Swift plans to acquire the assets of SunGard’s Ambit Messaging Hub solution for high-volume financial messaging. The transaction is subject to a number of closing conditions that are expected to be fulfilled by the end of the quarter. SunGard’s AvantGard
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has provided an update on the work relating to the collapse of Trio Capital. ASIC has taken enforcement action on Trio against a range of gatekeepers. This includes directors of Trio, its investment manager, various
The performance of every hedge fund strategy and sub-strategy was in positive territory last week (12-19 March), with Special Situation and Global Macro strategies outperforming, up +0.8 per cent, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research
Hedge funds lost 0.96 per cent in June, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index is now up 0.13 per cent year-to-date. All but five of Barclay’s hedge fund indexes lost ground in June. The
Private equity lawyer Matthew Hudson has formed a new law firm, MJ Hudson, to provide legal advice on the formation of specialist investment funds and structuring deals. MJ Hudson has been formed to strengthen the partnership between advisers and their
HedgeChatter has launched an online SaaS dashboard that allows investors, traders and hedge funds to see how key influencers on social media are affecting stock price and view price trends based on real-time social media data (chatter). HedgeChatter processes nearly
Caliburn Capital Partners, a fund of hedge funds manager with offices in London, Geneva and Montreal, has announced the appointment of Mona Pascual as an operational due diligence analyst.
French banking giant, Natixis, is getting ready to introduce a re-vamped version of Sixtina
Caspian, a full-stack crypto trading and risk management platform for institutional investors and sophisticated traders, has appointed Bletchley Park Asset Management Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer Lewis Fellas to its board of strategic advisers. “Lewis has multi-decade experience in trading
