Equinox Capital Markets, the alternative investment marketing organisation, has appointed Daniel Gormont as an institutional sales associate. Gormont joins a team dedicated to marketing, sales and business development solutions for alternative investment managers both in the US and internationally. Gormont
Plato Partnership, a not-for-profit company bringing creative solutions and efficiencies to today’s equity marketplace, is collaborating with BMLL Technologies to provide twelve daily T+1 market quality metrics to enable more transparency and information across the trading landscape in Europe. This
Hermes Fund Managers, an asset manager offering investment solutions for institutional clients, has selected client communications specialists Equipos to deliver its enterprise-wide client reporting infrastructure. Hermes will use Equipos Coric to automate the production of client reports and streamline client
By Ras Sipko, chief operating officer, Koger – Fund administrators are today under intense pressure to perform as they face greater scrutiny than ever before from clients. Showing that they are operating within industry best practices to help boost their
By Canover Watson, managing director, Admiral Administration – Worldwide, the hedge fund administration industry continues to go through an accelerating phase of consolidation. This is driven by the increasing sophistication of administration, with significant concomitant investment required to install and
Interview with Jeff Short & Keiran Hutchison – Although introduced a few years back, Financial Interpretation Number 48 (FIN 48) has recently become a high priority focus for Cayman fund managers involved in the liquidation of their fund(s). “Initially people
Financial services firm Brown Brothers Harriman has expanded its EMEA securities lending team with the addition of four senior executives. David Lewis, Jacqueline Waller, Céline Emond and Samantha Peppiatt have joined BBH’s team to focus on relationship management and business
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has launched a new ‘MiFID II Eligibility as a Service’ tool. MiFID II brings many challenges to buy and sell-side firms, including the requirement to report trades to the regulator on a
GlobeOp Managed Services will partner with business communications provider Intermedia to offer Outlook 2010 desktop functionality through Microsoft Exchange as a hosted service. The enhanced private cloud service enables GlobeOp to offer clients the benefits of full collaboration functions of
By James Williams – Last year’s Weavering case could have been a hammer blow for Cayman as the world’s leading offshore fund domicile. But, if anything, it helped reinforce its image as a jurisdiction where fund governance is taken seriously,
