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SimCorp, an independent provider of SaaS investment management solutions, has partnered with Qontigo, a provider of analytics and indices, and part of the Deutsche Börse Group.
The partnership offers SimCorp clients a fully managed portfolio optimisation and risk management and modelling service, within SimCorp Dimension. It is one of several portfolio optimisation and risk analytics partnerships that SimCorp will grow, to complement and enhance its own front office suite, with a choice of market-leading tools for alpha generation and decision making. The partnership forms an integral part of SimCorp’s Open Platform, designed to democratise access to industry innovation and simplify
By working with firms like FlexTrade, Appital is aiming to drive the technological infrastructure development necessary to integrate its platform into existing market structures and bring innovation and automation to equity capital markets.
Appital’s platform will be fully integrated with FlexTrade’s FlexTRADER EMS, bringing a historically manual order flow process to an automated platform. Through FlexTrade’s integration with Appital, buy-side firms will have access to the liquidity and efficiency of executing on Turquoise, LSEG’s (London Stock Exchange Group) pan-European MTF with seamless straight-through-processing (STP) to over 20 settlement venues. Sparked by demand from some of the largest asset management
Nasdaq has launched Nasdaq Data Link, a cloud-based technology platform that empowers all segments of the investing public with a comprehensive suite of core financial, fund and alternative data.
The platform connects the global financial community to the information needed to generate alpha, manage risk and gain transparency into public and private markets.
Nasdaq’s acquisition of Quandl in 2018 accelerated its vision to unify access to a broad portfolio of data and insights from across Nasdaq’s businesses and network of global partners, empowering users to efficiently discover and integrate market data and analytics for their investment strategies and financial
London-based digital assets hedge fund manager Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel) is planning to make the US one of its top priority markets, as new research reveals the potential for strong growth in the country.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a post-trade market infrastructure provider for the global financial services industry, has launched its Sponsored General Collateral (GC) Service, a new offering from its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary, where the first trades have been executed by BNY Mellon, Federated Hermes and JP Morgan Securities LLC.
The new Sponsored GC Service allows Sponsoring Members and their Sponsored Member Clients to submit triparty repo transactions executed on a general collateral basis across US Treasury securities, agency debentures and agency mortgage-backed securities collateral to central clearing. Users benefit from a reduction in operational and counterparty
Etrading Software (ETS), acting as exclusive Registration Authority for the new International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) standard ISO 24165 for Digital Token Identifiers (DTIs), and International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), the non-profit organisation aiming at setting market standards for the global token economy, have formed a new joint task force to identify potential synergies regarding the identification of digital tokens.
The Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF) was created by Etrading Software to provide ISO standard identifiers for digital assets based on open data principles. The joint task force is charged with identifying synergies in the issuance processes of both the
3forge, a specialist in real-time and historical data visualisation technology, has launched the industry’s first web-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aimed at accelerating and simplifying the creation of complex dashboards and workflows by bringing the entire process of development, debugging and deployment into a single, seamless interface.
CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, is launching two new datasets to capture outstanding forward and swap positions in the FX market, in addition to making enhancements to its existing suite of alternative FX data products – CLSMarketData.
The new FX outright forward outstanding and FX swap outstanding datasets enable users to improve their analysis of both short- and longer-term FX market trends to provide insight into market dynamics. Outstanding forward and swap position reports will be introduced on a daily basis, helping all market participants benefit from increased visibility into cash flow and directional positioning
Cairn Capital Group (Cairn Capital), supported by Mediobanca as its majority shareholder, has completed the acquisition and merger with Bybrook Capital (Bybrook).
Bybrook is a London-based specialist credit manager, focused on absolute value stressed/distressed debt and special situations in Europe. It has established an outstanding track record since inception. Bybrook currently manages approximately USD2.4 billion on behalf of top tier international institutional investors.
The merger creates a leading European-focused credit manager with global reach and proven track records across the credit spectrum. The combined firm has approximately USD9 billion of assets under management across leveraged finance, structured credit, special
Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform accessible through digital token trading platform Bitfinex, has launched perpetual contracts for Filecoin (FILF0:USTF0) and Avalanche (AVAXF0:USTF0).
FILF0:USTF0 and AVAXF0:USTF0 went live on 02/09/21 at 12:00 PM CET. The contracts offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in Tether tokens (USDt).
“We’re delighted to announce the addition of Filecoin and Avalanche to the growing portfolio of perpetual swaps available to trade on the exchange,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “We anticipate great interest in these products, particularly among funds and professional investors for hedging purposes and to manage risk.”
