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Triad Securities is expanding into the Boston area with the hiring of Tom Landsbergen as director, prime brokerage sales.
Landsbergen (pictured) has over 22 years' experience in the prime brokerage industry.
Before joining Triad, he was responsible for prime brokerage sales and client service for JP Morgan and Bear Stearns in New England and Canada for 16 years. Prior to that, he held various positions with the prime brokerage platforms of Furman Selz/ING Barings. Landsbergen has extensive experience assisting clients on financing, clearing, recruiting, marketing, service provider selection, investor relations, and treasury functions.
"I am excited to join Triad,"
Confluence predicts that the rise of regulatory technology (RegTech) in 2017 will trigger a transformation of the asset management back office, with improved data management and technology solutions delivering operating model improvements through automation.
A subset of FinTech, RegTech consists of technologies proven to facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements faster and more cost-effectively than existing capabilities.
For asset managers, RegTech will be particularly meaningful in solving complex regulatory data management challenges and complying with condensed reporting cycles, Confluence says.
“Next year will be a pivotal year in the future of the asset management industry,” says Todd Moyer
Investment management platform provider TORA has launched a multi-asset charting technology powered by ChartIQ.
The fully integrated tool, which supplements TORA’s existing charting technology, provides an intuitive charting platform featuring a full suite of drawing tools and technical indicators.
Combining real-time streaming market data with an HTML5-based architecture, the charting tools enable analysis of equities, derivatives and FX instruments in a fully customisable manner. Developed with an optimised trading workflow in mind, the new tool allows users to trade directly from charts and plot fills against real-time market data.
Oren Blonstein (pictured), global head of product at TORA,
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has appointed Luke Ellis, CEO of Man Group, and Henry Kenner, CEO and founder of Arrowgrass Capital Partners, to its board.
The appointments come at a time when the HFSB is seeing global growth in the managers and institutional investors supporting the Hedge Fund Standards.
In 2016, 19 additional managers became signatories to the Standards. Also in 2016, six additional institutional investors overseeing USD220 billion in capital joined the HFSB Investor Chapter.
The HFSB is forming a working group on liquid alternatives. Given the growth in regulated alternative investment funds in the
100 Women in Hedge Funds has launched a new brand and formally changed its name to 100 Women in Finance.
The organisation says the change reflects its growth over the past 15 years from a small group of women working in the hedge fund industry in New York to a global network of more than 15,000 professionals across the finance and alternative investment industries.
As part of the new brand refresh, 100 Women in Finance unveiled a new logo and visual identity system and introduced a redesigned website, accessible at www.100women.org.
"100 Women was among the first organisations
Increased protection against growing cybersecurity threats will be a top driver impact private equity firms’ IT spend in the next 12 months, according to a survey by Eze Castle Integration.
The 2016 Private Equity CTO Survey, conducted in partnership with IDG Research, polled 101 senior-level executives.
It found other top drivers of IT spend are a desire to improve the investor/client experience, and the goal of improving efficiencies by refreshing outdated or legacy technology.
Cloud computing was identified by nearly 90 per cent of respondents as a planned investment area, with respondents preferring private cloud solutions over
Cordium, a provider of governance, risk and compliance services to financial and professional services firms, has appointed Richard Hudson as vice president of its cybersecurity and data protection consulting services.
Hudson (pictured) joins from Mizuho Bank where he was the Information Security Officer for 17 years and managed the information security program for all offices in North and South America.
He has over 25 years of experience working in an information security role as well as ensuring cybersecurity programmes comply with regulatory requirements.
At Cordium, Hudson will be assisting clients in assessing cybersecurity risks and providing ongoing guidance
LiquidityBook has integrated FactSet’s real-time global exchange, reference and benchmark data within both the Buy-Side LBX and Sell-Side LBX POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) platforms.
The data can be leveraged globally across all asset classes supported by LiquidityBook – equities, options, futures, fixed income and FX.
With the integration, clients are able to access intraday holdings and trade files in LBX and perform detailed analyses with FactSet’s real-time portfolio analytics and optimisation tools. The combined offering is currently being leveraged by several clients, including Crow Point Partners, which recently implemented the LBX platform across its front-, middle- and back-office
Charles River Development has signed an agreement with CenturyLink, opening up its software-as-a-service offerings to buy-side clients in Canada.
"We've been broadening our hosted services since 2005, and the addition of CenturyLink's on-the-ground facilities and support assures even more clients that we can process and protect their sensitive data," says Tom Driscoll (pictured), global managing director, Charles River. "Our newest functionality in the Charles River investment management solution is SaaS-based. Our agreement with CenturyLink lets clients take full advantage of hosted capabilities regardless of their location."
Charles River's fully managed, private cloud solution is ISO 27001 certified and helps
Linedata has integrated its order management system (OMS) powered by Longview, with Integral Development Corp’s InvestorFX.
Linedata’s OMS solution delivers an integrated approach to meeting the needs of the front and middle office of institutional, wealth and alternative firms, including portfolio management, trading, compliance and risk.
InvestorFX is an FX trading platform, combining best execution, optimal netting plans and fairness of allocations for investment managers to execute FX trade lists.
“We are pleased to partner with Linedata, which delivers flexible and comprehensive asset management solutions to global institutional and alternative communities,” says Harpal Sandhu, CEO, Integral Development Corp.
