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BCS Global Markets (BCS GM) has partnered with Russian analysts Evgeny Gavrilenkov and Alexander Kudrin, the founders of GKEM ANALYTICA, a macroeconomic research firm focused on macroeconomics and financial markets.
GKEM ANALYTICA will collaborate with BCS GM’s award-winning analyst team on ‘Outside the Box’, a new research offering which will be available for BCS GM’s institutional investor base. The reports will be thematic, catering to investors who have an appetite for an alternative view on sectors and additional opportunities. In line with BCS GM and GKEM ANALYTICA’s areas of expertise, Russia will be the main market of focus.
Evgeny
On Thursday 29 November 2018, Global Fund Media hosted an exclusive event in conjunction with the Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB), to showcase how the jurisdiction is updating its regulatory regime, not only to bring it into closer alignment with global best practices, but also to open itself up to more institutional fund interest.
The event started with a brief introduction by Tanya McCartney, CEO and Executive Director of the BFSB, who acknowledged that this was a time of great change, not least in the UK as the country assesses the “impact as well as the opportunities of Brexit”. “We
One year on from the launch of its blockchain/cryptocurrency fund of funds, Luxembourg-domiciled and CSSF registered AIFM Block Asset Management has created the Blockchain Multi-strategy Certificate.
The open-ended tracker certificate is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Borse) and will track the performance of their Blockchain & Crypto Fund. The underlying Fund invests in a carefully selected portfolio of blockchain/cryptocurrency investment funds using a unique five-prong investment approach: exposure to tracking/index, trading, mining, lending and ICO/STO funds. This diverse selection of managers has a combined AUM of over USD1 billion.
Block Asset Management’s founders and directors, Manuel E De
BitSpread, a blockchain asset research and advisory firm, has launched a new range of capital protected crypto investment strategies.
It is believed to be the first time that capital protected investment strategies using sophisticated derivatives have been utilised in the crypto space.
The strategies, which have been produced by experts in financial engineering, offer investors the opportunities to participate in the upside of Bitcoin while having a significant proportion of the capital protected on the downside.
Cedric Jeanson, founder and CEO of BitSpread, says; “BitSpread is the first firm in the space to provide institutional quality capital protected
Arcesium, a post-trade technology and professional services firm that supports more than USD100 billion in client assets, has launched a suite of modular technology products and solutions for alternative asset managers.
These highly configurable tools and services are designed to integrate into a client’s existing technology to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their middle- and back-office operations.
“Arcesium has built a powerful and fully integrated platform designed to support the most complex operational demands of some of the largest asset managers in the industry,” says Gaurav Suri, CEO. “We are thrilled to offer key features of this platform
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has partnered with CoinRoutes, a provider of consolidated data, smart order routing & algorithmic trading for crypto investors, to extend the crypto-asset capabilities of the Vela product stack.
The phased program will commence with deploying CoinRoutes’ Smart Order Routing (SOR) platform to provide clients with immediate electronic access to crypto-asset trading exchanges.
Vela’s Crypto-Asset SOR offering, based on the CoinRoutes platform, provides routing to achieve the best aggregate price across all selected crypto exchanges immediately. The platform provides both aggressive and passive algorithmic strategies
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a wholly owned subsidiary of ICE, has launched Insights, a new online thought-leadership platform.
Insights features:
SLICE, a new weekly series showcasing conversations with entrepreneurs and CEOs that will air on Cheddar Business, the post-cable network that broadcasts daily on the NYSE Trading Floor.
WALK THIS WAY, a new 10-part series where CEOs take you inside their headquarters to show viewers how they are building workspaces of the future.
RADIATE, a micro-lesson
State Street Corporation is enhancing FX Connect, its FX execution venue, with new trading technology to provide a more agile and innovative platform for clients.
“In today’s highly competitive environment where firms face increased complexity and regulatory requirements, it’s vital that we work with our clients to shape our product and solution strategy,” says Beverley Doherty, global head of FX Connect. “Our new enhancements will be instrumental in helping us accomplish this goal, demonstrating FX Connect’s ability to innovate and improve products that create solutions for our clients’ evolving needs.”
Through a complete transformation using HTML5, FX Connect is
Dash Financial Technologies has added a new suite of real-time analytics, visualisation and reporting tools aimed at portfolio traders.
The new tools are available natively in Dash360, the firm’s web-based platform that provides order-to-execution level transparency, detailing and visualising exchange fees, and providing venue controls, routing analysis and performance reporting.
In September, Dash launched an advanced new portfolio trading algorithm that is, unlike most legacy PT solutions, available on a front-end agnostic basis. For users of the PT algo, the new Dash360 tools provide a cockpit of real-time portfolio-level analytics.
Jennifer Hubbs, Co-Head of Dash’s Portfolio Trading Solutions
RWC Partners, a privately owned asset management company headquartered in London, has selected the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) to streamline its front to middle office investment processes.
Portfolio managers, traders, compliance, and operational teams will use the centralised platform to manage their institutional portfolios, with data provided by Charles River’s Investment Book of Record (IBOR) and Enterprise Data Management (EDM) capabilities.
“Consolidating nine portfolio management desks onto a single investment management platform was the priority, and Charles River IMS gives us the flexibility to do this,” says Nigel Hill, Head of IT and Operations,
