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Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) ICE Data Services has expanded coverage for its best execution service to include sovereign and corporate bonds in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Best execution leverages ICE’s fixed income Continuous Evaluated Pricing to measure best execution, and offers a trade-by-trade measure of execution quality relative to comparable market transactions.
The launch of best execution in EMEA comes as European regulators are moving to expand transparency in fixed income securities. In particular, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) formalised rules that require investment firms to maintain records quantifying the transaction quality of
Chi-X Japan will launch a new venue, Kai-X, on 17 October, having gained final regulatory approvals and registration with Japan’s Financial Services Agency.
Kai-X is a Reference Price trading venue where investors can anonymously execute trades at prices equal to or better than those available on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
Trading will be enabled at prices equal to the TSE reference prices of best bid or best offer as well as the derived mid-point between the TSE best bid and best offer prices.
CEO Tony Mackay says Japanese traders may also use Minimum Execution Quantity (MEQ) to
Edelman is one of the highest profile PR agencies in the world. With 65 global offices, Edelman is uniquely positioned within the communications marketing arena.
Edelman's Financial Communications & Capital Markets' global team focuses on reputation management, executive positioning and thought leadership development, strategic investment communications, financial media relations and communications planning and implementation. The team also supports a range of clients on special situations spanning shareholder activism, transactions, litigation and regulatory matters.
With respect to alternative investment funds, Edelman has an impressive roster of clients including Citadel, Highbridge and AQR, to name but a few. At the heart of
It’s been a year since Cowen Group acquired Concept Capital (now known as Cowen Prime Services) and it’s safe to say that the year has been a productive one. Soon after Concept’s acquisition, Cowen Group also acquired the Conifer Securities prime brokerage and outsourced trading business.
As Jack Seibald, Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage, Cowen Prime Services confirms, since April this year, when the Conifer business was merged into Cowen Prime Services’ existing broker-dealer, the combined team has been busy integrating the businesses and commenced operating as one group.
“We’ve now accomplished that and successfully integrated personnel and systems,” says
ACA Aponix, a division of ACA Compliance Group, provides financial services firms with a 360-degree, independent approach to technology risk and governance. Conducting a comprehensive risk assessment helps fund mangers to identify potential gaps and vulnerabilities, which the ACA Aponix team works through with each client to mitigate these risks.
"Our product offering encompasses cyber risk assessments as well as conducting mock audits, to not only help our clients prepare for a regulator visit but also test their ability to respond to a cyber breach, were it to happen," comments Anand Mohabir, Senior Principal Consultant.
At a high level, the
Boston-based FundCount was established in 1999 and according to Mike Slemmer, Chief Operating Officer of the Americas, it is one of the industry's 'best kept secrets'.
"We have great technical capability. Our employees are passionate about this industry and giving clients the best tools. One of the strengths of FundCount is that we listen carefully to every client. FundCount's evolution over the last few years has been a joint effort with our clients," says Slemmer.
FundCount started life as a technology company focused on the hedge fund industry. As it worked on custom projects with more and more hedge funds,
Multi-award-winning hedge fund administrator Opus Fund Services was established in Bermuda in 2006, subsequently expanding its footprint into the US with offices in Chicago (2008), San Francisco (2009), New York (2013) and Portland (2014). It serves over 250 fund managers and 425-plus funds with a combined AUM approaching USD13 billion.
2016 has been a year of organic growth for Opus, as evidenced by the recent establishment of a new operations centre in Manila, The Philippines.
“This development provides a scalable round the clock support mechanism to greatly increase processing power and allow us to deliver our innovative technology platform and
Nasdaq is recognised as one of the world's leading technology companies, from the financial technology and corporate and data services it provide to hundreds of capital market operators and regulators around the world, to being the listings home of the world's greatest technology companies and young startups blossoming from Silicon Valley and Alley.
The company operates one of the largest networks with its technology driving more than 70 marketplaces in 50 countries and supporting some 41,000 indices across multiple asset classes.
"Nasdaq is the biggest single pool of liquidity in US securities, across Nasdaq-listed securities, NYSE-listed securities, and Exchange Traded
Maitland is one of the industry's largest independent hedge fund administrators with USD280 billion in AuA. With more than 1,300 employees across 16 offices globally, Maitland is more than a fund administrator. It is a global advisory group, with its roots as an innovative law firm in Luxembourg in 1976 offering cross-border structuring solutions to corporates and some of the world's wealthiest families.
This in-house legal and tax expertise, as well as Maitland's independence, set it apart from most other fund administrators – and means that it is ahead of the game when it comes to administrators moving up the
New York-based Meyler Capital has been ‘shredding decks and driving change' since 2012. The firm re-envisions the marketing process used for raising capital.
"This industry still doesn't acknowledge the engagement points to the marketing deck, and that is the overall message we are trying to convey. How do you create engaging content and an engaging message to keep an audience interested? Producing quarterly commentaries or executive summaries isn't enough. It doesn't break through any barriers. But that's how the industry has tended to operate," says Kyle Dunn (pictured), CEO at Meyler Capital.
The creative team at Meyler Capital brings to
