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Lawson Connor is offering existing and new clients exclusive opportunities to join WeWork, a space and services provider with a presence in 50 metropolitan locations.
WeWork provides flexible workspaces and scalable business services and currently has more than 250 physical locations in over 74 cities and 22 countries around the world.
This new offering is being added to Lawson Connor’s existing range of business services which includes: Outsourced Investment Management Services, Regulatory Hosting, Compliance Software, Managed Compliance, AML Services and Company Secretarial Services.
Alex Garabedian, Strategy & Operations at Lawson Conner, says: “We are excited to launch this new
Dash Financial Technologies, the provider of multi-asset trading technology and execution services platforms, has appointed Glenn Lesko (pictured), as Chief Growth Officer.
Reporting directly to CEO Peter Maragos, Lesko will be responsible for driving the firm’s revenue growth objectives globally, both organically and inorganically.
Lesko, a chartered financial analyst (CFA), brings nearly 30 years of experience, most of it spent working to deliver global, multi-asset trading solutions to the buy side. Most recently he served as CEO of Bloomberg Tradebook. Prior to that he spent nearly 10 years at Instinet, serving as CEO of Instinet Asia and later head
Pico, a financial infrastructure services provider, has launched direct connectivity to the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) colocation facility in Warsaw, Poland.
The GPW is the largest and most liquid venue in Central and Eastern Europe and clients interested in connecting to the multi-asset trading marketplace may now do so via direct connectivity or by hosting with Pico within the Warsaw colocation facility. Pico provides one of the lowest latency connections between London metro and Warsaw via a PicoNet access point within London’s Interxion data centre. PicoNet is a private, proprietary network mesh that provides the electronic trading community with powerful
Nasdaq is establishing connectivity to three data centres in Hong Kong to increase its service to the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region through a Nasdaq Point of Presence (POP).
From July, Nasdaq will begin to offer access to data from the US financial markets via POP services in the following Hong Kong data centres – HK1 Equinix, Mega-i, and HKEx. The Nasdaq POP is designed to enable firms to access market data and trading applications, as well as APAC financial web portals, with real-time US equity and index/ETF information from a local centre. This new, cost-effective service provides firms low latency connectivity
Research unbundling is going global following its introduction in Europe in January as part of MiFID II, according to a new survey conducted by RSRCHXchange.
The poll, which was carried out by Survation in Q2 2018 and canvassed the views of 418 respondents from over 30 countries, representing over 350 firms with over USD30 trillion of AUM in aggregate, reveals that 83 per cent of US respondents expect unbundling to take effect within the next four years and 52 per cent of Asian repsondents within two years.
The smallest firms believe that change will come through regulation, whereas those in
Cryptocurrency initial coin offerings (ICOs) will become a significant fundraising route for companies seeking growth capital in the next five years, coming to represent over 10 per cent of all capital raised in the UK, according to results of a new survey by the law firm Collyer Bristow.
Over half (57 per cent) of respondents, comprising investment managers, fintech entrepreneurs and business owners, believe that start-ups will turn to ICOs in increasing numbers as they look for alternatives to more traditional capital raising methods like private equity and venture capital.
They anticipate that at least 10 per cent of
INGOT Coin has formed a Joint Venture Partnership with GMEX Group (GMEX), a provider of exchange and post-trade solutions to develop INGOT Coin’s blockchain-based all-inclusive ecosystem.
GMEX will provide Fusion, its hybrid centralised blockchain-based global exchange trading, market surveillance, post trade infrastructure and digital banking solution and work with INGOT Coin to develop an ecosystem in multiple asset classes including equities, debt, FX, derivatives, commodities, cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
The full Ecosystem includes a mixture of centralised and blockchain-enabled integrated services including digital wallet storage and real-time settlement management to facilitate secure custody of crypto assets. It will also
Lendingblock, an institutional platform for collateralised crypto-currency lending, has partnered with digital asset brokerage firm Octagon Strategy Limited.
As part of the partnership, Octagon Strategy will join the Lendingblock Institutional Advisory Group to trial and launch the Lendingblock platform’s real-time exchange for fully collateralised, cross-chain borrowing and lending of cryptocurrency assets.
“I’m delighted to announce that we have the support of one of the largest cryptocurrency brokerage firms in the world,” says Steve Swain (pictured), CEO of Lendingblock. “Octagon Strategy has established itself as the go-to institutional brokerage for the cryptocurrency market, and brings extensive industry expertise and unique
Seventy one per cent of buy-side heads of trading and FX regard automation as their biggest priority, followed by 49 per cent who cite finding alternative methods to source liquidity as their prime concern.
That’s according to the finding of a poll carried out by WBR ahead of the TradeTech FC event in Barcelona, which also reveals that 2 per cent of respondents have automated more than 76 per cent of their trading flow, while a majority of 59 per cent have automated between 26 per cent-50 per cent of FX trading flow.
The study also finds that better
The vast majority (88 per cent) of buy-side traders see see the shift to block trading in the dark as a positive outcome of MiFID II, according to a new report from Liquidnet on the ability of traders to source liquidity in the European markets.
While the regulatory focus remains on lit price formation, the main challenge for institutional asset managers is the ability to uncover liquidity given their need to execute in size. The outcome when trading the ‘parent’ order can be far more impactful than any marginal price improvement at a ‘child’ fill level when taking all trading
