Solutions
ACA Compliance Group (ACA), a provider of governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions, has launched ComplianceAlpha 2.0.
This ‘next-generation’ risk and compliance management platform helps global financial services firms stay one step ahead of regulators’ increasingly advanced technological capabilities to detect insider trading, market abuse, and other potential misconduct.
The enhanced platform was designed and developed by the industry’s largest team of former regulators, financial technologists, and cybersecurity professionals.
Jordan Schwartz, Partner at ACA, says: “To effectively and efficiently meet regulatory demands and identify risk, financial services firms no longer have to rely on manual processes and unconnected data sources. Firms need
Style Analytics, a specialist in factor style analysis for investment professionals, has launched a Managed Services solution for qualified asset owners, called ‘Factors as a Service’, providing full support for data management and the building of factor style reports.
Asset Owners are increasingly looking at factor exposures as an integral part of their due diligence, manager selection and monitoring processes and Style Analytics’ factor reporting gives asset owners the ability to do so in all stages of these processes. Factors explain the sources of a fund’s returns and risk and are increasingly used by asset managers and asset owners around
Charles River Development and Tradeweb Markets, an operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets today announced an expansion of their collaboration to provide mutual clients with direct access to fixed income inventory and streamlined workflows from the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS).
The collaboration enables institutional and retail investment firms to seamlessly source cross product liquidity available on Tradeweb from the Charles River Inventory Hub and Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) for global fixed income securities.
Enhancing this longstanding collaboration will allow clients to benefit from enriched pre-trade inventory, the certification
Intercontinental Exchange, an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, and MSCI, a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community, have expanded their existing relationship to include a long-term extension of ICE’s existing license agreement for listed futures based on MSCI Indexes.
In addition, MSCI will license ESG data to ICE Data Services for index construction, while ICE Data Services’ leading fixed income pricing and reference data will be integrated into MSCI’s platform.
“MSCI’s equity indexes are among the most widely used globally, and the index futures
Options, a provider of colocation services for trading firms, today announced the deployment of next generation market data monitoring from Ixia, a Keysight business.
The deployment of TradeVision at Options’ core data centre locations in Mahwah, NY4, NJ2, Carteret, and Aurora will provide automated alerting across hundreds of multicast feeds, reducing the complexity and resources needed to detect and resolve data packet issues as they occur.
With more than 1,300 feeds and pre-programmed support for hundreds of trading venues worldwide, TradeVision delivers a unique combination of advanced network visibility and market data monitoring. Options currently operates more than forty
Duet Group (Duet) has selected global single-source financial solutions provider, Apex Group Ltd. (Apex), to deliver full depositary and fund administration services for their liquid Africa strategies.
Duet is a global investment holding company, founded in 2002, and a controlling shareholder of multiple asset managers, including Duet Private Equity, Emerging Markets Investment Management, Duet Alternative Investments, Merit Capital, and the Group’s centralised service company Hill Street Limited. Since its inception, the firm has developed an established portfolio of products with liquid funds including Frontier Markets Equity, Multi-Strategy and Global Event Driven. The mandate is for Apex to provide full depositary
Stableton Financial (Stableton), a European platform for Alternative Investments, and securitisation specialist GENTWO are entering into a strategic cooperation.
The goal of the cooperation between the two Swiss-based companies is to provide bankable and customised access to sophisticated alternative assets across liquid alternatives, private debt, private equity, and real estate. The particular focus is on underlyings which were previously not available to financial intermediaries and their clients due to the difficult access and non-bankable form. Current solutions include alternative equity, market-neutral strategies, managed futures, volatility and tail-hedge, alternative lending, value-added real estate, and selected startups for a broader audience.
Broadridge Financial Solutions, is working with FundsLibrary, a provider of digital fund data and regulatory solutions, to develop a new offering for European wealth and asset managers to address the challenges posed by MiFID II Ex-Post Costs and Charges and Solvency II.
New rules around MiFID II’s ex-post disclosure have introduced greater transparency for investors and have also generated unprecedented scrutiny on the costs and charges that wealth and asset managers impose on their clients. In the initial phase of MiFID2 Article 50, more than 1,300 firms informed the Financial Conduct Authority of inaccuracies in their reporting.
Solvency II
Crystal Capital Partners has rolled out a new proprietary e-commerce portfolio construction platform that aims to make building institutional private equity and hedge fund portfolios as simple as adding items to an online shopping cart.
Advisors can select from a diverse list of vetted institutional private equity and hedge fund exposures across various strategies, add them to their cart and, within seconds, generate an institutional-quality portfolio proposal for client presentations.
“With 25 years at the forefront of alternative investing, it is our ongoing commitment to remove the complexities and barriers to entry associated with the asset class and to smoothly pave
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has added to its market data portfolio by becoming a Vendor of Record for Euronext Derivatives Market Data.
TNS’ new fully managed Euronext Derivatives Market Data service allows financial market participants to lower the cost of accessing Euronext’s extensive range of derivatives and fixed income assets. It can also be extended to provide equities market data if required.
“TNS’ low-latency, high-capacity connectivity provides optimal market data delivery,” says Stefano Durdic, Managing Director of TNS’ Financial Services business. “We simplify the process of obtaining Euronext Derivatives Market Data and can, at the same time, help customers
