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Visible Alpha has acquired Alpha Exchange, a research, discovery and management platform for investment professionals.
Visible Alpha says that the addition of Alpha Exchange’s technology platform to its existing services will create a unified consumption and collaboration experience across research reports, analyst models and corporate access events backed by a robust compliance framework.
Since Visible Alpha’s commercial launch in February 2017, the company has been helping investment firms of all sizes and geographies become MiFID II compliant with research tracking and valuation tools, while enabling idea discovery through its analyst model and deep consensus platform. Currently, more than 80
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has partnered with eFront to provide members with eFront Data Intelligence (EDI).
EDI, formerly known as eFront Investor Cloud (EIC), provides limited partners with access to high quality and verified private market data at an unprecedented level of granularity. It combines financial and operational data with KPIs at the manager, fund and underlying asset level. This data enables limited partners to perform sophisticated analysis and generate new levels of insight through eFront, and other analytical platforms, which in turn helps investment managers make more informed decisions. EDI also offers ILPA Reporting Template users an
By Amanda Daly – Cyber threats are on the rise and are increasingly becoming more sophisticated. It can be a daunting task to stay on top of new and evolving attacks and breaches, which is why proactively implementing the right technical and administrative safeguards are essential.
In a recent webinar, speakers from Eze Castle Integration talked about strategies and best practices for cybersecurity preparedness. In case you missed it, here’s a recap of the key elements to help avoid being the next cyber target.
1: Understand the Cyber Threats
Understanding the types of cyber threats facing your organization allows you to
Following on the tried and tested UCITS experience and further strengthened by AIFMD, the delegation ManCo model has been successfully operated for many years and an entire ecosystem has been built around it, allowing among other benefits significant amounts of capital to be attracted to the EU.
The partnership approach carries a number of advantages. It allows fund managers to test the waters of a new market before developing their own full-fledged AIFM presence if they wish, in their own time. For managers without a European presence, the delegated model is the quickest and easiest route to market, and the
Fuchs Asset Management SA is a family-owned group located in three jurisdictions: Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. It has roughly 160 people and operates five different business lines: wealth management for UHNW individuals, family office services, brokerage of life insurance products, trading execution & support via its dealing desk and third party management company services.
With regards to the third party ManCo, Fuchs Asset Management sits plum in the mid-market and looks to partner with entrepreneurial fund managers eager to grow their business.
As CEO Timothe Fuchs explains, at present there is a barbell effect happening within the market. At one
Metamako, a leading provider of ultra-low latency, FPGA-enabled network platforms, has achieved China Compulsory Certification (CCC) paving the way for the company to deliver on its strategy of expansion in Asia.
The CCC is a requirement for technology companies to sell their hardware in China and the certification now gives Metamako fully-regulated access to the enormous Chinese market. Metamako’s first products to be certified include the MetaConnect 48 low-latency layer 1+ switch and the MetaMux 48 series of switches, which are FPGA-enabled devices.
Kevin Covington (pictured), CEO of Metamako, says: “Metamako is having an amazing year and the certification
KYC Global Technologies is partnering with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, strengthening the positioning of the Jersey-based company’s RiskScreen product range.
The partnership enhances the ability of RiskScreen users to identify customers and companies with characteristics that indicate heightened financial crime risk by providing access to Dow Jones’ sanctions, watch list, adverse media and PEP data.
KYC Global Technologies Group is a Jersey-owned compliance technology business that builds innovative RegTech solutions designed to manage financial crime risk, including the cutting-edge customer screening solution RiskScreen. In addition to the integration of Dow Jones data, the company has also recently launched
LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based provider of buy-and sell-side trading solutions, has launched LBX Outsourced Trader, an advanced POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) with fully integrated FIX connectivity.
The system has been developed specifically with the unique needs of an outsourced trading firm, who share elements of both a buy- and sell-side trading desk, in mind.
Like all LiquidityBook’s trading solutions, LBX Outsourced Trader is built on a single source code and not an amalgamation of various acquired components. It offers global, multi-asset trading capabilities providing advanced OMS functionality – including Order and Ticket Staging, Auto Marking,
NEX has signed a Statement of Commitment to adopt the principles of the FX Global Code across its EBS FX trading platforms and NEX Optimisation services.
NEX announced the signing of the Statement of Commitment and introduced a new NEX public register at the Global Foreign Exchange Committee meeting held at the NEX offices in London on 14 November 2017.
The purpose of the register is to raise awareness of those that have signed their Statement of Commitment to the Code. All 45 representatives from the Market Participants Group (“MPG”) signed a Statement of Intent once the Code was
FIX Trading Community has released its Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II.
MiFID II has introduced the requirement to explicitly separate commissions into their component parts (eg execution, research) with a focus on the specific identification of the research component of the commission. In addition, MiFID II has introduced the concept of a research-payment account (RPA). Previously, commission payments were generally handled in the background by Commission Sharing Agreements (CSA).
Over the past two years, FIX members have debated and discussed the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) terminology and responded to updates across a
