and CLO space.
Speaking about Mowl’s appointment, Sid Chhabra, says: “Tom is a highly experienced Structured Credit investor. The addition of Tom and several other
AAAccell, an LPA Group company, has enhanced its suite of AI-based investment risk analysis and portfolio optimisation tools through a partnership with Swisscom, a major Swiss IT provider.
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