Solutions
GoldenSource has integrated Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) and Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) services from Trax, the post-trade services and European market data division of MarketAxess, to help banks and asset managers with their MiFID II reporting obligations.
The integration was developed in Q3 and Q4 of 2017, ahead of MiFID II go-live in January 2018. It means that firms who manage MiFID II reporting data through GoldenSource now have the option for the data to be automatically submitted to the Trax ARM or APA, helping ensure efficiency and reporting accuracy. In addition to helping manage the increased MiFID II reporting
Options, a provider of global market data and colocation services for trading firms, has deployed real-time multicast gap detection as part of its Managed Colocation offering.
The TradeVision platform from Ixia, a Keysight Business, will initially be integrated with Options Managed Colocation infrastructure across the US, with expansion across European venues throughout H2 2018.
Launched November 2017, TradeVision is the first market data monitoring platform to deliver a unique combination of market feed health monitoring and advanced network visibility with pre-programmed support for hundreds of trading venues. It provides high accuracy gap detection, feed and channel health and statistics,
Cboe Global Markets’ Cboe DataShop has added Wall Street Horizon’s corporate event data to its range of offerings, aimed at providing customers with a more robust data offering and the tools to better leverage corporate event intelligence.
Cboe DataShop customers now have access to Wall Street Horizon’s more than 25 corporate event types, including earnings dates, conference calls, dividend dates and investor conferences.
“Investors are constantly searching for ways to optimise the timing of their trading decisions, and we are seeing an increasing demand for information around corporate events and alternative data,” says Catherine Clay, Vice President and Global Head
CMC Markets Institutional, a provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions, has partnered with oneZero Financial Systems.
The collaboration enables CMC Markets to disseminate its high-quality, multi-asset liquidity feed to a wider range of accredited counterparties, using a seamless automated solution for market connectivity and price distribution.
More than 150 banks, brokerages and hedge funds are already connected to oneZero’s EcoSystem, using the company’s proprietary software and infrastructure. This deployment means that CMC Markets’ liquidity can now be accessed by this community at discounted rates. CMC Markets is currently one of the only providers on the oneZero EcoSystem
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and its private credit affiliate, the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), have published new guidance for fund managers in valuing their investments.
The new AIMA Guide to Sound Practices for the Valuation of Investments contains a series of recommendations regarding valuation governance, transparency, procedures, processes and systems and sources, models and methodology.
A number of recommendations from the guide’s previous edition in 2013 have been updated to reflect the evolving valuation process and changes in the regulatory environment, including the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Additionally, the industry has become more diversified
For over 30 years, Align has been building intelligent technology infrastructures, networks and private clouds, in various industries throughout the world. Over that time, much has changed in the industry as technology advances have re-shaped and re-imagined what is capable in the world of fund investing. Speaking with Hedgeweek, Vinod Paul, Chief Operating Officer of Align, refers to two key milestones in 2017:
• The company expanded its cybersecurity consulting practice with the launch of Align Cybersecurity, the first comprehensive risk management solution in the world. Our unique suite of services encompasses solutions around technology, compliance, risk management and security awareness
Sydney-based Invast Global is a subsidiary of Japanese listed Invast Securities Co Ltd. Employing a prime-of-prime model, Invast leads the industry in the provision of multi-asset high-quality, non-bank Prime Services. It provides credit intermediation, access to liquidity (both OTC and exchange) and comprehensive trading platforms/API connectivity options.
With a client base of brokerages and hedge funds spanning the globe, the company has experienced impressive growth in its prime services offering, which gives institutional clients collateralised access to premium liquidity in OTC FX, Metals and Energy products, as well as direct connectivity to over 30 global exchanges and OTC venues.
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Agecroft Partners was founded by Don Steinbrugge, who has 34 years of experience in the institutional investment management industry, including previously serving as the head of sales for one of the world’s largest hedge funds and institutional investment management firms.
“Agecroft has changed the model of hedge fund third party marketing,” says Steinbrugge. “Most third party marketing models are based on leveraging personal relationships and doing extensive entertaining. Ours has been to build a global brand with a reputation as an industry thought leader, strong institutional investment knowledge and representing high quality managers”
Agecroft Partners has been a prolific writer
SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, is one of the best-known hedge fund administrators, servicing some of the industry’s largest hedge funds. Year-on-year, the group saw its total hedge fund assets under administration rise from USD584 billion to USD739 billion.
Last year, SS&C GlobeOp saw increased demand for outsourced solutions driven by clients looking to re-engineer their operating models to create scalability and cost efficiency in the face of increasing complexity. This played to its strengths, given the technology heritage of SS&C Technologies and as Ken Fullerton (pictured), Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Hedge Fund Services, explains: “SS&C’s ability
Iron Cove Partners (ICP) is a leading full-service national insurance brokerage firm serving the financial services industry. Headquartered in Garden City, Long Island, ICP is a trusted advisor with decades of experience and over 150 hedge funds as clients.
ICP specialises in meeting the unique insurance demands across all areas of the financial services industry including: investment advisers; hedge funds; private equity funds; mutual funds; broker-dealers, and investment banks.
Louis D’Agostino is Principal of Financial Services practice at Iron Cove, which provides expertise to hedge funds, registered advisers, private equity funds, broker-dealers, and mutual funds. 2017 was another great year with
