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Maritime technology and regulatory compliance firm, Pole Star has partnered with global trade finance technology provider TradeIX, to bring Pole Star’s multi award winning PurpleTRAC regulatory technologies to the Marco Polo Network. Developed in conjunction with companies facing regulatory exposure in maritime trade and shipping, the PurpleTRAC sanctions compliance screening and vessel tracking solution will enable users to automate, streamline and record their regulatory processes. Making PurpleTRAC available on the R3 Corda network will provide a single point solution for automated vessel sanctions screening, vessel tracking and risk management. This solution will be fully customisable to any user’s risk requirements and
As the digital currency market matures, a new crypto hedge fund, Circle Fund, has emerged — the first to be compliant in Asia. The company behind Circle Fund has more than five years of experience in both the primary and secondary blockchain industry markets and has a team of investors with decades of experience in securities, commodity, and currency trading. The global team has a presence in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and New York.
Circle Fund’s team of investors works with parties in the Chinese and American markets, such as high-volume exchanges, media companies, and blockchain and venture capital investment managers. Circle
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for international institutional investors, including quant traders and hedge fund managers, as well as academic researchers, has made significant updates to its IvyDB US options database, offering even greater accuracy across a broader range of data points.The industry standard for comprehensive historical option pricing, IvyDB US provides clean and reliable historical data on over 10,000 underlying stocks and indices for every day since January 1996. It enables quants, hedge fund managers, and others to back-test trading strategies, evaluate risk models, and perform sophisticated research on derivatives trading.
New updates in IvyDB US 4.0 include:
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Truss Edge, a specialist technology platform for ETF and hedge fund operations, has announced the latest update to its Safari platform.Safari grew out of the operational and reporting needs of a large macro hedge fund, and now serves the middle and back office automation requirements of both hedge funds and ETFs.
The new release for Safari includes a number of features that will improve the efficiency and user experience for fund managers.
Managing oversight reporting requires that Safari sends information to recipients on a regular and often continuous basis. The new feature continues to improve the flexibility for
BNP Paribas Securities Services has extended its license for Temenos Multifonds Global Accounting and Temenos Multifonds Global Investor. Temenos’ single, global software platform and integrated operating model will deliver localised accounting and reporting to underpin the management of BNP Paribas Securities Services’ fund administration operations.
BNP Paribas Securities Services has been a partner of Temenos for more than 20 years, initially deploying the Temenos Fund Administration platform in Luxembourg to replace its legacy architecture and deliver the fundamental scalability needed for BNP Paribas to rapidly onboard new countries onto the global platform. By using a scalable platform and enabling more automated
Integral (www.integral.com), a provider of forex market technology for banks, brokers, and asset managers, has reported average daily volumes (ADV) across its platforms os USD36.3 billion in December 2019.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased the volume on the Power Derivatives Market by 32 per cent year-on-year in December 2019 to 360.3 TWh (December 2018: 273.7 TWh).
The volume in Spanish power futures rose by 69 per cent year-on-year to 23.8 TWh (December 2018: 14.1 TWh), which corresponds to the highest monthly value in 2019 and a new record volume (previous record 15.7 TWh in Nov’19). EEX also achieved significant volume increases in power futures for France (43.0 TWh, +45 per cent) and Germany (208.7 TWh, +31 per cent) as well as in the power markets for Central and
Due diligence specialist Castle Hall, has launched DiligenceExpress, a completely free of charge service enabling investors, asset managers and industry service providers to review and monitor diligence information on more than 19,000 registered investment advisors and 62,000 private funds.
Part of Castle Hall’s next generation DiligenceHub online app, DiligenceExpress offers manager and private fund data sourced from Form ADV submissions filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Data is fully comprehensive, with no restrictions as to the scope or volume of data presented for registered users.
The service provides sxtensive profiles of each Registered Investment Advisor and every
The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) is set to provide real-time market data feed from 23 March 2020 simultaneously with the introduction of continuous trading on Taiwan’s stock market, which currently adopts the call auction trading method during trading hours.
TAIFEX has implemented continuous trading since 2002, and existing data feed disseminates a snapshot of prices and volumes of the best five bids and asks every 125 milliseconds (or 8 times a second). Starting from March 2020, market participants and information vendors can choose to connect to the new real-time data feed or the existing feed, depending on their diverse needs.
To facilitate
MacKay Municipal Managers (MacKay), the municipal bond team of MacKay Shields, is to employ Artivest’s open-architecture digital platform to bring its alternative solutions to financial advisors and qualified high-net-worth investors.
“Our relative-value, research-driven approach to investing in municipal bonds is designed to bring investors healthy after-tax income over the long term,” says Robert DiMella, CFA and John Loffredo, CFA, Co-Heads of MacKay. “At a time when the present market is dominated by low yields and negative rates, we are glad to work with Artivest to bring advisors and qualified investors a number of sophisticated fixed-income solutions which strive to potentially
