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Broadridge has enhanced it revenue & expense management platform, which is used by hedge funds and asset managers, with the addition of a new forecasting module.
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Growth equity private investment firm FTV Capital has made a significant investment in hedge fund fund administrator and regulatory services provider Centaur Fund Services.
Guotai Junan International (GTJAI) has gone live with Finastra’s end-to-end equities derivatives trading and cross-asset risk solution, Fusion Sophis.The move has enabled GTJAI to launch trading operations in Hong Kong following a short implementation, helping to fuel the firm’s growth and maximise market share.
“We are committed to building a totally new platform in Hong Kong to cater for the needs of our clients for tailor-made OTC structured products and exchange-traded derivatives products, such as Warrants and Callable Bull/Bear Contracts,” says Henry Yu, Head of Financial Products, Wealth Management at GTJAI. “To make this venture a success, we wanted to
IHS Markit, a specialist in information, analytics and solutions, has enhanced its fixed income analytics in its Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) service in collaboration with Yieldbroker, a licensed electronic trading platform for Australian and New Zealand debt securities and derivatives.The alliance unites IHS Markit’s multi asset TCA tool, independent bond pricing and liquidity data with Yieldbroker’s six trillion of annual AUD and NZD market transaction volume. Together, these services offer customers sophisticated trade execution analytics and a broad spectrum of data to deliver more transparency in fixed income markets.
“This collaboration is a natural extension of our global, multi asset TCA
FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications, has launched US statutory insurance content from AM Best, a global credit rating agency, news publisher, and data analytics provider specialising in the insurance industry, across its distribution channels, including the FactSet workstation.“Market demand for more comprehensive industry-specific data is accelerating and expanding our offering is a key part of FactSet’s deep sector content strategy,” says Kristy Karnovsky, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research. “Insurance is one of the most sought-after areas, with AM Best the leader in the field. The integration of their content within FactSet provides
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global financial markets, has collaborated with Pure Storage to become the first managed service provider (MSP) to deliver all-NVMe, all-flash cloud to all capital markets.Built exclusively on Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) infrastructure from Pure Storage, this new solution allows Options’ customers to reliably store data at scale and access the information instantly across its global financial network. Customers can also more effectively deploy containerised environments, large-scale datasets and other low-latency applications.
Options’ Pure as-a-Service deployment will be integrated into the firm’s enterprise-grade network, comprised of 40-plus data centre sites worldwide. The first deployment
ARM Insight, a provider of actionable insights from financial data, has opened registrations for the upcoming launch of its Enlightmint research tool. Qualified equity analysts and portfolio managers may now register to be one of the first to take advantage of the insight provided through millions of consumer transactions across more than 1,600 companies and 430 tickers.
Enlightmint offers professionals in the asset management industry access to an intuitive SaaS-based visualisation tool composed of key business metrics informed by empirical card transactions. Dashboards can be self-tailored to reveal inflection points transaction trends for specific merchants and stock tickers or for specific
Japanese institutional investors now have access to a crypto-asset benchmark following the launch of the NRI/IU Crypto-Asset Index by MV Index Solutions (MVIS), and Intelligence Unit (IU), in partnership with Nomura Research Institute (NRI).
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OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for international institutional investors and academic researchers, launched its new IvyDB Signed Volume dataset at Europe EQD 2020 in Barcelona.
Stack, a provider of cryptocurrency trackers and index funds has launched an institutional grade bitcoin index fund in response to investor demand for controlled exposure to the high-yield potential of bitcoin globally.
The single-asset index fund expects to capture USD750 million in assets under management during 2020, and to surpass USD2 billion in 2021, tapping into the unmet demand for traditional investment vehicles in Asia’s digital asset space. Stack’s list of partners includes premiere financial services providers, BitGo, Silvergate Bank, and Coin Metrics for custodian, banking, and index solutions, respectively.
Matthew Dibb, Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of Stack, says:
