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eFront, a financial software and solutions provider for the alternative investments space, has launched eFront Insight which digitalises data exchanges between General Partners and Limited Partners, and boosts analytics and insight generation.
eFront Insight combines a GP data portal with industry benchmarks and third-party data, resulting in an advanced and sophisticated analytical platform with best-in-class user experience, adept at generating unique insights. eFront Insight is available for both Limited Partners and General Partners.
eFront Insight GP enables General Partners to streamline data reporting and fundraising. eFront Insight LP provides Limited Partners access to reliable investment and benchmark data and
UMB Fund Services has been named as a sponsor of the Hedge Fund Association’s (HFA) global Thought Leadership Council.
“As a long-term administrator in the alternative investments space, we are excited to further our commitment to the industry through sponsorship of the HFA Thought Leadership Council,” says Maureen Quill, president of UMB Fund Services. “We believe the work that HFA does to advance the hedge fund industry through education and transparency is beneficial not only to those in the alternative investments industry, but investors as a whole.”
“The HFA serves its members by producing top-level member networking and educational
A new report entitled ‘Alternative Investments 3.0 – digitize or jeopardize’ from KPMG International and CREATE-Research finds that digital technologies are radically reshaping the alternative investment industry, but a large majority of hedge funds and private equity firms appear to be too slow to respond.
The report was based on a global survey of 125 hedge funds and private equity firms and conducted by KPMG International and CREATE-Research.
While 98 per cent of respondents say ‘business as usual’ is not an option, at least three out of five respondents said they are still at the nascent stage of ‘awareness raising’
SharesPost has launched a new Digital Securities Group allowing token issuers and investors to use SharesPost’s existing Alternative Trading System to invest in ICO’s and trade in digital securities in compliance with US securities laws.
Entrepreneur and private market investor, John Wu, has been named CEO of the Digital Securities Group. His group will work with SharesPost Financial Corp to manage security token ICO’s on the platform and secondary trading of digital assets.
Investors will benefit from SharesPost’s proven transaction capabilities in unregistered securities and the digital custody capability of SharesPost’s Private Brokerage Accounts. Investors will also be able
The European Energy Exchange (EEX), Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy have partnered to offer German Power CFDs (Contracts for Differences) on Saxo’s fully integrated trading and risk management platform, SaxoTraderGO.
Saxo’s new German Power CFD will be linked exclusively to prices established in EEX’s Phelix-DE orderbook and will cover both Phelix-DE Base and Peak Futures with monthly, quarterly and yearly expiries.
Through the cooperation with Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy (who will act as market maker for the German Power CFD’s on the Saxo platform), a new and broader range of potential trading participants will now have access to EEX’s
MDX Technology’s MDXT Connect app is now available on the Symphony Market. The new app offers integration capabilities with a wide range of industry standard platforms, enabling users to publish real-time market data, like prices, axes, IOIs, etc, into the Symphony environment and collaborate more effectively with counter-parties, both internally and externally.
The MDXT Connect App is available immediately for download and evaluation. Additional collaboration features are planned over the coming months.
Paul Watmough (pictured), CEO at MDX Technology says: “Data is now recognised as being one of the most valuable, but least exploited assets that exists within every
Exchange Data International (EDI) has launched a new Option Analytics service, which covers over 10 million options and futures contracts and 10,000 issuers.
The service uses daily updates and historical data to provide end-of-day analytics and reference data for US and international exchange-listed options on equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs), equity indexes, and futures.
The service includes daily calculations of nine End of Day Options Sensitivities (Greeks – Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho, Vanna, Volga, Speed, Lambda) and five End of Day Implied Volatilities and Interpolated Volatility Surfaces. It also provides Historical Volatilities time series for periods from 10 to 180 days.
Clients with access to
SimCorp has launched new modules and enhancements for Release 6.3 of its flagship solution, SimCorp Dimension, including a new Alternative Investments Manager, which enables buy-side firms to handle illiquid, alternative investment types, such as Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure, alongside more traditional assets.
The Alternative Investments Manager is designed to offer the buy-side market an automated solution for its alternative investments, dispelling the need for niche systems and manual processes. Users can fully integrate the module with SimCorp Dimension’s IBOR (Investment Book of Record) to effectively support multi-asset investment strategies in one highly automated system.
As part of
A new report sponsored by Linedata examines the application and benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to the buy-side and what is required from both partners and regulators to facilitate, accelerate and maximise those benefits.
‘Distributed Ledger Technology – An Emerging Consensus on the Buy-Side’ – is based on interviews with Asset Managers, Vendors, FinTechs, Service Providers and Consultants and is co-authored by well-known industry consultants Dr Ian Hunt and Chris Mills.
The report captures the optimism of DLT and blockchain, as well as identifying the most effective contribution which could be made to the acceleration of DLT benefits
The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and the clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) have reduced the lead-time to five minutes before delivery for local Austrian and French contracts, and to 30 minutes before delivery for local Swiss contracts.
The lead-time reduction from previously 30 minutes for Austria and France, and from 60 minutes for Switzerland, was implemented on 31 January on the respective continuous markets. The lead-time for cross-border trades remains unchanged at 60 minutes.
In intraday trading, lead-time refers to the minimum time between the execution of a trade and the delivery of the traded electricity. With
