Solutions
Refinitiv has launched the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (The Alliance) in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, United Nations, IIF, OMFIF, Tsinghua University, ASIFMA, GFMA, Climate Bonds Initiative, FinTech4good, Everledger, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bank of Africa-BCME, GoImpact and other founding member firms. The objective of The Alliance is to accelerate the mobilisation of capital into sustainable finance. The Alliance will solve the question: What data do investors and governments need to meet the requirements of both regulators and customers for sustainable investments and products in pursuit of the 2030 Agenda.
The Alliance says: “Fundamental ESG data access
Digital Vega, an FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, has appointed Rob Wemyss as a Non Executive Director and Head of Business Development.Wemyss joins Digital Vega from JP Morgan where he was Global Head of FX Options. He worked at JP Morgan for 25 years in a variety of roles.
“During 2020 we aim to cement our leading position in multi-dealer FX Options trading by adding more liquidity providers and clients, increasing automation in our Vanillas platform and launching a new Exotics service,” says Mark Suter, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Digital Vega. “We are delighted
Bixby Research and Analytics, a fintech focused on information flow, has launched a web platform powered by Rightpoint technology, which connects asset managers and hedge funds to real-time market moving news and financial information for companies in the private debt market.Over the last several decades, the asset management industry has seen unprecedented advances in technology; however, when you step back and look at where this advancement is taking place, it’s been almost solely confined to the public market. Over the same time, private market information flow has remained antiquated with virtually no resources available to investment professionals.
“The market for
LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has reported record results for 2019 across all sales and client growth metrics tracked by the firm. This rapid growth was fuelled by a continued rise in demand for its
POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) platform, which provides significant cost, management and functionality benefits over the legacy platforms many investment managers currently employ.
LiquidityBook’s total revenues for 2019 were up 33 per cent year-over-year, fueled by steady client wins for each of the firm’s products: LBX Buy-Side, LBX Sell-Side and LBX Outsourced Trader. Recently, the firm signed multi-strategy
Bitfinex, a digital asset trading platform, has launched a sub-account feature that allows users of the exchange to set up multiple trading accounts within one master account. The addition of the sub-account feature meets institutional demand to deploy more complex crypto trading strategies.
The feature will enable users to create up to 100 subsidiary trading accounts under one master account, which retains full managerial control and the authority for sharing funds between accounts. Institutional traders, verified as corporate users, who wish to give different levels of access to employees within the same organisation can do so utilising the sub-account feature.
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Brodie Consultancy Group, a UK-based financial services marketing and communications consultancy, has launched with a focus on the alternative funds and commodity sectors.
The founder, Alastair Crabbe, is the former Global Head of Marketing and Communications at Marex Spectron and prior to that was the long-term Global Head of Marketing and Communications at Permal Group.
With extensive experience both in-house and also as a consultant at Maitland, where Crabbe advised many leading managers, Brodie Consultancy aims to help managers strengthen their brand, position their business and more effectively communicate with stakeholders. Its services range from client communications and factsheet design
Hedge fund clients now have direct access to their data through a new online portfolio reporting tool introduced by UMB Fund Services. The portal is intuitive yet comprehensive, providing hedge fund clients with the information they need to analyse investments.
Deaglo, a cross-border advisory firm that provides FX execution and risk management solutions to institutional investors, investment managers, multinational corporations and private clients, has launched. The firm says its aim is to ‘educate and empower CFOs to take control of their FX risk and manage their cross-border transactions more effectively’.
Ashley Groves, CEO & Founder, says: “Investors are increasingly looking overseas for deal making opportunities, yet in many cases don’t have the in-house expertise to quantify and manage their FX risk. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to managing these risks, which have beens by the banks, are opaque, cumbersome and expensive, and as
A new venture called Skytra has been launched by Airbus to develop highly regulated financial instruments and infrastructure to support the air travel industry’s risk management of its revenues.Skytra has developed a family of global and regional indices which track the daily changes in the price of air travel in each geographic market. Airline ticket prices change constantly due to a multitude of external factors including supply or demand surges, political issues, tax and economic uncertainty. Whilst airline infrastructure and operational commitments are planned years into the future, the vast majority of airline tickets are sold in the last five
The Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) now integrates with ChartIQ, enabling Charles River to provide institutional traders with visualisation tools that deliver greater insight into data affecting investment decisions. These capabilities help traders conduct pre-trade technical analysis, gauge in-trade market impact and better understand post-trade execution quality.
Charles River IMS combines an order management system (OMS) with multi-asset execution capabilities, creating a consolidated order and execution management system (OEMS). By integrating with solution providers like ChartIQ, the OEMS enables traders to work more productively at generating alpha, managing risk and helping inform their firm’s strategic investment decisions.
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