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Multi-strategy major Millennium Management has made a big bet against América Móvil with the fund building a $320m short position in Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s telecoms empire amid a sharp...
The philanthropic foundation set up by Chris Hohn, founder of hedge fund firm The Children’s Investment Fund Management (TCI), donated almost $500m to charitable activities last year despite recording an...
Brazil’s Legacy Capital, one of the country’s largest independent hedge fund managers, has bolstered its foreign-exchange desk with appointments from local rival asset management firms, according to a report by...
Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has completed its acquisition of Yieldbroker, an Australian trading platform for Australian and New Zealand...
LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has appointed Can Envarli as VP of Engineering, reporting directly to the firm’s Chief Technology Officer Shawn Samuel. Working alongside...
Options Technology, a provider of financial technology and global market data solutions, has formed a new strategic partnership with Raptor Trading Systems, a Canada-based provider of multi-asset trading solutions for...
INSIGHTS
Few hedge fund professionals have held leadership roles in the US, UK, and France. Benjamin Roy’s career has seen him lead tech teams on both sides of the Atlantic, including as head of global markets technology and operations Americas at Société Générale, and now as chief technology officer (CTO) at Paris-headquartered quantitative investment manager Capital Fund Management (CFM), where he is overseeing the evolution of the firm’s technological platform and IT teams.
