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HiddenLevers, a risk tech provider serving sophisticated RIAs, wants to see more detailed data from asset managers dealing in separately managed accounts.
“Almost a decade in business, and we’re still having major trouble finding daily and weekly returns data for most SMAs. The lack of transparency makes it so easy to be a bad actor,” says Raj Udeshi, HiddenLevers Founder. “We implore asset managers to level up and provide more granular SMA data, so HiddenLevers can do proper correlation analysis on your clandestine products.”
HiddenLeavers says that as the usage of separate accounts has grown amongst investment advisors, there
Geospatial Insight, a provider of independent research derived from the analysis of satellite, aerial and drone imagery, has announced that financial services industry and quant community veteran Steve Wilcockson has joined the company.
Responsible for GeoFinance Market Development, Wilcockson (pictured), will drive client-facing activities for all Geospatial Insight Finance Sector products and will lead product management for RetailWatch, a consumer sentiment analysis dataset.
Geospatial Insight’s solutions for the Investment sector provide syndicated independent research reports and time-series datasets for quantitative investors or proprietary research insights for private clients, family offices and hedge funds.
Wilcockson was formerly Global Industry
Deutsche Börse Group and RegTek.Solutions have partnered to deliver a certified testing and pre-validation service for clients of Deutsche Börse’s Regulatory Reporting Hub.
Available from the fourth quarter of this year, the new service addresses feedback from clients and regulators on ongoing challenges with the quality and transparency of transaction reporting under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR).
The new pre-validation platform will be available to over 2,300 executing entities, which are using Deutsche Börse’s ARM (Approved Reporting Mechanism) service. It will add enhanced testing and data quality remediation capabilities, as well as pre-submission validations, for all transactions
Bittrex International is to launch a digital trading platform that will feature a streamlined token approval process and provide more trading options for qualified international customers.
This new international trading platform, previously branded as Bittrex Malta, will begin a brief evaluation period during the next few weeks to ensure optimal operations for international customers.
The key feature of the Bittrex International platform will be a streamlined token approval process, which can be completed within weeks instead of months. In addition to the new listing process, token teams will have access to our extensive network of international exchange partners. The
Arcesium, a post-trade technology and professional services firm, is expanding its strategic partnership with JP Morgan Alternative Investment Services, a provider of independent fund administration and comprehensive outsourcing solutions to hedge funds, hybrid funds, and fund of hedge funds.
End users are now able to have their own technology, their own data model, and integration to inbound and outbound systems while effortlessly connecting to their administrator for NAV calculation and all investor-related services and communications.
“We are putting best-in-class technology in the hands of clients without the operational burden of keeping those systems in synch with those of the
The world’s first space security token has been announced at the Zurich Crypto Summit, by SpaceFund Inc, a Texas-based venture capital firm focussed on using new blockchain technology to fund ‘frontier enabling’ space startups.
“SpaceFund’s goal is to support the development and profitability of amazing new space startups around the world,” says Rick Tumlinson, founding partner of SpaceFund. “With Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others investing billions into a space economic infrastructure, a revolution is underway in space. We want to allow more visionary people to get involved, to support the entrepreneurs opening space to humanity, and to share in
When it comes to protecting your business, you can never be too prepared. In the competitive investment management world, downtime for any reason is not an option. Whether it be a natural disaster, inclement weather, or even a flu epidemic sweeping the office, your firm needs to have both Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans to ensure that your firm doesn’t undergo the costly financial and reputational losses in the case of downtime.Firstly, it’s important to understand difference between Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans.
Disaster Recovery refers to the policies and procedures to enable the recovery of key technology
SharesPost, a provider of liquidity solutions to the private growth asset class, has launched the SharesPost Token Index, a tool designed to track the growth of the token market.
The Index focuses on a select group of tokens based on the ERC-20 protocol, and uses factors such as market capitalisation and trading history to assign a weight to each token based on price and circulating supply. As such, the Index is able to accurately reflect the market’s overall maturity in real-time on a daily basis while minimising liquidity risk and transaction costs.
SharesPost Founder and CEO Gregory Brogger
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has expanded its CUSIP Options service to now include futures and options on futures for the North American market.
The expansion was made possible through an extension of the CGS 2009 partnership with Euromoney TRADEDATA, a financial information provider specialising in futures and options products. Building on the partnership, CGS will now also assign CUSIPs and CGS ISINs to all standard options on standard futures listed by the major North American exchanges.
Exchange coverage for this new data set includes Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc (CME), New York
Crystal Financial Institutions, a division of Alliant Insurance Services has launched a new cyber solution specially tailored to hedge funds that addresses numerous aspects of cyber risk management, including security management, insurance, crisis management and legal support.
Cyber Risk 360° provides powerful coverage for modern risks. It includes a cyber insurance policy that has an available coverage extension for fee income related to unplanned redemptions. As one of the industry’s first solutions to offer this unique extension, it allows fund managers to recoup lost management fee income attributed to a cyber breach event. Other features of Cyber Risk 360° include
