Solutions
QuantCube Technology has launched the Hydric Stress Indicator, a new tool designed to help commodity traders, financial institutions, agricultural growers, and food producers to monitor drought risks in key crop-producing regions across 20 countries.
By Paul Palackel, Head of AlphaDesk, LSEG – In times of market volatility, hedge funds increasingly need to streamline processes end-to-end. Paul Palackel, Head of LSEG AlphaDesk at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), shares how their solution supports this effort. Their cloud-based system, named Order Management System of the Year at the 2024 Hedgeweek European Emerging Manager Awards, handles multi-asset, multi-currency order and portfolio management.
By Kyle Downey, Product Director, Talos – Crypto derivatives have emerged as a cornerstone of the digital asset ecosystem, becoming one of its fastest-growing areas. Instruments such as futures, perpetual swaps, and options now serve as essential tools for hedging, price discovery, and market participation.
ExtractAlpha, a provider of alternative data and analytics solutions to hedge funds and other asset managers, has acquired ESG Analytics, a platform offering real-time, actionable insights into environmental, social, and governance metrics.
Hedge funds are still spending too much time on spreadsheets despite the advanced technologies available to them, new global research by Beacon Platform shows. And they are incurring greater, and possibly unnecessary, risks by doing so.
In a bid to better streamline multi-asset post-trade processing and operational reporting, global fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions has added a GenAI-powered advanced analytics feature to its platform.
London-based institutional investment manager Fasanara Capital has launched its first tokenised Money Market Fund, the “Fasanara MMF Token” (“FAST”), held on the Polygon PoS public blockchain and developed in collaboration with Apex Group, Tokeny, Chainlink, Fireblocks, and XBTO.
Law firm Simmons & Simmons has launched a major update of LaunchPlus – its tool for hedge fund startups, which has been in operation since 2015 and helps new fund managers to navigate the complexities of establishing a hedge fund in the UK.
Code Willing has formed a strategic partnership with Exchange Data International (EDI) as part of the launch of its CWIQ Platform aimed at streamlining research workflows for hedge funds and other asset management firms.
Clearwater Analytics is set to acquire Enfusion, a SaaS provider for investment management and hedge funds, in a deal valued at approximately $1.5bn.
