Solutions
CQG has connected to the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) to offer global clients access to iron ore futures.
The move marks the second Chinese market available on CQG, as the firm continues to expand business in China with offices, local staff, infrastructure, and exchange coverage.
China is opening markets with new approved mechanisms for foreign participation in products such as INE crude and DCE iron ore futures. CQG is leading the way among foreign vendors to support coverage and developing important relationships in the region with Chinese futures commission merchants (FCMs) and investors.
In mid-March, CQG announced that
Eze Software, a provider of global investment technology, has released the newest version of its enterprise-wide investment management solution, Eze Investment Suite 2018.
This latest release is the culmination of Eze Software’s five-year project to unite processes such as Order, Execution, and Portfolio Management, Accounting, Commission Management, and Compliance on a single platform. Eze Investment Suite comprises Eze OMS, Eze EMS, Eze Portfolio Management, and Eze Investor Accounting, allowing firms to manage their entire operation via a single solution. The multi-asset platform is designed to minimise total cost of ownership by scaling to fit the needs of firms across sizes, geographies,
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, and MAP Financial Technologies Limited, (MAP FinTech), a specialist in regulatory reporting solutions, have formed a research and development partnership.
The partnership will focus on the two firms’ complementary areas of regulatory reporting, specifically relating to EMIR, MIFID-II/MIFIR and Best Execution solutions.
SteelEye has developed an intelligent data engine with analytics that provides insights to firms beyond the regulatory dimension with an ability to view, search and analyse structured, unstructured and semi-structured data through a single lens. This makes regulatory reporting simple and seamless to implement, providing a competitive advantage to
As the latest addition to Theorem’s expanding platform, PortfolioScience’s RiskAPI provides interactive, on-demand risk analysis for asset managers and hedge funds.
Theorem Technologies’ SaaS platform streamlines post-trade workflows by delivering value-added tools and analytics that run on a consolidated dataset across an organisation’s brokers and counterparties.
With this integration, Theorem customers can now generate Value-at-Risk (VAR), multi-dimensional stress testing, exposure analysis, and options analytics across portfolios, sub-portfolios, and individual positions. Users can also interact with powerful views of risk in order to better track intraday portfolio activity.
“Adding VAR and other risk measurements is part of our strategy to
Options, a provider of global market data and colocation services for trading firms, has completed its European colocation infrastructure build out with low latency connectivity now available to the Bolsa de Madrid exchange, the fourth new top tier colocation venue on the Options platform this year.
Operated by Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), Bolsa de Madrid is the largest stock exchange in Spain. Options’ clients can avail of fully managed hosting services and low latency direct connectivity to BME’s trading platform and market data directly at source.
This latest addition completes the European phase of Options’ global colocation expansion,
Financial services regulatory consultancy Bovill has appointed cybersecurity regulation expert David Copland as a Managing Consultant.
Copland (pictured), joins from a risk management consultancy and will be responsible for servicing clients in relation to risk management, cybersecurity, electronic and algorithmic trading for buy-side asset managers and sell-side financial services institutions. David has 18 years’ financial experience in hedge funds and brokerage operations. He spent over nine years at Man Investments on the senior management team as Global Head of IT and the COO of the Man Investments Trader Hotel.
Copland joins with a warning that around the world, regulators
Multi-asset trading services specialist OANDA has launched an institutional trading platform tailored to meet the advanced requirements of professional FX traders, from hedge funds and brokers to CTAs and proprietary trading firms.
Called OANDA Pro, the platform will be powered by State Street’s Currenex, a market-leading provider of high-performance technology and deep pools of liquidity.
OANDA Pro delivers liquidity from multiple streaming banks, non-banks and through the Currenex anonymous ECN into a single consolidated Central Limit Order Book. Offering a robust trading experience supported by a low-latency network, institutional clients can now execute their trades through a fully customisable
By George Ralph, RFA – It feels like the alternative investment sector is experiencing a bit of a hiatus right now; we’ve just dealt with MiFID II and are waiting to see how that beds in and GDPR is just weeks away from taking effect.
Most of our clients are still trying to understand the implications of the latter but have made the infrastructure changes needed and are focused on getting their policies and processes in order. With spring trying desperately to battle through the rain clouds, it feels like a good time to go back to basics, take stock and have
Sequant Capital, an FCA UK regulated broker, has formed a strategic partnership with HitBTC, one of the world’s largest running cryptocurrency exchanges, to allow improved accessibility to the crypto market.
This partnership provides professional crypto traders with direct market access to crypto assets through an FCA regulated company in the UK.
Traders depositing a minimum of 100 BTC or 1000 ETH with Sequant Capital will have funds stored securely in a cold wallet managed by the broker. That initial collateral, protected by Sequant Capital, will reduce the counterparty’s risks while giving them full advantage of trading on HitBTC –
Fund administrator Apex Fund Services (Apex) has appointed Richard Dinn as Global Head of Custody and Depositary Sales following the acquisitions of Deutsche Bank AFS and MM Warburg in Luxembourg.
Dinn brings with him over 20 years of broad industry experience providing consultancy support on fund structures and distribution channels across multiple markets worldwide.
As Global Head of Custody and Depositary Sales, Dinn will be based out of Apex’s Dublin office and will report directly to the recently appointed Chief Revenue Officer, Fred Jacobs. He will be focused on expanding and developing the Apex Group’s presence in the Custody
