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Eventus Systems, a global trade surveillance and market risk platform provider, has integrated the Sterling Trading Tech’s Sterling Cloud-Based Analytics Engine (SRE) into its Validus platform.
Sterling offers a wide range of front-end professional trading platforms serving clients in the equities, options and futures space as well as the Sterling Risk Engine that delivers cloud-based advanced real-time risk analytics. Eventus provides innovative software solutions that solve compliance, market surveillance and financial risk challenges across asset classes around the globe. The joint initiative allows firms to seamlessly connect their trading activity into the Eventus surveillance platform as well as jointly monitor
The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance has joined enterprise software firm R3’s collaborative initiative to develop innovative applications and solutions on its Corda blockchain platform.
The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance (WSBA) is a non-profit trade association with a mission to advocate, guide and promote comprehensive adoption of blockchain technology and cryptoassets across global markets.
It joins R3’s global network of more than 300 of the world’s largest financial services firms, technology companies, central banks, regulators, and trade associations working together on Corda.
Corda is an enterprise-grade blockchain platform that removes costly friction in business transactions by enabling institutions to
Avelacom, a global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, tis opening its third point of presence (PoP) in Tokyo. The new PoP is at the AT TOKYO Premium Colocation Space.
The deployment of this new PoP enables Avelacom to deliver ultra-low latency access and increased reliability to firms trading in Japan’s capital markets. In the past year Avelacom has seen double-digit growth in new business volumes originating in the APAC region, driven by clients demanding professional-grade connectivity services between APAC venues and exchanges, as well as to those in Europe and the USA. The addition of this new
Style Analytics, a provider of factor-based analysis software for investment professionals, is enhancing its Peer Insights product with data from eVestment, a provider of institutional investment data and analytics.
Peer Insights, designed for the buy-side, provides objective factor-by-factor comparisons between individual funds or peer groups enabling the user to identify underlying exposures to sectors, countries and risk to make superior investment choices.
Over 75 per cent of the top 50 institutional investment consultants worldwide rely on eVestment data and analytics for manager research and screening.
The eVestment data available via Peer Insights will provide asset owners and consultants
Digital Isle of Man has formed a Blockchain Office and launched an Isle of Man Sandbox, established to guide blockchain businesses through current (and future) regulatory landscapes, with expert-led assistance and support.
These initiatives form part of a major new commitment for the Isle of Man to become an international hub for blockchain businesses, providing a fully supportive and collaborative environment. The Island welcomes innovative technology, and will not regulate blockchain in isolation, giving businesses the flexibility to best use this emerging and transformative technology.
Digital Isle of Man will create a Blockchain Office, a unique hub that is
Digital asset exchange Kraken has acquired Crypto Facilities, a regulated cryptocurrency trading platform and index provider. The combination creates a specialist in cryptocurrency spot and futures trading.
London-based Crypto Facilities offers individuals and institutions transparent, secure, 24/7 trading on a range of cryptocurrency derivatives. A pioneer in the industry, the firm was the first regulated entity to list futures on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple XRP, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. The firm is also the leading cryptocurrency index provider, calculating the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate that powers the CME Group’s Bitcoin futures. Users value the high integrity, low latency marketplace that
Small to mid-sized investment firms continue to face significant challenges in operating compliance programs that are needed to meet intense regulatory scrutiny, according to Optima Partners, a leading global financial regulatory compliance firm.
In an ever-changing regulatory environment, investment firms are forced to commit more resources, in order to keep pace with a growing and evolving set of complex regulations. But unlike their larger counterparts, smaller firms can be put at a distinct disadvantage as they often lack the capital, experience, expertise and technology required to meet those demands.
Faced with budgetary constraints and less personnel to handle the
Nasdaq Dubai and FTSE Russell have signed a license agreement for the exchange to launch derivatives on FTSE Russell’s Saudi Arabia equity indices.
In its first use of the license, Nasdaq Dubai intends to launch futures on theFTSE Saudi Arabia Index later this month on a date to be announced.
The futures, together with other derivatives to be launched in coming months under the license, will be designed to attract global and regional market participants including the many funds that use FTSE Russell’s indices as benchmarks for investing in Saudi equities.
The move is part of a rapid
The European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) has completed the acquisition of Grexel Systems Oy, a provider of energy certificate registries in Europe. The company currently operates 15 energy certificate registries in Europe.
With this transaction, EEX Group is expanding its activities in the registry business and will be able to actively develop the markets for guarantees of origin for renewable and other forms of energy. As part of EEX Group, Powernext already operates register solutions for guarantees of origin and other certificates in France.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is the leading energy exchange in Europe which develops, operates
Over the last five or six years there has been tremendous consolidation in the alternative fund administration space, with the likes of SS&C Technologies and Apex Fund Services acquiring specialist fund administrators. At the same time, the industry has continued to witness a race to zero, as service providers look to drive down costs – and offer more competitive pricing – using the latest technology innovations to win client mandates. This is fine at the larger end of the spectrum but for smaller fund administrators, these margin pressures are harder to absorb.
As risk in all its many forms continues
