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Aon and eVestment have formed a strategic partnership to provide operational due diligence (ODD) research through the eVestment platform, recognising the need for more transparency and standardisation of ODD information.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Bequant, a global digital assets services firm, has been granted in-principle approvals by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) to operate both a prime brokerage and exchange.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Nisbah Capital, the blockchain subsidiary of Saudi Arabia-based Taibah Valley, will join the Tezos ecosystem as a ‘corporate baker’, the first in the Middle East region. It has also added the Tezos blockchain to its blockchain lab projects as part of an initiative to create the biggest blockchain community in the MENA region to support commercialised applications, counselling, mentoring and researching in the areas related to blockchain and cryptocurrency.
In addition, through its subsidiary, Nisbah Capital, Taibah Valley has also become the first corporate entity in the Kingdom to participate in the Tezos ecosystem as a corporate baker, meaning that it
Options Technology, a provider of IT infrastructure to global capital markets firms backed by Abry Partners, is ti acquire Fixnetix, a DXC Technology Company. Financial terms of the transactions, which is expected to close during the first half of this calendar year, have not been disclosed.
Fixnetix provides outsourced front-office trading services to investment banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and exchanges worldwide and is part of DXC’s global banking and capital markets business, which delivers strategic, mission-critical IT solutions for its customers.
“We are excited to partner with Fixnetix and continue bringing to market exceptional quality of service and leading technology solutions,” says
North Reef Capital Management, a long/short equity fund adviser, has selected SS&C Technologies’ (SS&C) front-to-back office solution to run its operations.
By Leanne Golding and Kevin Huys (pictured) – 2020 was a year unlike any in recent memory. We experienced ongoing disruptions to daily life due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ongoing tension surrounding the US election and a number of severe weather events. In the Cayman Islands, 2020 was also a very eventful year for regulatory and legal changes in the alternative investment industry. For those of you who were understandably distracted by other things, here’s a recap of the most significant changes affecting alternative investment funds which occurred over the past year.
A successful and long-established insurance recovery practice, led by policyholder advocate Robin Cohen, is launching its own law firm. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering unparalleled trading insights and analysis, has launched the Tickeron Time Machine (TMM) for AI Screener. The screener is a unique back-testing tool. It uses previously successful market settings to predict the conditions that led to present trends.Existing screeners allow users to compile setups and filters for today’s market conditions only. There are no available screeners which can compile filters for a given point in the past. The problem with such creation of filters for the past is the inability to maintain the database with pre-calculated market conditions for the last several years.
Sudrania Fund Services Corp (Sudrania), a cloud-computing enabled fund administrator, has acquired the primary assets of Triple Leo Consulting (TLC), a Philadelphia-based fund administrator that specialised in crypto and digital assets fund administration. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
TLC founder Mike Quinn joins Sudrania in an advisory role and TLC’s entire staff has joined Sudrania’s growing team. This acquisition makes Sudrania a global market leader in digital assets fund administration with over 150 clients dedicated to crypto assets.
Sudrania’s clients in the crypto and digital assets space utilize Seamless Crypto, a full-scale cloud-based, fund administration platform designed specifically
Refinitiv is to launch the Refinitiv Term SONIA benchmark on 11 January, 2021. This follows the previous announcement in July 2020 that Refinitiv would launch the prototype version of the same rate.
Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
