Solutions
Competition among managers for capital in the alternative investment sector has never been greater. Similarly, as fund service providers vie for business in a crowded market place, it is important for firms to stand out from the crowd, writes Paul Bannier of Icorserv, on behalf of the Guernsey Investment Fund Association.
One way in which they can do that is to consider their responses to the ever-increasing number of due diligence requests.
In the case of fund managers, the primary focus is often on investment due diligence and demonstrating to potential investors that the firm has the resources, expertise and
Thomson Reuters is now offering an Investment Research Marketplace on its flagship desktop product Eikon, a solution that enables buy-side firms to purchase research from sell-side contributors designed to inform and complement their investment processes.
This solution also helps facilitate buy-side compliance with MiFID II research unbundling requirements.
Thomson Reuters Investment Research Marketplace in Eikon will host subscription based collections of a select number of global sell-side contributors. Buy-side firms will be able to purchase these research collections by contracting directly with Thomson Reuters, and then consume them via Eikon. Any research acquired will be seamlessly integrated with all Eikon research
Linedata, a solutions and outsourcing services provider to the investment management and credit finance industries, has launched an enhanced version of its business process management (BPM) tool, Linedata Optima, to unlock operational, fund and system data.
This latest update introduces a new interactive dashboard, offering detailed visualisation of real-time data and drill down capabilities. Fully auditable records can be visualised in multiple ways to aid process analysis and optimise resource allocation. This consolidated view provides a one stop shop to view key performance and risk metrics, analyse and visualise data to better manage the business.
Jon Trinder (pictured), Product
Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent provider of algorithms and data-driven analytics for futures and US cash treasury markets, has launched a new trade simulation tool on the Bloomberg App Portal.
The two complementary apps enable traders to use QB’s electronic trading technology with data and functionality on the Bloomberg Terminal.
QB released enhancements to its suite of premium algorithms — Bolt, Strobe, Legger and Closer — for Bloomberg App Portal users. This suite, which is now available at {APPS QB <GO>}, can help futures and fixed income investors achieve best execution. These algos and QB’s trade cost analysis (TCA) give traders sophisticated
INDOS Financial Limited (INDOS), a UK independent depositary, has passed the milestone of undertaking depositary services for 100 alternative investment funds with assets over USD20 billion.
These figures represent a substantial growth in the business of 37 per cent in the number of funds (from 73) and 54 per cent in assets under depositary (from USD13 billion) since end-December 2016.
Bill Prew (pictured), INDOS CEO explains that the added value arising from the employment of an independent depositary, as opposed to a depositary affiliated to the fund administrator, was becoming increasingly recognised by fund managers, fund directors and investors.
Cambridge Blockchain has formed a strategic alliance with IHS Markit through which the companies will offer integrated reference data, operations, and software to support utilities for the collection and management of know-your-customer information (KYC).
Financial institutions face growing compliance challenges related to identity, with KYC costs that can exceed USD500 million annually for large banks. Strict data privacy rules such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) additionally limit the ability to access validated customer identity attributes, with potential fines up to EUR20 million or 4 per cent of worldwide revenues.
The combination of IHS Markit’s kyc.com services
New UK market entrant Havelock London has appointed Link Asset Services as the Authorised Fund Manager (AFM) for the launch of its inaugural fund later this year.
Havelock London intends to combine traditional investment management with modern data science and technology. It will focus on a small number of well-understood investments, and identify long-term value opportunities as a result of extensive data analysis and a disciplined investment selection process.
Link’s appointment as AFM to Havelock London follows a series of new wins for Link’s fund solutions team following its sale to Australia’s Link Group in November 2017 and cements its
Speakerbus and Insightful Technology have formed a new partnership designed to drive enhanced compliance capabilities and improved productivity throughout the trading lifecycle.
The combined solution facilitates seamless integration, enabling detailed analysis of all voice trading conversations, together with all other multimedia trading data. Everything is delivered in real-time, provided via a single, hierarchical view of all business interactions globally.
The new solution integrates Speakerbus’s entire portfolio of high-performance trading management solutions with Insightful Technology’s Soteria software, a multimedia capture, analytics, e-surveillance and case reconstruction platform. This best-in-class offering of hardware, management software and service will provide many benefits. For
Options, a provider of global market data and co-location services for trading firms, has launched direct access to the NYSE Integrated Feed.
The new service will be available to clients leveraging Option’s ultra-low latent connectivity and managed colocation platform in Mahwah, Carteret, NY4 and NJ2.
The NYSE Integrated Feed (v2.1) provides a comprehensive order-by-order view of events in the equities market. The single, high performance data feed integrates orders and trades in sequence for NYSE, NYSE American and NYSE Arca markets, providing a more deterministic and transparent view of the order book and related activity. The direct market data feed
Align, a provider of technology infrastructure solutions, is expanding its presence in the Dallas/Ft Worth area, driven by millions of dollars of new data centre projects from a growing Texas client base.
The company’s presence in this key market reflects the growing demand for its full suite of data centre solutions including site selection, white space design and infrastructure fit-out, IT moves and application migrations, and managed service offerings. The company also secured new office space in Legacy West to support this activity and is hiring additional SME professionals to capitalise on extensive growth in the 2nd largest data centre
