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Sentifi has launched new investment analytics to allow institutional investors to detect portfolio sentiment and market momentum in real-time, based on data from social media, news, and blogs.
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SmartStream Tecnologies has extended its Public API allowing clients to have direct programmatic access to the company’s TLM Collateral Management solution. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Wheelhouse Advisors, a specialist provider of services to the financial services sector, has launched following a private equity backed management buyout of the Financial & Regulatory Reporting and Tax divisions of ACA Compliance Group.The London-headquartered business has operated since the early 2000s, initially as the boutique firms HedgeStart and Sigma Partnership, before their merger as Cordium Accounting Limited. The incumbent management team has been bolstered by the addition of Louis Hunter as Finance Director to help drive strategic acquisitions.
Backed by private equity firm Pelican Capital, the 40-strong Wheelhouse Advisors team provides holistic solutions across disciplines to its clients, whether
International broker dealer Velocity Trade is to deploy FX technology provider Integral’s workflow automation and trading tech across its eFX and CFD trading network. Integral’s cloud technology offers Velocity Trade full automation and customisation of the eFX and CFD workflow, including sophisticated pricing and risk management tools, alongside a feature rich trading platform and mobile trading app which supports Velocity Trade’s suite of FX and CFD products.
Due to the high-level of configuration and full range of functionality available, Velocity Trade can maintain a tailored FX and CFD service to their institutional client base. As a cloud-based platform, Integral’s technology was
OpenGamma, a margin optimisation provider, is partnering with IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, to help mutual clients reduce the cost of margin management.
Deer Park Road is maintaining an aggressive short position in commercial mortgage backed securities as the market continues to fall because of lockdown. Although the Colorado-based structured credit manager, which was established by Michael Craig-Scheckman in 2003, expects to shift to a long position in CMBS when the right entry point emerges towards the end of the year, or in early 2021.
“Coming into 2020, we were fairly concerned with CMBS, in particular on the retail side,” comments Scott Burg, CIO and Portfolio Manager. “We went into the beginning of this year with a significant short position on the CMBX
Digital currency trading and lending specialist Genesis has acquired Vo1t, an insured digital custody service.
The Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM) has appointed Jeffrey Blockinger as its first Chief Executive Officer. Blockinger plans to broaden and deepen ADAM’s role in fostering fair and efficient digital asset markets where participants can transact with confidence.
Blockinger, an alternative investment fund industry veteran, is widely-respected for his advocacy with regulators and other key market participants on behalf of entrepreneurial asset managers. He has more than 20 years of experience structuring investment advisers, investment funds and broker-dealers while protecting their firms from legal risk.
He built out a global legal and compliance department as Chief Legal Officer for Och-Ziff
Ryan Willson, formerly the CEO of Lateef Investment Management, has joined Creighton AI as Partner & Head of North America to help build the firm’s business in the USA and Canada.Creighton AI (CAI) was founded by Jim Creighton, who has previously worked with Richard Brignoli and Harry Markowitz (Nobel Prize winner – Modern Portfolio Theory) on minimum variance excess growth strategies in Canada before going on to become global CIO of Barclays Global Investors, Deutsche Asset Management and Northern Trust.
Increasingly disappointed in the way Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning was being adopted by the investment community, Creighton decided to
Credit and EM debt offer attractive relative value trading opportunities, says BlueBay’s Kettle
Credit and EM debt offer attractive relative value trading opportunities, says BlueBay’s Kettle