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Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices is partnering with Lukka, a New York City-based crypto asset software and data company to launch global cryptocurrency asset indexes.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager
BMLL, an award-winning data and analytics provider, has joined IOWARocks fast-growing data owner community. This partnership means the BMLL advanced analytics data feed is now available to capital markets users via the IOWArocks marketplace. The BMLL Data Feeds cover venue analytics, trading costs, alternative pricing, pricing analytics and trading analytics.
BMLL Technologies provides advanced analytics on global market microstructure data and unlocks the predictive power of pricing data, giving clients the tools to improve their competitive edge. BMLL’s Data Feeds are pre-computed from the most granular, full depth order book data, providing market participants actionable insight on the markets they trade.
This is the third in a series of four articles from the DMS Client Solutions Team, bringing you a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by the shifting European regulatory landscape. In last week’s article Daniel Forbes explored explored the evolving landscape in Ireland for Fund Management. This week, David Morrissey (pictured), DMS Global Head of Client Solutions, offers his unique personal perspective on the evolution of the third party management company sector.
Greg Knapp has rejoined fund administrator Opus Fund Services as VP, Business Development. Based in Austin, Texas, Knapp has extensive experience in the fund administration space and has built very strong relationships in the fund services industry. He was previously with Opus from 2009-2015 and, after living in San Francisco for over 20 years, has recently relocated to Austin.
“We are very excited to welcome Greg back to Opus. As Opus continues to grow quickly, Greg is a natural fit as we seek to accelerate our organic growth and further the firm’s presence”, says Jorge Hendrickson, Chief Revenue Officer at Opus.
Specialist research firm RegTech Analyst has named Eventus Systems, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, to its global 2021 RegTech100 List. It’s the third consecutive year Eventus earned a place on the selective list of the world’s most innovative solution providers that address the challenges of regulatory pressures within financial services.
Eventus is one of 29 US regulatory technology (RegTech) companies to secure a spot on the list and among less than two dozen firms selected for three years running. The list this year highlights companies from 23 countries that are transforming compliance, risk
This year’s Covid-19 stock market upheaval has revealed an “Achilles’ heel” in quantitative hedge fund models that use traditional factors such as momentum and value, as machine-based strategies have struggled against “unique new drivers of stock returns that don’t fit the academic models”, says Man FRM.
2020 proved to be a “blow to the head” for factor-based quantitative equity analysis, Man FRM observed in its ‘Early View’ commentary on Wednesday.
Quant equity hedge funds which trade traditional factors have struggled amid the dominance of a new “Covid factor” this year, with “near-consistent disappointment” in the form of “losses at the
Prime Trust, a B2B financial infrastructure platform for payments, custody and settlement of alternative assets, has launched Prime Liquidity – a turnkey API-based liquidity engine that enables any fintech app to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrency.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Quant Insight Limited (Qi), a macro data and analytics firm, and AkinovA Limited (AkinovA), an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of insurance risk, have formed a partnership to enable the construction of new and more precise risk transfer products with an understanding of how a range of macro-economic risks such as climate change impact those transactions.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Blockchain platform CoreLedger is enabling Finka, a Swiss advisory firm, to create the first revenue-sharing token supported by the value of cattle held at Bolivian cattle ranch, La Pradera. This industry-first move opens of opportunities for traditional investors who are now able to access a previously unavailable asset class, one that provides stable returns and diversification to their investment portfolios.
“The tokenisation of the Finka Token is unique in that it has a built-in link to a secondary market within the CoreLedger platform, where holders can convert the token into other tradable assets – literally anything from gold to oil or
MackeyRMS, a provider of SaaS-based research management software built to give fundamental investment teams an easier way to create and share investment research in real time, has appointed Sheryl Hawk as VP, Customer Success.In this role, Hawk will lead the firm’s customer success team and oversee the expansion of its data-driven, client-centric initiatives to maximise the value the firm’s cloud-based research management platform delivers to fundamental investment teams seeking to maintain a complete and real-time view of their firm’s investment research. She will report to the CEO.
Hawk brings to Mackey nearly 25 years of experience working with SaaS
