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McKay Brothers International (MBI) has reduced latency on the select London Metal Exchange (LME) data it redistributes via the wireless Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service.
The reduction reflects MBI’s adoption of the new LMEsource multicast feed and the deployment of FPGA feed handlers. The median improvement from these changes is 400 microseconds, and is expected to be considerably larger during bursts.
“We are pleased to offer this latency improvement to QED’s subscribers of LME market data,” says MBI Managing Director Francois Tyc (pictured). “The LMEsource feed, combined with QED’s industry-leading latency, results in a compelling service for traders of
Montanaro Asset Management, a London based asset manager, has implemented Charles River’s Investment Book of Record (IBOR) to provide portfolio managers and traders with up to date position and cash information in the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS).
Montanaro has used Charles River IMS for portfolio management, compliance and trading over the last six years.
Charles River’s IBOR provides real-time position and cash updates to the front office, independent of back-office accounting systems and custodians. By ensuring timely delivery of data for front-office activities, Montanaro has been able to remove the need for proprietary tools and
Thomson Reuters is partnering with London-headquartered Finbourne Technology to use Finbourne’s cloud-based advanced investment management platform, LUSID, for Thomson Reuters client and transaction data.
LUSID is an event-based ledger with published APIs that allow in-house and third-party solutions to interface with portfolios, holdings or transactions. The partnership is designed to benefit customers by offering increased cost efficiency, better management of data used for compliance efforts and bolster struggling legacy investment-management systems. It builds on Thomson Reuters open-platform strategy, which seeks to meet customer needs by providing open access to in-house solutions as well as to partnered solutions.
Thomson Reuters clients will use LUSID
Northern Trust has launched North America Alternative Fund Services, a new group which combines established private equity and hedge fund services businesses to address the operational and strategic needs of the evolving alternative asset management industry.
North America Alternative Fund Services provides fund administration, accounting and data solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated hedge funds, private equity managers and managed account platforms. It offers specialised expertise in complex valuations, cash, collateral and liquidity management, as well as analytics and transparency into portfolios that increasingly combine hedge fund strategies with fund structures traditionally used by private equity firms.
InfoHedge, a financial services-focused private cloud & managed services provider based in New York City, is to become a separate division within managed services provider Thrive.
InfoHedge will focus on the alternative investment management and hedge fund community, with plans to expand its application hosting product set and geographic reach via Thrive’s next generation managed services platform and access to capital via M/C Partners, Thrive’s private equity financial sponsor.
Led by managing partners, Alexander Kouperman (pictured), Eugene Kushnirskiy, Felix Ilionskiy, Michael Curry and Lev Vinogradov, InfoHedge has been servicing nearly 400 hedge fund, REIT, asset management and family office customers for over a dozen
By Amit Taylor (pictured) & Mel Torode, Estera – The argument for greater diversity on boards has grabbed many headlines in recent years, as companies and organisations across the globe increasingly realise the benefits offered in terms of fresh ideas and insight.
Much of the early focus was on the impact that women can have in the boardroom. Yet diversity is a very broad church – covering everything from gender, race, sexuality, and disability, to social demographics, different ways of thinking, age, professional expertise and much more.
It is now widely accepted – and numerous studies have demonstrated – that
Align, a provider of technology infrastructure solutions, has been named in 45th place in Channel Futures’ 2018 MSP 501 ranking list, which recognises the top managed service providers based on metrics including recurring revenue, growth and other factors.
The MSP 501 is the IT channel’s first, largest and most comprehensive ranking of managed service providers worldwide. This year, Channel Futures received a record number of submissions, with applications from Europe, Asia, South America, North America and beyond.
“We’re thrilled to be recognised on this esteemed list of managed service providers, representing the most forward-thinking and innovative organisations in the
The European Power Exchange (EPEX SPOT) and the clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) have introduced 15-minute continuous Intraday trading on the Belgian and Dutch local power spot markets. The first trading day was 10 July 2018.
“In Intraday trading, flexibility products with a sub-hourly modality are of growing importance, as they are indispensable to efficiently integrate renewables into the wholesale market,” says Jonas Törnquist, Chief Operating Officer of EPEX SPOT.
“The new contracts are designed to manage emerging flexibility challenges of power markets more efficiently. Therefore, the new products for the Dutch and Belgian markets bring a true benefit
Thomson Reuters has launched Eikon Digest, a proprietary personalised service containing the most significant news, research, data and information from Thomson Reuters Eikon, its financial desktop platform.
Eikon Digest builds on the strength of Reuters News which is renowned for breaking news, delivering comprehensive independent analysis and commentary on the latest world and financial market news and supplements and leverages a unique combination of artificial intelligence and Reuters editorial curation, designed to distill the most critical information from a vast array of trusted sources, saving clients time and helping ensure they are always aware of what matters to them the
Thomson Reuters has introduced Rules-Based Order Routing (RBOR) to its Thomson Reuters REDI execution management system designed to enable traders to automate workflows in a flexible, customisable, and cost-efficient way.
Thomson Reuters RBOR is both multi-asset and global in scope.
RBOR gives traders the ability to set a number of order routing rules that determine which trades should be handled automatically or through manual intervention. This functionality allows traders to configure policies that assist in enabling and demonstrating best execution compliance. Based on a trader’s pre-determined preferences, RBOR automatically routes orders to a broker, or multiple brokers and/or algos,
