Solutions
Suburbia, a technology company specialising in alternative data solutions, today launched its first-ever offering that leverages millions of anonymised transactions across Europe to provide predictive insights into consumer goods companies.
A multi-source platform with granular insights into brand performance, it delivers daily signals on over a hundred publicly listed and large private companies. This data product has been built specifically for hedge funds, asset managers and other institutional investors to generate alpha and manage risk.
“Investors have long been tapping into transactional data to anticipate trends and consumer behaviour,” says Hamza Khan (pictured), CEO, Suburbia. “But we realised most of
Genesis, a specialist in digital currency trading and lending, has acquired the assets of Qu Capital, a New York-based quantitative investment and research firm.
Founded in 2017, Qu Capital has developed trading technology including faster exchange connectivity, improved order routing, and advanced execution tools, and conducted quantitative research on the digital currency market. Qu Capital was co-founded by Alex Price, Lucas Schuermann, and Edward Yu, who met at Columbia University.
“We have been very impressed with the Qu Capital team and believe they will provide key technology enhancements that will benefit our trading and lending clients,” says Michael Moro,
Powernext, part of EEX Group which belongs to Deutsche Börse, held the first auction of Guarantees of Origin (GO) for the French State on 18 September, 2019.
In August 2018, the French Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition appointed Powernext as the operator of this auction system, and in addition extended Powernext’s mandate to operate the national registry for GOs in France. The volume of GOs put up for sale by the DGEC will vary depending on the production generated by the plants benefiting from a support mechanism. The DGEC indicated that, for auctions held between September and December,
SILEX Investment Managers, a Paris-based asset management company, has chosen Broadridge’s integrated order management, portfolio management and risk management technology platform to help the company manage its front-, middle- and back-office investment operations.
SILEX will deploy Broadridge’s investment operations platform to manage its portfolios, enabling it to streamline and automate workflow around an array of traded instruments. Introducing these capabilities will help SILEX meet its pre- and post-trade compliance requirements while providing seamless connectivity to brokers and execution platforms. It will facilitate effective portfolio management as well as reporting for clients. In addition, SILEX will be able to conduct full
R5 Capital has launched as the 17th independent research provider (IRP) on Analyst Hub, a platform serving more than 200 institutional investors.
R5 Capital is a boutique consumer-centric equity research and consulting firm focused on utilising proprietary data and significant “boots on the ground” analysis to identify unique investment opportunities and provide strategic advice for companies.
Chief Executive Officer and founder Scott Mushkin, who is brings more than 25 years of buy-side and sell-side experience to the firm with a particular focus on food retailing.
Mushkin has held senior positions at Lehman Brothers, Jefferies and Bank of America
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) and Bloomberg have formed a strategic alliance that further integrates BNY Mellon’s data, analytics, and servicing capabilities with AIM, Bloomberg’s portfolio management, trading and compliance solution.
The new connectivity streamlines data delivery between the two firms and enables clients to access BNY Mellon’s data and analytical workflow tools directly through Bloomberg AIM, delivering unique capabilities and insights to investors, technology leaders, and risk and operations professionals.
These integrated solutions, available today, will benefit clients across many core processes along the investment lifecycle. With automated connectivity and standardised data delivery between
GoldenTree Asset Management (GoldenTree) has implemented Hazeltree Collateral Manager to manage daily collateral calls.
Hazeltree Collateral Manager provides GoldenTree with a comprehensive view of derivative positions with counterparties, as well as analytics and collateral automation algorithms to manage collateral positions and address margin call discrepancies.
Hazeltree Collateral Manager enables GoldenTree to:
• Centrally manage counterparty agreements to minimize operational headaches;
• Compare and reconcile internal, independently calculated OTC collateral call estimates against each counterparty’s calculated calls to manage and reduce capital required to support derivative positions;
• Seamlessly respond to, issue, or dispute daily margin calls
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, has partnered with Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, to distribute its data and deliver complementary new data solutions.
The agreement involves the distribution of EDI’s high quality and comprehensive worldwide corporate actions, security reference data, and global end-of-day pricing.
Vela’s strong market data solutions, including real-time streaming data, combined with EDI’s extensive reference data enables clients to receive customised data sets based on specific geographical, instrument or event type requirements as well as access
Fairgreen Capital, a London-based manager of market-neutral equity strategies, has launched its investment operations on Eze Eclipse.
Northern Trust has launched a range of new client dashboards for Omnium, its middle- and back-office technology platform for alternative fund administration.
Designed to provide clients with greater transparency into workflows and metrics critical to efficient fund management, the web-based dashboards exemplify Northern Trust’s commitment to solutions that support alternative investment managers.
Omnium client dashboards feature a streamlined interface to enhance the user experience and are optimised for mobile devices to provide key decision makers with real-time, on-demand access to their portfolio information wherever they might be. Additional features include interactive data visualisation capabilities, readily accessible static reports and
