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Man AHL, Man Group’s diversified quantitative investment manager, has launched the second annual Man AHL Coder Prize, a coding competition for students with a top prize of GBP5,000.
The Man AHL Coder Prize, which launched last year for students in the UK and Ireland, is now also open to entrants based in the EU or Switzerland, who are aged 16-25 and in full time education.
Entrants will be tasked with writing code using Python, the programming language which Man AHL uses for its systematic models, to control a player for Man AHL’s homemade game HiveMinder.
The seven coders
IPC, a provider of communications and networking solutions, has joined the Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) to provide access via its Connexus Cloud solution to cloud providers available in Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Customers can access the Equinix eco-system of more than 500 cloud service providers delivered via IPC's Connexus Cloud, a private financial markets network with over 200,000 users across 6,000 market participant locations in 700 cities.
Through the Equinix Cloud Exchange, IPC is able to provide the benefits of the cloud to customers adopting SaaS offerings while leveraging
Liberum, a pan-European investment bank, signed a multi-year deal with Torstone Technology to use Inferno in July and went live last week, implementing a complete back office system within four months.
Inferno will process Liberum’s post-trade flow, from trade capture through to settlement, accounting and reconciliation.
The ability to easily scale-up its business operations and update processes to comply with regulatory requirements was a key driver behind Liberum’s move to Inferno.
Inferno is an automated scalable system, which can handle large volumes on hosted commodity hardware. Its real-time, event-driven, service-orientated architecture enables firms to achieve very high rates
In this Q&A, Geoff Ruddick of IMS Fund Services explains why ‘governance is not a game’, and how capacity, form over substance, and board composition, remain fundamental issues…
You mentioned in your last article that ‘Governance is not a game’ – can you expand on what you meant by that statement?
Unfortunately, in the past few years fundamental governance related issues such as capacity (numbers), substance over form (form over substance), and board composition (split boards), have been used as marketing pitches. These are fundamental governance issues yet the sales side of the issue is increasingly the focus of attention.
Yes,
SimCorp has partnered with Cassini Systems, a provider of pre-trade analytics solutions for OTC trading, to offer its clients access to Cassini’s analytics solution through SimCorp Dimension.
The partnership aims to help firms that use derivatives to improve their assessment of the total cost of trade to make more informed investment decisions.
The evolving regulatory landscape, including regulations such as Dodd-Frank, EMIR and MiFID II, has altered the operational environment for investment management firms. Central clearing obligations and increased margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives require firms to demonstrate that they have a holistic view of their risk, collateral,
The recent inward migration of several companies and funds into Guernsey is thanks to the island’s reputation as the number one jurisdiction outside of the UK for London Stock Exchange (LSE) listings, an audience at a seminar in Singapore has heard.
The event, which considered Guernsey’s expertise in both the investment fund and private wealth sectors, was the first ever to be hosted by Guernsey Finance in Singapore and featured presentations from leading offshore lawyers, Leon Santos of Collas Crill and Russell Clark of Carey Olsen.
The seminar was part of the agency’s increased focus on Asia, which includes
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is organising a roundtable with the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law to discuss the feasibility of introducing the dual-class shares structure in the local market.
The “Roundtable on Dual-Class Shares Structure and the Singapore Context” taking place on 14 November 2016, is part of SGX’s process of gathering feedback and engaging with stakeholders on an issue that has generated debate from stakeholders across the spectrum.
Featuring six speakers and moderated by Professor Hans Tjio of NUS Law who is co-director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law, the roundtable discussion will be
Object Trading, a provider of multi-asset trading infrastructure, now fully conforms to Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) latest trading platform, Titan.
Upgrading to Nasdaq’s Genium INET platform enables SGX to offer enhancements and new features to participants including new connectivity protocols, extended trading hours, and enhanced risk controls; and delivers the ability to support increasing growth and interest in the Asian derivatives markets.
Object Trading will continue to handle market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints for its clients trading on SGX, via its own Direct Market Access (DMA) Platform. Object Trading enables market participants to maintain existing, or facilitate
Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, based in Luxembourg, has selected PFS‐PAXUS for the administration of its funds services.
Carlo Reding (pictured), partner of Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services, says: “After a thorough evaluation process we identified that PFS‐PAXUS was going to be a great fit for our business. The breadth of functionality available within the system is very extensive and will put us in an ideal position to administer almost any fund structure that we might be presented with.”
Incorporated in 2009, Grant Thornton ABAX Investment Services is regulated by the CSSF and provides services such as transfer agent,
REDI Global Technologies and S3 Partners have teamed up to provide REDI’s clients with access to S3's Blacklight platform, a suite of treasury management reporting and analysis tools designed to provide security, stability and franchise longevity.
Michael Rude (pictured), REDI's chief revenue officer, says: "This partnership with S3 Partners allows us to provide REDI users with an extremely valuable suite of treasury management data and reporting tools to support long-term business growth and stability. Intelligence of this nature is more important than ever, and we're pleased to introduce it to our clients."
Blacklight centralises, fortifies and reconciles treasury management
