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The Super ManCo will provide fully-fledged and flexible management company solutions for all investment strategiesDuff & Phelps, a provider of governance, risk and transparency solutions, as been authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) and Undertakings Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Management Company (Super ManCo) in Ireland.
The Super ManCo will complement a range of existing services provided by Duff & Phelps and will offer a financially robust, independent and economically viable solution, including an independent risk function, to support ongoing management of regulated funds.
With the full scope of AIFMD
TradingScreen (TS), an all asset class execution and order management system (EOMS), and Imagine Software, a provider of portfolio and risk management solutions, have enhanced their long-standing partnership to deliver a full front-to-back office trading solution to the buy-side.The extended partnership offers hedge funds and asset managers the dual benefits of TradingScreen’s trade EOMS, coupled with Imagine’s real-time, cross-asset position management, risk analytics, and regulatory compliance platform.
By standardising implementation and simplifying deployment of the combined technology, a wider range of investment managers can benefit from the partnership. The breadth of the asset class coverage and the integration of two
Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent provider of advanced execution algorithms and data-driven analytics for global futures and interest rate markets, has marked the 10th anniversary of its first trade execution. Since inception in 2010, QB has risen to become a premiere fintech institution providing execution algorithms across fixed-income, futures, and most recently adding options. With a suite of seven algorithms, four offices worldwide, and over 60 employees, QB serves clients including many of the world’s biggest asset managers, hedge funds, CTAs, global banks, public and private companies.
Founded by Chief Scientist Dr. Robert Almgren and Chief Executive Officer Christian Hauff, QB
From the historic stock market sell-off and volatility surge that wreaked havoc on investment portfolios during March to the continued working-from-home practices which have thrown up various operational obstacles spanning technology, cybersecurity and infrastructure, the coronavirus crisis has upended all corners of the hedge fund industry.
For hedge fund chief operating officers, the pandemic has brought its own unique set of challenges. Managers of all sizes and strategies implemented extensive business contingency plans for home working in order to continue operations. But as firms slowly begin to return to the office following more than four months of lockdown, the concept
Avelacom, a high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has completed a new route between Sao Paulo, Brazil, and New York, USA. The route offers the new, fastest speed for the transmission of market data and trade execution between North American and Latin American major financial markets.
The route connects two Avelacom’s points-of-presence (PoPs): between Brazilian exchange group (B3) colocation facilities and Carteret, New Jersey, the data centre for Nasdaq. The latency has been improved on this route to 103.5 milliseconds (round-trip delay).
Increased trading volumes and market volatility means this route fits perfectly
Hong Kong-based hedge fund Long Corridor Asset Management has selected Bare Cove Technology Limited (BCT) as its software development and IT automation partner.
Binance has added to broad variety of derivatives with the launch of Perpetual Futures contracts margined with bitcoin, and with leverage of up to 125x.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Management…
MPMF Fund Management (Ireland) Limited (MPMF), the Maples Group’s alternative investment fund manager and UCITS management company, has announced a series of technology enhancements in response to evolving client demands and regulatory requirements.
The new systems infrastructure includes a blend of proprietary applications as well as industry-leading market technologies to support the delivery of MPMF’s innovative solutions for alternative investment and UCITS funds.
Since coming into full effect, the AIFMD and UCITS directives have posed significant challenges to fund managers and investors, mandating compliance with new and extensive authorisation and ongoing operational and transparency requirements. With a spate of
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has expanded its strategic partnership with IPC, a global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the global financial markets. The partnership will provide IPC customers with access to Vela’s award-winning market data solution, SuperFeed, via Connexus Cloud, IPC’s flagship financial ecosystem that interconnects more than 6,600 capital market participants across the globe. It will also enable IPC customers, utilising Connexus Labs, to access an on-demand market data solution to support trading application testing along with third-party product evaluations.
Vela’s SuperFeed is a
IDEX, a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange (DEX), has secured a USD2.5 million seed investment led by G1 Ventures and Borderless Capital, including Collider Ventures, and Gnosis, to launch IDEX 2.0, a high-performance DEX. The new exchange will combine the speed and features of a centralised exchange (CEX) with the security of a DEX.
Historically, DEXs have lacked liquidity compared to their centralised counterparts, primarily because their design is not compatible with the software and strategies of the largest market makers and liquidity providers. High-latency, driven by on-chain execution, has made it impossible for market makers to quote deep liquidity at tight spreads,
