Solutions
Following the successful completion of its merger with alternative asset manager Altegris, Artivest has expanded its suite of services to include product structuring and fund distribution solutions for asset and wealth manager enterprise partners.
These new offerings embody Artivest’s long-term commitment to advising and partnering with its array of clients at every stage along the alternative fund lifecycle.
“Our mission is to optimise investor, advisor, and enterprise access to premier alternative funds. These new consulting offerings play a critical role in this undertaking,” says James Waldinger (pictured), Founder and CEO of Artivest. “We will continue to identify options for
New research amongst institutional investors from the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) reveals that 63 per cent believe senior executives at large established businesses have a poor understanding of blockchain.
Only 7 per cent described their understanding as ‘good’, with the remainder describing it as ‘average’.
According to the research, 76 per cent of professional investors interviewed don’t feel senior executives at large established businesses are particularly committed to blockchain, but overall they expect global spend on blockchain technology to increase by 108 per cent this year. Over one-in-20 (6 per cent) anticipate spend in this area will increase
7orca Asset Management (7orca) is now live on IHA Markit’s order management and portfolio modelling solution, thinkFolio.
Formed in 2017, 7orca is an independent German asset manager that has been using thinkFolio for over a year to support its currency overlay and short volatility investment strategies for institutional clients.
“Since establishing 7orca, we have focussed on providing our clients with a quantitative investment process to actively hedge currency risks,” says Jasper Duex, CIO at 7orca Asset Management. “We have configured thinkFolio to support this FX overlay strategy while also allowing for other workflows to support strategies such as short
LGO Markets, a non-custodial, secure and transparent trading platform dedicated to institutions, has partnered with XTRD, a technology company introducing a new infrastructure allowing banks, hedge funds, and large institutional traders to easily access cryptocurrency markets.
XTRD will integrate LGO Markets into its own ecosystem to provide easy access to the exchange’s real-time market data and execution through unified FIX API. As a result, institutional traders will seamlessly get access to new liquidity pool without significant changes in their algorithms. LGO Markets, in turn, will provide white glove support for XTRD clients.
The companies have also agreed to work
Capital Markets technology specialist Neueda has launched a comprehensive service aimed at helping investment firms enhance competitiveness, improve efficiency and streamline costs through test automation.
Combining Neueda’s industry experience and its automation technology, Scrutiny has been developed to reduce cost of ownership of front office applications to capital markets firms and improve time to market through test automation and process optimisation.
Through its Scrutiny service, Neueda provides capital markets firms with a full analysis of their current development processes, access to a team of skilled experts and a suite of solutions to deliver process improvements quickly.
“We have
By Bob Nicolson, Head of Consultancy at Nicolson Bray – Organisations today are facing a dangerous combination of mounting cybersecurity threat and a lack of in-house expertise to meet the challenge. Smaller firms have typically allocated responsibility for information security to a member of the operations or financial team and given IT the responsibility for technical cyber security. In most cases these responsibilities are secondary to the allotted individuals main role, resulting in issues around prioritisation and conflicts of interests.
As such, it is now commonly understood that having a person, or team, solely accountable for cyber security has become
Swiss private bank Falcon has introduced direct transfers of selected cryptocurrencies for both private and institutional clients.
With immediate effect, Falcon clients can directly transfer cryptocurrencies to and from segregated Falcon wallets, as well as convert them into fiat money. Falcon says that this new offering makes blockchain assets fully bankable.
Clients can place trading orders conveniently through e-banking or a dedicated relationship manager. Digital assets are included in portfolio statements as well as in tax reporting documents. In addition to ensuring best execution, Falcon provides secure storage thanks to its proprietary custody solution.
The bank has developed
B2C2, a cryptocurrency liquidity provider and specialist in electronic OTC trading, has launched streaming pricing with point-and-click execution on its OTC platform.
For the first time, B2C2’s clients will be able to view and execute trades on a real-time two-way market, via the firm’s secure web interface. The new functionality allows market participants to easily monitor live pricing in user-defined quantities and execute with the click of a button, as they would on traditional FX trading platforms.
The launch rounds out a number of milestones for B2C2 in 2018, including surpassing 2017 peak volumes; rolling out a completely redesigned
Interactive Brokers is to give investors access to independent research provider CFRA’s ETF, and mutual fund research through the Investors’ Marketplace platform.
CFRA provides research on more than 1,400 ETFs and 22,000 mutual fund share classes, and its analytical team reports on more than 1,500 global companies using its proprietary STARS recommendations. The CFRA equity and fund research team also provides rigorous company, sector and industry analysis, which will be available through the Investors’ Marketplace platform and regular content contributions to the Interactive Brokers blog, Traders’ Insight.
Steven Sanders, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Product Development at Interactive
Business information provider IHS Markit has formed an alliance with AcadiaSoft, a provider of margin automation solutions, to connect the firms’ industry leading platforms for managing initial margin.
The alliance will help the non-cleared derivatives community comply with margin regulation, as potentially over 1,000 firms are brought into scope in phase four (September 2019) and phase five (September 2020).
In connecting their platforms, the integration will help shared customers achieve straight-through processing for the entire margin lifecycle, which includes negotiating margin terms, calculating initial margin for each trade and valuing and exchanging collateral daily.
Two-way data exchange
