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IHS Markit, a provider of critical information, analytics and solutions, has launched a new service designed to help investment firms comply with MiFID II’s RTS 28, which requires them to publicly report their top five trading venues by asset class.
Compliance with RTS 28 can be a burden because investment firms must create up to four documents for each of the 22 asset classes covered by the regulation, including equities and multiple types of debt instruments, OTC derivatives, structured products and emissions credits. Within each asset class, trades must be tabulated by customer type and order type and those reports
Unigestion, a boutique asset manager that focuses on providing its clients with risk-managed investment solutions, has expanded its fund distribution network by joining the MFEX platform.
The new agreement means that all Unigestion’s Uni-Global SICAV sub funds and share classes are now listed on the MFEX platform, which offers 50,000 funds to investors in 30 countries globally.
The availability of the Unigestion SICAV fund range on the MFEX platform marks the latest step in the firm’s growth in the intermediary market space, following its registration with Allfunds Bank in March this year. Both of these agreements have further enhanced
CubeLogic, a specialist in Business Intelligence products and services for risk management in the energy, commodity, and financial markets, has added support for Trade Credit Insurance to the latest release of version 6.0. of the RiskCubed platform.
Trade Credit Insurance is an increasingly popular tool to manage accounts receivable risk, effectively converting an unsecured, risky loan to secured collateral. As a trade finance instrument, the use of credit insurance is growing rapidly amongst energy market participants primarily due to its relatively low cost, ability to increase liquidity, and risk-conversion properties.
As most insurance providers will attest to, Trade Credit
C WorldWide Asset Management, a Danish based Asset Manager with DKK110 billion AuM, has extended its SimCorp Dimension license agreement to include Data Warehouse Manager and SimCorp Coric.
C WorldWide Asset Management will be replacing its current reporting solution with SimCorp Coric’s full end-to-end client communications suite, and for the first time, adopting digital reporting to its clients with SimCorp Coric Web Reporter. The move is designed to accommodate increasingly frequent and complex requests for data from investors. C WorldWide Asset Management’s Client Service teams will be empowered with the ability to design new reports as well as customise content
Multi-strategy hedge fund Whitebox Advisors has chosen Broadridge to provide a comprehensive, fully hosted and integrated platform of trading, portfolio management, reference data, reconciliation and data warehouse solutions for its front, middle and back-office operations.
Whitebox believes that moving to Broadridge’s hosted platform will enhance its ability to quickly respond to new growth opportunities.
Broadridge’s fully integrated solution will enable Whitebox to streamline and automate workflow around a complex array of traded instruments. Broadridge will be hosting Advent’s Geneva, thereby integrating Geneva with Broadridge’s data warehouse, HTML 5-based reporting solution and state-of-the-art order management / portfolio management/ risk management
Altegris, a provider of alternative investment strategies, has partnered with Artivest, a technology-driven alternative investments platform, to bring its investment capabilities to Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs), independent broker-dealers, family offices, private banks, and other financial advisors serving qualified high-net-worth investors.
The partnership launches Artivest’s capabilities to offer alternative solutions to Accredited Investors.
Through this partnership, which entails a transition of USD1 billion of Altegris’ assets and over 20 different fund strategies onto the Artivest digital platform, Altegris’ current and future financial advisors and clients will now be able to utilise streamlined, online tools for onboarding and executing subscriptions as
Technology innovation and evolution has had a profound effect on many jobs, perhaps most notably for a firm’s Chief Technology Officer. Once tasked with desktop support and server maintenance, these IT executives have seen their job descriptions change dramatically over the years. But that change doesn’t necessarily signal something negative.
This Private Equity CTO Survey asked these technology experts directly how they spend their time and what they view as the new and evolving role of the private equity CTO. Their answers highlight a transformative shift from technology troubleshooter to strategic thinker.
With the advent of outsourcing and the cloud, many
Cowen Inc and Cowen Execution Services (collectively, Cowen) have launched an enhanced ADR Direct client portal, which is designed to provide institutional investors with improved access to the global ADR marketplace.
Cowen’s ADR Direct platform and enhanced client portal allows investors to convert their ordinary shares into ADRs and to cost effectively manage market impact, reduce explicit execution costs and increase returns.
“Cowen’s suite of ADR products provides the marketplace with comprehensive solutions when converting ordinary shares to ADRs and ADRs to ordinary shares,” says Dan Charney (pictured), Cowen Managing Director and Head of Equities. “The recent enhancements to
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has added Shared Assessments’ Standardised Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaire to its Know Your Third Party Risk Management platform (KY3P).
IHS Markit, in collaboration with The Santa Fe Group, the managing agent of the Shared Assessments Program, now offers customers the flexibility to request the use of Standardised Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaire within KY3P. The SIG questionnaire is a comprehensive bank of questions aligned to industry standards and regulatory requirements, to determine how information technology and data security risks are managed across a broad spectrum of risk control areas.
“We
CAMRADATA, a provider of data and analysis for institutional investors, has released a white paper ‘Where lies the future of Multi Asset Credit?’ which the company compiled following a roundtable event with leading asset managers and investors held in June 2017.
The white paper considers the opportunities offered by Multi-Asset Credit (MAC) and investigates what the future holds for this asset class, both in this current macroeconomic climate and going forwards. Three MAC asset managers, Eaton Vance Investment Managers, Franklin Templeton Investments and Investec Asset Management also provided their own views and insights, helping to illustrate the benefit that can
