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Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services has rebranded as Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) following the completion of its management buyout from Moody’s Corporation, supported by the European mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone).
Acuity, a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and automation technology to the financial services sector, has also appointed Philip Gore-Randall as Non-Executive Chairman.
Under its new brand identity and with Equistone’s backing, Acuity will continue to provide market-leading customised knowledge services to a growing, blue-chip client base of over 300 financial services firms globally, in domains such as investment banking, investment research, private equity &
Intercontinental Exchange is to aunch a new exchange, ICE Futures Abu Dhabi (IFAD), to host the world’s first futures contracts based on Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) Murban crude oil.
On 4 November, 2019, Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) announced that it would implement a new pricing mechanism for ADNOC’s Murban crude. As a result, Murban pricing will move from a retroactive official selling price to market-driven, forward pricing using a Murban futures contract as its price marker. The SPC also authorised ADNOC to remove destination restrictions on Murban crude sales. With the support of ADNOC, the Murban
BitGo, a specialist in digital asset financial services, has launched the first institutional-grade wallet and custody solutions, providing on-chain, multi-signature security for TRON’s TRX token. TRON will also be using BitGo as its custodian.
“BitGo is a trailblazer and well-known marker of quality for the digital assets industry,” says Justin Sun, CEO, TRON. “Together we are manifesting the next chapter of blockchain and financial services. We are proud of this partnership and the value it will provide to the entire industry.”
BitGo enables businesses to integrate digital assets into their investment portfolios securely and at scale with 100 per cent
BEQUANT, a cryptocurrency exchange with prime brokerage services, is partnering with Avelacom, a global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider; to provide crypto currency market participants with faster access to BEQUANT’s market infrastructure via Avelacom’s low latency network.
Through this initiative BEQUANT’s colocation facilities and connectivity footprint globally will be increased through a point-to-point fibre in Equinix’s LD4 data centre, providing proximity and lowest latency connections between both companies’ networks.
In turn, this will provide BEQUANT’s professional trading clients, including investment banks, hedge funds and other proprietary traders using the most demanding algorithmic strategies with more colocation and connectivity options
KRM22, a technology and software investment company that focuses on risk management for capital markets, has partnered with deltaconX, a provider of regulatory reporting services for European financial-, energy- and commodity trading organisations.
The deltaconX SaaS-based service, which will be available through KRM22’s Global Risk Platform, enables firms to meet regulatory reporting requirements including EMIR, FinfraG, SFTR, MiFIR and MiFID II, and REMIT. The application simplifies the reporting process through automation and dynamic error handling, minimising manual work and the likelihood of human error.
Saeed Patel, Director of Product Strategy at KRM22, says: “With a rise in the number
Hong Kong is increasing its efforts to formally regulate cryptocurrency exchanges in the city.
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has released a newly drafted regulatory framework, which allows the securities watchdog to issue licenses to crypto trading platforms.
In 2018, the SFC announced a regulatory sandbox providing a confined environment for fintech companies to explore regulatory innovations and frameworks. At the latest HK FinTech Week, Ashley Alder, head of the SFC announced that the city’s securities watchdog has now established a new comprehensive set of regulations for cryptocurrency exchanges in Hong Kong.
The rules are focused on
Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialsing in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has launched DrawbridgeConnect-R, a Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) platform.
DrawbridgeConnect-R continuously analyses a firm’s vulnerabilities – rather than providing a mere point in time vulnerability assessment – and helps firms identify, prioritise and remediate organizational cybersecurity weaknesses that leave data at risk. Complementing Drawbridge Partners’ existing services offering, DrawbridgeConnect-R enables firms with limited in-house cybersecurity resources to manage both external and internal vulnerabilities associated with client networks.
With DrawbridgeConnect-R, companies are equipped with:
• Vulnerability Scanning: Ongoing
European equities clearing house EuroCCP is to begin clearing trades executed on Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (FWB), the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, from 11 November, 2019.
EuroCCP’s clearing services are now available on a preferred CCP basis for trades in cash equities and ETFs executed on Xetra for the first time.
EuroCCP has long advocated the benefits of open access and increased interoperability amongst European clearing houses. With the addition of FWB, EuroCCP has extended its clearing access to over 95 per cent of cash equity trades executed on organised markets in Europe.
Cécile Nagel, CEO, EuroCCP, says: “Open access and
Match-Trade Technologies, a Forex and crypto turnkey technology provider. Has launched Match-Trader, 3in1, a trading platform for MT4/MT5.
The new platform offered to brokers consists of web, mobile and desktop applications which make it a universal tool. It was designed to work in MT4/5 environment as well as a stand-alone trading system with its own backend infrastructure. The developers made sure that each broker can easily add Match-Trader’s web and mobile components to its MetaTrader platform to boost clients’ trading experience.
Match-Trader platform can be purchased currently as an addition to the MT4/MT5 White Label, soon it will be available
CAIS, a technology platform connecting financial advisers with alternative investments, has launched CAIS IQ, a learning system designed to help financial advisers master alternative investments.
CAIS IQ reduces the alternative investment learning curve by combining expert content with predictive algorithms that adapt to how each individual adviser learns best.
According to a Preqin report, 84 per cent of investors plan to increase their allocation to alternative investments in the coming years, while a remarkable 67 per cent of financial advisers say they want to deepen their understanding of these strategies prior to implementing them.
“Right now, education is the biggest
