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OP Investment Management (OPIM), a member of the Oriental Patron Financial Group, has made a strategic investment in Fundseeder Holdings (Fundseeder), an emerging financial software company located in Florida, United States.
OPIM is a leading hedge fund structuring and incubation platform based in Hong Kong. The firm partners with Asian investment managers to build offshore hedge fund products, combining early stage track records with the firm’s institutional infrastructure and ecosystem. OPIM also works with established institutional investors, funds of funds, and family offices to evaluate undiscovered trading talent in the ever-expanding emerging manager space.
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Cowen Inc has been named Best North American Prime Broker at the 2017 Hedgeweek USA Awards for the third consecutive year.
The award is based on a peer review system whereby Hedgeweek’s readers, including institutional and high net worth investors, as well as hedge fund managers and other industry professionals at fund administrators, prime brokers, law firms, custodians, and advisers, select the top performer in a series of categories.
Jack D Seibald (pictured), Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage Services, said, “We are proud that we have again earned the Best North American Prime Broker Award from Hedgeweek and are
McKay Brothers International (MBI) is to connect UK data centres Slough-LD4 and Basildon with trading hubs in Milan and Zurich at the lowest known latencies.
The company expects its new private bandwidth service between the UK and Milan’s I.Net data centre to go live in mid-October. The private bandwidth service between the UK and Zurich is expected to be live in the first quarter of next year.
“Milan and Zurich are important trading centres for our subscribers,” says MBI managing director Francois Tyc (pictured). “We are thrilled to extend our European network and offer our subscribers a level
SIX Swiss Exchange has joined the xyt hub to provide high quality tick data to its trading participants, enabling them to develop, evaluate and backtest new trading and execution strategies while providing greater transparency over trading activity.
Connected to more than 100 venues globally and across asset classes, the xyt hub launched in September 2017 to enable the global trading community to integrate tick data and analytics in a more convenient and cost-effective way, via a single API. The xyt hub allows trading firms to consume, analyse and visualise all the data they require through cloud-based technologies, featuring Data-as-a-Service and
Third Financial Software (TFS) has completed the next major release of its Tercero software, which focuses on compliance under the forthcoming MiFID II regime. TFS is in the process of upgrading all customers to be in line with the regulatory changes.
Managing Director, Ricky Ali (pictured), says: “In building these significant and essential enhancements into the core foundation of our Tercero software, we drew on contributions from multiple investment firms and external consultants, including PIMFA, and developed the most relevant and useful solution for the wide range of regulatory requirements under MiFID II.”
The new release targets all of the essential MiFID
Banca Generali and Saxo Bank are to establish an exclusive partnership to offer online trading and digital services.
The objective is to offer clients, on an exclusive basis for the Italian market, access to an innovative platform for advanced trading, based on Saxo Bank’s technology and managed by a newly established SIM owned by Banca Generali and Saxo Bank.
The new platform will enhance the offering available to Banca Generali financial advisors, allowing the access to tailor-made operations and to innovative solutions of dynamic hedging that can be offered to both private and corporate clients. This is a further
By George Ralph, RFA – Firms which may be considering a move, partial or otherwise, to cloud-based services, will need to work through a checklist to ensure all the bases are covered, that the firm is not exposed to any forthcoming regulations, and that the data will be adequately protected.
It’s a common misconception that the cloud is not as secure as on-premise infrastructure. This is perpetrated by high profile stories of data breaches and compromised security, and the fear is widespread. According to Alert Logic’s Cybersecurity Trends 2017 Spotlight Report, which surveyed companies in the UK, Benelux and Nordics,
Cegeka and the Amsterdam Trade Bank (ATB) have developed and delivered a blockchain solution for trade financing. Both parties expect this solution to lead to considerable productivity gains and enable ATB to further expand its operations in a market currently dominated by much larger players.
ATB is a European merchant bank focusing on the commodity value chain. The application at hand is specifically geared towards one of its core products, namely transactional lending. Whilst being the archetypal trade financing instrument, this is typically both labour and paper intensive, and, at times, associated with “traditional” (if not archaic) modus operandi.
Trade Informatics, a provider of quantitative analytics and systematic trading solutions to institutional asset managers, has released the latest addition to its product suite – Peer Analysis.
The buy-side has come to rely on peer reporting to benchmark themselves relative to industry competitors and to satisfy the needs of asset owners demanding performance and accountability. Trade Informatics takes a differentiated approach to peer analysis, offering a product designed to be actionable and consumable. More than a check the box solution, the Trade Informatics Peer Analysis solution is designed to answer the questions “are any of my peers better than me? If
Fund and corporate services provider Alter Domus has launched a new third party AIFM management service offering, as it continues to enhance its vertically integrated range of services to the alternative funds market.
Alter Domus has signed an agreement to acquire Luxembourg Fund Partners, subject to the usual regulatory approvals from the Luxembourg regulator. On completion of the deal, Alter Domus will be able to provide set-up support, administration and management company services to international fund promoters.
Luxembourg Fund Partners was founded in 2009 by Luc Leleux and Julien Renaux as an independent management company focusing on integrated investment
