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Guernsey’s position as a leading centre for Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) transactions was underlined at a thought leadership event in London on Wednesday.
Hosted by Guernsey Finance, ‘ILS Insight London’ attracted more than 140 delegates and featured two panel sessions with ILS experts from Guernsey, the UK and mainland Europe sharing their expertise and insights into this fast developing asset class.
Dominic Wheatley, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry, says the event was particularly timely as it coincided with the announcement by George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, that the UK was committed
Eze Software Group has completed a series of enhancements to its portfolio accounting and reporting system, Tradar PMS, improving asset class coverage across instruments and regions.
The latest additions are part of Eze Software’s drive to streamline investment managers’ workflows and increase operational efficiency through tighter integration between Eze Software applications. The continued investment in Tradar PMS has been well-received by the market. Sales increased nearly 40% in 2014 over 2013, and the PMS client base is larger than ever.
Eze Software has significantly enhanced support for trading FX non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) with improved trade workflows, support for the new
Clarient Entity Hub, a new service designed to simplify client data and document management, is now live and operational with five of the world’s leading banks and asset managers inc
MUGC Lux Management, the management company of Mitsubishi UFJ Global Custody, has implemented Linedata AIFMD Regulatory Reporting.
Currently, MUGC Lux management manages around 185 alternative investment funds (Cayman trusts and Luxemburgish structures). Therefore, it is the second largest Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) in Luxembourg, representing 10% of the Alternative Investment Assets under Management in Luxembourg in 2014. MUGC LM approach is to provide one stop shop solution in combination with MUGC to its clients.
The asset management industry continues to face enhanced complexities through the introduction of sophisticated investments, complex instruments and strategies, exposure and collateral management and
Novus, a portfolio analytics and intelligence platform that helps institutional investors analyse their portfolios, has released an updated Hedge Fund Overlap Matrix, a free interactive tool that allows users to access public holdings data.
This tool is updated every quarter with the latest holdings information.
The overlap matrix is an interactive visualisation that provides users with an innovative way to explore manager portfolios. Overlap is a measure of similarity between portfolios; and the matrix is a collection of 2500 overlap values. Behind each overlap value are securities that are shared by the two intersecting managers. The visualisations enable users to
Asia Pacific Stock Exchange (APX) has gone live with its new trading platform powered by Nasdaq's X-stream Trading technology, as well as Genium FIX to power its APeX trading platform.
The upgrade will strengthen the exchange's technological performance using the most widely-deployed trading technology on the market.
"Nasdaq's X-stream Trading technology has the state-of-the-art capability, robustness and scalability to provide the right trading platform for our growth market as we expand our presence throughout Asia from our Australian base," says David Lawrence APX Chief Operating Officer. "Its deployment is another sign of our commitment to building an industry-leading and groundbreaking,
Orc is to expand coverage of Nasdaq markets to include Nasdaq Futures Inc (NFX), the exchange group's US-based designated contract market (DCM), on its first day of trading.
Through NFX, Nasdaq will expand its commodities business with futures and options on key energy benchmarks including oil, natural gas and U.S. power, which will launch in 2015. Market participants will be able to manage their trading and hedging needs in a cost-efficient manner, using an innovative horizontal clearing solution operated by The Options Clearing Corporation.
"We are dedicated to evolving our Execution Bricks offering and look forward to providing sophisticated and
Trading Technologies (TT) is to introduce connectivity to Nasdaq Futures (NFX), the exchange group's US-based designated contract market (DCM), on day-one of trading through both its TT and X_TRADER platforms.
Through NFX, Nasdaq will expand its commodities business with futures and options on key energy benchmarks including oil, natural gas and U.S. power, which will launch in 2015.
The TT connection to NFX will provide the trading community with more choices for investing in energy derivatives, improving price discovery and providing deeper liquidity. The new link to NFX will give all TT customers across the globe ease of use to tap
OptionsCity has been selected as a preferred independent software vendor for Nasdaq Futures (NFX), the exchange group's US-based designated contract market (DCM).
Through NFX, Nasdaq will expand its commodities business with futures and options on key energy benchmarks including oil, natural gas and U.S. power, which will launch in 2015.
"OptionsCity is the leading software platform for options on futures traded on global futures exchanges," says Hazem Dawani, the CEO and cofounder of OptionsCity. "Supporting Nasdaq Energy Futures offers our clients the ability to find opportunities and execute new trading strategies."
OptionsCity will support Nasdaq energy futures immediately at launch
ASPN Solutions has been named Best Aggregation and Reporting System for its front, middle, and back office technology platform, ASPN in the 2015 Hedgeweek Awards
The winners are determined on a peer review basis whereby institutional and high net worth investors, as well as managers and other industry professionals such as prime brokers, custodians and advisers, elect a 'best in class' system. The award was announced at a ceremony in London’s Mayfair district on 27 February.
Ken Akoundi, President of ASPN Solutions, says: “We are extremely excited that ASPN was recognized as a frontrunner by our peers in the industry.
