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Circle Partners (Circle) is an independent fund administrator with offices across the EU, the Americas and Hong Kong. Circle has the ability to set up sub-funds on its Luxembourg SICAV and guide start-up managers through the whole process of bringing a new fund to market in all major fund jurisdictions.
By extension, Circle has a large network of local counterparties based in Malta and as Peter Jakubicka (pictured), Business Development Manager at Circle explains: "We can offer a `one-stop shop' solution from the set-up phase through to launch including brokers, custodians, auditors; basically all of the functions that are required
The shock Brexit result this June sent ripples across Europe as individual Member States absorbed the news. And whilst some jurisdictions have been quick to seize the initiative on the back of the uncertainty that UK firms face – especially as it relates to passporting for London's much lauded financial services industry – Malta is focusing on maintaining the harmonious relationship it has with the UK.
"We see ourselves partnering with UK operators to provide solutions to help them sustain their business models; we're not looking to try and take business away from the UK," comments Kenneth Farrugia (pictured), Chairman
FundCount, a Boston-based provider of integrated investment, partnership and general ledger accounting software, has been named Best Fund Accounting and Reporting Systems Firm by readers of Hedgeweek.
Hedgeweek provides news and information to hedge funds and institutional investors around the globe. The annual Hedgeweek USA Awards, which are determined by a peer review system, recognise excellence in the industry.
“We are honoured to receive this award, which is testament to the benefits that our accounting and investment analysis software brings to the hedge fund, private equity and asset management community,” says Alex Ivanov, CEO and founder of FundCount.
Yieldbroker, Australia’s over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate exchange, has become the first foreign-regulated, multilateral swap trading facility to receive long-term approval to access US-based customers.
Yieldbroker says the move secures billions of dollars of trade business, removes commercial uncertainty and is one more step towards achieving the company’s vision of becoming a globally significant platform for trading in Australian and New Zealand dollar interest rate securities.
More than 100 major financial institutions access over 900 debt securities and interest rate derivatives on the Yieldbroker exchange, trading approximately USD200 billion each month.
Founded in1999 by banks in local debt markets,
Ancoa, a provider of market surveillance and analytics to exchanges, regulators, buy and sell-side firms, has been accredited by Trayport, a provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges, as a Trayport Certified Software Provider (CSP).
Trayport's CSP programme is designed to enable third party suppliers to connect to the Trayport system in order to better support mutual clients.
Trayport’s conformance testing ensures peace of mind for both the provider and clients ensuring security, stability and reliability against Trayport technology.
The changing regulatory landscape means that many energy market participants now require surveillance and analytics tools to
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange’s (TOCOM) new trading system, which is powered by Nasdaq's Genium INET technology, as well as Nasdaq Pre-Trade Risk and SMARTS Market Surveillance solutions, is now up and running.
The new system is now fully integrated with the Osaka Exchange's derivatives trading system (J-GATE), which also runs on the same Nasdaq trading technology.
The approach of a mutually-shared trading system between two separate exchanges is one of first of its kind in the world. Nasdaq and TOCOM have been technology partners since 2009.
"We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to our partner Nasdaq who has contributed to the
Independent broker and financial technology provider ITG’s PowerMatch functionality, which provides POSIT Alert’s highest-performing users with notification of larger trading opportunities, is delivering average block sizes of 66,000 shares in the US and 85,000 shares in Canada.
This is about two times larger than average human trade sizes in POSIT Alert overall.
For small cap names, PowerMatch offers average block sizes which amount to 39 per cent of average daily volume (ADV) in the US and 27 per cent of ADV in Canada, as of August 2016.
PowerMatch notifications are available to all POSIT Alert participants with PowerMatch
Russell Rhoads, Director of Education, CBOE Options Institute, says this year’s speakers and topics make the 2016 CBOE Risk Management Conference a key event…
In less than two weeks CBOE will host the fifth annual European version of our Risk Management Conference (RMC). This year we return to Ireland and the Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa, which is just outside Dublin. Two years ago RMC Europe was held at the same location which was recently named the Best Luxury Resort Spa in Ireland at the World Luxury Spa Awards.
The location is great, but the speakers and topics that will
Infront, a trading and information solution provider for professional investors, has partnered with RSRCHXchange to provide its institutional clients with access to the RSRCHX platform, an online marketplace for institutional research.
The partnership makes institutional research from more than 140 research providers available on the Infront Terminal from 21 September.
It will provide Infront clients with a seamless integration between global real-time market information and research published on RSRCHX.
The RSRCHX platform is a research aggregation, procurement and management solution built in consultation with both asset management institutions and research providers to address the challenges of MiFID II
Clients and partners of multi-asset trading infrastructure provider Object Trading will have immediate Direct Market Access (DMA) to CurveGlobal, when live trading begins at the new interest rate derivatives venue from 26 September.
CurveGloba, co-owned by London Stock Exchange Group, seven major dealer banks and CBOE, is the most recent addition to Object Trading’s global platform. It follows previous announcements of managed services expansions for venues in Canada and Australia.


LSEG announced the CurveGlobal venture in October 2015. It will offer market participants a new interest rate futures liquidity pool, cleared alongside SwapClear's OTC pool, to help generate capital
