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Jane Street and Virtu Financial have committed to supporting the upcoming launch of global markets infrastructure and data solutions provider TP ICAP’s Digital Assets Spot Platform.
Most hedge funds are now moving to a permanent hybrid working environment as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, but concerns over team-building, collaboration and decision-making remain, as more managers look to expand their product offering into new areas and strategies, a wide-ranging new study published by the Alternative Investment Management Association and KPMG has found.
JTC has acquired Essential Fund Services (EFS), New York-headquartered provider of a broad range of services in the alternative assets space, including accounting, reporting and administrative services to investment partnerships and their investment managers.
The acquisition will be settled via cash and JTC equity.
Gerard Federici will continue to lead the business and all current EFS employees will join JTC, becoming part of the Group’s Institutional Client Services (ICS) Division. The transaction is not subject to any regulatory approvals and completes with immediate effect.
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide, has launched IvyDB Global Indices 3.1.
This database offers even more options data across major indices in North America, including the United States and Canada; Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and an expanded volatility surface, enabling better assessments of shorter- and longer-term investing and hedging strategies.
OptionMetrics IvyDB Global Indices 3.1 covers 35 major indices, representative of global markets worldwide, including S&P 500 Index, CBOE Russell 2000, VIX CBOE Market Volatility, DJ EURO STOXX50, VSTOXX, S&P 100 and 400, Nikkei 225, Hang Seng, CAC 40, Asia Nikkei,
JST Capital, a global financial services firm specialising in digital assets, has joined the Pyth Network (Pyth), an oracle platform designed to provide trusted and verifiable market data to decentralised applications, and will provide real-time institutional-grade crypto market data in sub-second frequency.
Pyth users will be able to leverage JST’s market data through the aggregate Pyth oracle price, being used for on-chain smart contract development in the growing DeFi ecosystem.
Based in the US and Singapore, JST Capital is a quantitative trading firm which focuses on the digital asset ecosystem and provides various financial services to exchanges, token issuers,
Northern Trust has enhanced the depth and range of alternative asset data it can provide to asset owner clients through a collaboration with Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics and reporting provider focused on the alternative investment space.
Glue42, the company that delivers integrated desktop experiences to financial institutions globally, and Aiera, a financial event access and speech technology platform that empowers investment teams and research analysts, are joining forces to put relevant event intelligence and insights at the fingertips of research analysts, fundamental investors and quants in real time.
Several major asset managers are currently considering the joint offering.
As a result of the partnership, Aiera customers will be able to speed up their research, investment and trading workflows. Glue42 clients will benefit from a new workflow-appliance that further simplifies their research, investment management and
The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, has released the second in a series of reports on culture and diversity – Beyond the Metrics: Demonstrating and Assessing Diversity in Smaller Asset Managers.
Allocator due diligence increasingly focuses on aspects of culture and diversity within asset managers. Being able to compare this data across managers is critical but doing this based solely on metrics can put smaller managers at a disadvantage. This report provides solutions for how smaller managers can make their culture and diversity strategies effective and how allocators
Maitland Fund Services has replaced its existing transfer agency platform with T-Cube, offered by South African company, Zubat Nine, to support transfer agency services to its global client base.
T-Cube is a fast-growing system with not only transfer agency capability but also a retirement, product and employee benefits offering. Transfer agency is the function through which Maitland Fund Services handles shareholder purchases and sales of fund shares.
Maitland went live with T-Cube in early November with one of its asset manager clients. All other clients will be migrated onto the platform over the coming 12 months.
Increasingly frequent spikes in the VIX volatility index could offer hedge funds and other investment managers strong return opportunities amid the resulting equity market gyrations, new analysis published by Man Group suggests.
