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JTC has been granted a registration status by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) as a company service provider pursuant to Article 5 of the Company Service Providers Act, 2013.
The firm can now provide professional services to third parties including corporate entities from the jurisdiction.
As a recognised ‘Company Service Provider’, and as one of the first service providers in Malta to be granted that status, JTC (Malta) Ltd. is now authorised to provide and perform a range of services to support Malta’s growing image as a strong European and international financial centre.
As well as allowing JTC to
Reorg Research, a specialist in distressed debt research, analysis and breaking news, has expanded its operations with the opening of a London office and the addition of two senior journalists in London.
These additions will allow for broader coverage of the European distressed debt, leveraged finance and restructuring industries.
As part of this global expansion, Mario Oliviero joins Reorg Research as Senior Editor after spending more than six years at Debtwire Europe, where he served as deputy editor focusing on stressed and distressed special situations. Prior to Debtwire, Oliviero worked as an analyst for Bloomberg.
Joining Oliviero as Deputy Editor
Eze Software Group, a premier provider of global investment technology, has made several enhancements to its commission management offering.
Eze Software released a new web-based tool, Broker Review, which helps buy-side firms efficiently evaluate their brokers. Broker Review redesigns and unifies the broker evaluation tools previously available in separate products within Eze Software’s commission management offering, putting more control over the broker vote into the buy-side’s hands.
With Broker Review, a buy-side firm can configure its broker vote, allowing the firm’s stakeholders to assess their brokers on selected attributes such as execution, research, and investment ideas. The tool is built
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of alternative asset management solutions, has made IVP Treasury 3.5 available on the cloud, allowing hedge fund managers to track, control and optimise their financing needs across counterparties including Prime Brokers and Custodian banks.
“Hedge funds are moving from a Multi-Prime model of 6-8 PBs to an Opti-Prime model of 2-3 key PB relationships,” says Bijesh Amin, co-founder and managing director at Indus Valley Partners. “This is in response to Prime Brokers scrutinizing their hedge funds clients and in some cases asking funds to move their business away if they are not sufficiently profitable. By using our
Pomerol Partners is a global business intelligence consulting firm that specialises in advanced data visualisations. The firm builds business toolsets, such as dashboards, to help senior executives make informed decisions. While it sounds straightforward, the financial services industry faces such complexity and fragmentation of data that getting a clear picture of what is driving profits up (or down) is nearly impossible.
The data architecture in many global sell-side institutions relies on technology that creates a silo-based approach to data management, as opposed to collaborating with other areas of the business that can lead to unexpected insights.
“The key aspect of
SunGard’s APT solution models market risk, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk across both liquid and illiquid asset classes, supporting regulatory reporting, portfolio optimisation and performance analysis.
According to Dr Laurence Wormald (pictured), COO and head of research APT, SunGard’s asset management business, the focus for hedge fund managers today is on making risk more strategic.
He notes that managers are trying to tell a much better story about how they manage risk to improve their reputation and their asset raising capabilities, as well as helping with the overall performance of their funds.
“We think we can help our clients achieve that because
Euronext has expanded its Spotlight options offering with options on GrandVision. The new products follow the company’s successful IPO on Euronext Amsterdam in February and are available for trading with immediate effect.
The contracts will have short-term maturities of one, two and three months.
In addition, Euronext intends to promote the existing Spotlight option class Altice SA to the standard options segment as of 1 May 2015. The lifetime of these contracts will therefore be extended to 12 months. On 1 May, the September 2015, December 2015 and March 2016 expiry months will be added. The extension to longer
ERI Scientific Beta, the smart beta index provider set up in 2013 by EDHEC-Risk Institute, has announced a new organisation for its Asia-Pacific activities.
Frédéric Ducoulombier becomes Business Development Director Asia ex-Japan and the Middle East. Ducoulombier is a member of the ERI Scientific Beta Executive Committee and Corporate Director of ERI Scientific Beta, the head office of which is located in Singapore.
Paul Hoff remains Business Development Director for Japan and is responsible for ERI Scientific Beta’s Tokyo office.
Ducoulombier is directly responsible for compliance, governance and transparency at ERI Scientific Beta. Frédéric Ducoulombier has spent much of his
To what extent have UCITS and AIFMD created market harmonisation and allowed cross-jurisdiction selling? Answers provided by Christopher Jehan of the Guernsey Investment Fund Association.
Question: How widespread is the ability of a fund in one jurisdiction to sell into another or do for example, non-EU managers struggle to access the European investor base?
Christopher Jehan: To take that in reverse I would say that yes, non-EU managers still struggle to access the European investor base. The advent of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) has certainly improved that for institutional investors but is still limited because the third
“Most people think that of the USD3tn we spend on healthcare in the US, USD1tn is wasted. If we succeeded in taking out that waste and were paid 20 per cent of the cost savings, it’s a USD200bn annual revenue opportunity for. It’s massive,” says Richard A Kimball, Jr, co-founder and CEO of HEXL, a healthcare technology business focused on designing beneficial programs to change the industry incentives and leverage tele-health, home healthcare, preventative care and chronic disease management.
The US healthcare system is dysfunctional and not delivering the value that our society needs. More than two times per
