Solutions
AcadiaSoft, a provider of margin automation solutions worldwide, is offering two new services to streamline the generation of inputs necessary for margin calculations using ISDA SIMM.
Market participants that are in-scope for the calculation of initial margin for uncleared derivatives can access risk sensitivities calculation services both through AcadiaSoft and through Bloomberg as an integrated part of their Bloomberg workflow.
The AcadiaSoft solution allows firms to take advantage of an automated process that begins with the submission of a trade file, incorporates a straight-through process on the AcadiaSoft Hub including AcadiaSoft’s Initial Margin Exposure Manager (IMEM) service, and
Ibis Capital, profiled in AlphaQ, a specialist education technology alternative investment manager, is to launch the world’s first education technology special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.
The new company will be called EdTechX Holdings and will list on Nasdaq, according to a regulatory filing.
ExTechX Holdings intends to build a next generation education platform through the targeted acquisition, consolidation and development of established education, training and education technology businesses that are early adopters of technology and led by proven management teams.
IBIS Capital and Azimut Enterprises, a European independent asset management company with over USD61 billion of assets
DDH Graham Limited is now live with Fund Recs’ cash and position reconciliation modules. DDH, Fund Recs’ first Australian client, offers tailored and flexible funds management and administration solutions to the financial services sector.
Fund Recs Cash & Position Rec modules, part of the Velocity platform, ensure all open positions and cash balances held are auto-reconciled back to the custodian/broker. Delivered as a fully hosted Software as a Service solution, Fund Recs provides live in app support to help meet daily deadlines in the fast-moving investment management world.
Alan Meaney, CEO of Fund Recs, says: “We are delighted to
QuantHouse, an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, is to provide optimised direct access to Cboe market data via its QuantFEED and QuantLINK services.
With this new service, QuantHouse now provides clients access to all asset classes traded by Cboe from all QuantHouse data centres via a single API. This ensures connectivity to the exchange is optimised, and reduces the cost of trading for QuantHouse clients. The US-based QuantFEED Cboe low-latency market data feeds, including options, futures, equity options, global equities and FX, are delivered to clients
LCJ Investments is to offer its discretionary-driven FX strategy on Hydra, Ketera Strategies’ managed account marketplace for macro, commodities and liquid equity hedge fund strategies.
LCJ’s Macro Strategy is a discretionary, fundamentals-based, global macro program that expresses its views through the global currency markets. LCJ was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 2007 by Conor MacManus, Jonathan Tullett, and Leonora Kerry Keane, and the strategy began trading in September of that year.
Prior to forming the firm, LCJ’s founders had spent the bulk of their careers in senior positions at various leading institutional organisations, including Anglo Irish Bank, Danske
The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has become home to what it believes to be the first ever listing on a regulated exchange of notes digitised on a blockchain.
Dom Re IC Limited has issued notes digitised on a private blockchain. Referred to as ‘ILSBlockchain’, the mechanism replaces the role of a traditional settlement system for the note issue.
Dom Re is a cell of Solidum Re (Guernsey) ICC Limited, which itself is a wholly owned subsidiary of Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) manager Solidum Partners AG.
Now USD15 million Principal-at-Risk Participating Notes due 2024 issued by Dom Re have
Exegy, a provider of managed services and low-latency technology for market data normalisation and distribution, and Transaction Network Services (TNS), a leader in global managed data communications and interoperability solutions, are teaming up to offer a global FX trading platform.
The new offering combines TNS’ excellence in market connectivity and hosting solutions and Exegy’s Trade Port FX which delivers normalised FX market data and execution services to major FX venues as a fully managed and integrated FX trading platform.
“Exegy is excited to be working with TNS to create a global, state-of-the-art FX trading platform,” says Exegy Sales Director
KOGER is now offering a comprehensive end-to-end digital ecosystem for investor services with complete compliance, workflow and document management, and client web portal functionality.
KOGER is primarily known in the industry for NTAS, its flagship transfer agency system that supports USD2 trillion in assets from hedge funds, private equity funds, pension funds, money market funds, mutual funds and retail funds.
According to Ras Sipko, KOGER’s Chief Operating Officer: “Having specialised in providing innovative software solutions to the investment industry for over 20 years, KOGER has acquired tremendous insight into what the industry requires in order to achieve operational excellence:
TradingScreen (TS), an all-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), has enhanced its offering through a partnership with Imagine Software, which offers real-time portfolio, risk, and compliance management solutions.
“TradingScreen recognises the need to create seamless integrations and cultivate deeper partnerships to ultimately benefit trading desks faced with ever evolving regulatory and compliance demands,” says Varghese Thomas (pictured), TradingScreen Chief Operating and Strategy Officer. “As Imagine Software provides the definitive real-time solution to manage risk, maximise growth and comply with regulatory demands, TS clients with portfolio investment mandates on the Imagine platform will now benefit from our fully-integrated pre-trade
Alternative investment fund (AIF) manager Olymp Capital has launched what it says is the first European investment fund to cover the entire blockchain and crypto asset ecosystem.
The fund will include blockchain-related private equity, initial coin offering (ICO) activity, and fund-of-fund activity centred on crypto hedge funds. The fund accepts investment both in fiat and cryptocurrencies (eg bitcoin, ether).
The Olymp Capital leadership team is led by experts in both traditional finance and in the blockchain ecosystem who have drawn on the best features of traditional venture capital, updated for the world of crypto investment. They include serial technology entrepreneur Christophe
