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HPR (Hyannis Port Research), a provider of capital markets infrastructure (CMI) technologies, has launched CRM-X, the newest version of its Central Risk Manager (CRM).
CRM-X provides a real-time, pan-regional view of risk that encompasses all equities markets globally, solving one of the most significant operational challenges faced by global banks and trading firms, who typically manage operations via regional silos.
Anthony Amicangioli (pictured), Founder and CEO of HPR, says: “A unified, global, pre-, at- and post-trade risk management system has long been an aspirational goal of the industry’s most sophisticated brokers and trading entities. CRM-X will enable firms to ‘follow
A global financial compliance firm is expanding its cybersecurity service targeted towards the financial services sector, following new advice from the European Supervisory Authorities.
Lawson Conner wants to encourage financial services firms to treat cybersecurity as a compliance issue, and it offers cyber risk management, tailored towards the financial sector, as one of its services.
Last week ESAs called for an appropriate oversight framework to monitor the activities of critical third-party service providers and streamlining of the incident reporting frameworks across the financial sector. The advice also urged financial services firms to focus on cyber resilience, and proposed an EU-wide, voluntary
INTL FCStone’s subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial (INTL), has launched a prime brokerage division, offering multi-asset prime brokerage, execution, outsourced trading, custody, and self-clearing and introduced clearing services for hedge funds, mutual funds, and family offices.
The prime brokerage division will offer a flexible platform to more effectively execute trades, custody, and clearing for US and global equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), and fixed income through INTL FCStone. Institutional clients will also benefit from INTL FCStone’s full range of financial services and products within the securities, commodities, derivatives, FX, global payments, and wealth management sectors.
Douglas Nelson, Managing Director and
OKEx, a Malta-based digital asset exchange, has launched Cosmos (ATOM), a Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrency based on the Tendermint consensus protocol, on its spot trading market.
With a total supply of 236,355,290 ATOM, deposits of ATOM will be opened from 7:30 Apr 23, 2019 (CET, UTC +1) while ATOM spot trading against Tether (USDT), Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) will begin at 11:00 Apr 23, 2019 (CET, UTC +1). Users can make ATOM withdrawals from 7:30 Apr 26, 2019 (CET, UTC +1) onwards.
“OKEx always embraces the strong force driven by start-ups from worldwide. As one of the largest blockchain communities, we
The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, a global leader in alternative investment education, is marking the successful first year of its ‘stackable credential program’, which allows a limited number of qualified members of CFA Institute to move directly to Level II of the rigorous two-part CAIA exam.
Since the program’s inception, more than 1,000 CFA charterholders from 30 countries have enrolled. Many of the largest asset owners, asset managers, and pension consultants are among the employers consistently seen in the profiles of the Candidates approved to participate in this program.
“We have been very pleased with the reaction to our stackable credential initiative and look forward to welcoming more CFA charterholders to the ranks of CAIA Members,” says William J Kelly, CEO of CAIA. “We always looked upon this
big xyt’s analytics platform has been extended to include Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA).
Post-trade TCA is transitioning from just a compliance solution to being seen as a crucial business function and big xyt is transforming the traditional view of TCA with data science; applying advanced techniques to increase quality and deliver flexible consolidated data views.
Whilst TCA benchmarking calculations have not radically changed over the years firms increasingly demand flexibility to benchmark in-house analytics with an independent market source, in a way that better fits their business requirements.
big xyt solutions capture, normalise, collate, and store trade data
FlexTrade Systems has extended Goldman Sachs’ actionable IOI functionality within the FlexTRADER EMS.
The functionality adds IOI profiling and analysis capabilities to the existing FlexIOI product and makes Goldman Sachs actionable liquidity available on the desktop. Customers can action IOI liquidity directly from the trading blotter, which now displays information, including the AFME codes, and the proportion of an order that can be completed using Goldman Sachs’ actionable liquidity.
“True actionable IOI’s are a standard feature in the FlexTRADER EMS, and this latest release allows traders to prioritise which liquidity they prefer to interact with,” says Andy Mahoney, Head of Sales at FlexTrade
Onchain Custodian (ONC), a digital asset custodian backed by Sequoia, Fosun and DHVC, has on-boarded its first customers.
Headquartered in Singapore, Onchain Custodian has developed a personalised and comprehensive custody service for institutional players and accredited investors to secure digital assets with institutional grade security and controls. The SAFE Digital Asset Custody Platform is flexibly built to meet the possible futures of digital asset custody.
Onchain Custodian’s launch event took place at the Mandarin Oriental Singapore on 11 April during the Asia Pacific Blockchain New Finance Summit. The event attracted VIP guests from all over the world, from Canada to
Lyxor Asset Management has launched a new program enabling institutional investors to participate in stand-alone co-investment and selective hedge fund opportunities presented to Lyxor Americas by third-party managers.
To date, Lyxor Americas’ new co-investment programme has received more than USD300 million in capital from external investors.
Opportunities available through the Program are expected to include high conviction, concentrated, and/or bespoke investments offered outside of a manager’s other funds. Investors participating in the Program can review and invest in individual opportunities arising from Lyxor’s relationships with approximately 100 hedge fund managers. This “opt-in” investment program allows participating investors to evaluate
The amount of data is growing exponentially. According to IDC, there were 16.3 zettabytes of information generated in 2017 alone. In simple terms, if every piece of data were a penny, it would cover the earth’s surface five times over.
