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Coleman Research, a global provider of primary research, has appointed Isaak Karaev to the newly created role of Executive Chairman.
“With the launch last year of our SaaS platform, Coleman Exchange, digital strategy is taking on a key role in our future direction, as we look to not only provide professional services as an expert network, but also empower our customers to manage their own networks with our SaaS solutions,” says Kevin Coleman, CEO of Coleman Research. “Isaak has the right combination of technology expertise and commercial acumen to deliver bold solutions that meet the needs of our clients for
BGC Partners, has launched Fenics Global Options (Fenics GO) an electronic trading and market data generation platform involving the arrangement and execution of exchange listed futures and options.
Fenics GO, in collaboration with industry leading liquidity providers Optiver, IMC and Maven Securities, launches Eurex listed Euro Stoxx 50 Index Options and related Delta 1 strategies allowing global traders to access liquidity electronically and anonymously, whilst being fully integrated into the Eurex workflow to enable seamless front to back processing of cleared trades.
Fenics GO is a fully electronic marketplace that combines complementary protocols to enable the dynamic work-up of multiple trading
FlexTrade’s broker-neutral EMS, FlexTRADER, has extended its integration with thinkFolio, IHS Markit’s cross-asset investment management platform.
Combining IHS Markit and FlexTrade’s expertise in the execution and order management system space provides sophisticated and global cross-asset trading capabilities delivered seamlessly across the entire trading lifecycle.
“This is good news,” says Mark Denny, Head of Trading – Global Equities, at Investec Asset Management. “We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary with FlexTrade this year and having thinkFolio closely aligned with FlexTRADER is a powerful workflow benefit to us in terms of scalability and simplifying software upgrades.”
“A certified interface between thinkFolio
Following the directives of the Energy and Climate Authority (DGEC), Powernext has published information about renewable energy consumed in France in 2018.
According to its obligation toward the Energy and Climate Authority (Direction Direction Générale de l’Energie et du Climat or DGEC) relative to the tracking of renewable energy, Powernext, as the National Registry for electricity guarantees of origin, is publishing the French residual mix and releasing information about the consumption of renewable energy in France.
108.7 TWh of the 548.6 TWh of electricity produced in France in 2018 originated from renewable sources (63.1 TWh from hydroelectricity, 27.8 TWh from
Vistra, a global trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, has launched its Economic Substance Services and Solutions, starting with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Economic Substance Classification Questionnaire designed to help clients determine the classification of their BVI company as it applies to the substance legislation.
Developed by Vistra’s in-house legal team, the BVI Economic Substance Classification Questionnaire is an efficient and effective service for any BVI entity to gain clarity on their status, supported by detailed analysis and tailored solutions.
Simon Filmer, Global Lead, Company Formation, Vistra, says: “It is now mandatory for all BVI entities to comply
Eze Eclipse, SS&C Eze’s front-to-back office investment management platform, has signed on more than 70 hedge fund clients.
Eze Eclipse, a born-in-the-cloud platform, has been adopted by hedge funds looking to expand their business capabilities, optimise operational efficiency and minimise total cost of ownership. Recent upgrades include automatic requests for locates, flexible charting of accounts to match trial balance/general ledger with multiple administrators, enhanced reconciliation, streamlined swap templates, custom equity basket support and commission tracking.
“Start-up funds tend to run lean, so it’s very important to find partners that you trust and give you the attention that you need.
Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has expanded its direct streams capabilities in on-the-run (OTR) US Treasuries.
During the second quarter of 2019, Tradeweb reached a new high for average daily volume (ADV) for Treasuries in direct streams as client trading activity more than quadrupled year over year. New functionality and capabilities introduced by Tradeweb will continue to simplify and streamline access to prices for clients including dealers, market makers, proprietary trading firms (PTFs) and institutional investors.
Direct streams offer access to competitive prices at potentially greater size while limiting
TriOptima, an infrastructure service that aims to lower costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, has completed the first cleared inflation swap compression run at LCH SwapClear.
The compression run was completed on 19 July with Euro cleared inflation swaps being compressed through the triReduce service. TriOptima will go live with Sterling and US Dollar cleared inflation swaps compression in LCH SwapClear imminently.
In order to manage capital pressures, clients for the first time can ‘co-mingle’ cleared inflation swaps with vanilla swaps by leveraging the new triReduce low touch compression service. Launched in late 2018, low touch compression was
Avelacom, a global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has added Gemini Trust Company, a digital asset exchange and custodian, to its list of cryptocurrency exchange tech vendors in Equinix’s NY5 data centre.
The partnership will support both firms’ clients by providing increased connectivity options to Gemini.
With this new partnership Avelacom’s clients, including those who are already Gemini clients, can connect directly to the exchange’s infrastructure to access market data and order routing via FIX protocol – the global standard for professional traders and institutions in crypto markets.
All Gemini clients will also benefit from
BTIG is expanding its Prime Brokerage platform with a dedicated effort to service family offices. In a newly-created role, Concetta Mastrangelo, Senior Vice President, BTIG Prime Brokerage, will lead the enhanced family offices effort.
Family offices have become a fast-growing segment within the alternative investment industry. Many of these families are self-directing their investments in both the public and private markets and partnering with reliable counterparties including Prime Brokers to improve operational efficiencies within their businesses. By building out a specialised team, BTIG is strengthening the resources available to this important segment of the market.
BTIG’s prime business is led
