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S&P Capital IQ, a business unit of McGraw Hill Financial, and Kuberre Systems have launched a tool for traders, market makers and portfolio managers which offers real-time alerts about relevant news and information affecting investment holdings.
The new product, Event Fusion, draws from disparate data sources, culling out news about events that users deem relevant and providing actionable real-time notifications over a wide range of preferred devices.
Event Fusion offers a simple process for incorporating market data or news feed subscriptions and bundling them with social media or other unstructured data sources. In addition, with technology developed by Kuberre,
Marketing agency DotComWebDesign is adding a dedicated hedge fund marketing service to its business, with the aim of helping clients exploit the greater marketing freedoms introduced by the JOBS Act.
With the addition of this new division, DotComWebDesign hopes to service the full range of hedge funds, interested in strategic marketing services.
Offering everything from custom web design, to integrated PPC/SEO, DotComWebDesign sees itself as a ‘one stop shop for the modern hedge fund’.
Hedge Connection, a platform for connecting investment managers and accredited investors, has launched a suite of new services to facilitate capital raising.
Hedge Connection's Capital Club offers enhanced investor introductions, Alpha Ten spotlights funds for investors, and Hedge Connection offers manager presentation videos.
"Hedge Connection was founded almost 10 years ago, and continues to innovatively solve problems for the alternatives industry," says CEO Lisa Vioni. "Our Capital Club is the most powerful and cost effective online introductory service available to fund managers today. Unlike buying a static list of investor information for thousands of dollars, payment by managers using the
Global bitcoin-gold platform DigitalTangible has expanded its offerings into Asia with new partner Melotic, allowing customers to trade their bitcoin and gold on the new Chinese crypto-gold trading platform.
DigitalTangible offers the fine 1 oz Pamp Suisse physical Gold bars for trading on Melotic’s commodities markets.
DigitalTangible allows investors to convert all their gold holdings into digital money for global transmission and redemption anywhere bitcoin is accepted and used.
Customers can use Melotic’s interface to deliver new liquidity options. DigitalTangible customers trading on Melotic will pay transactions fees ranging from 0.05 per cent to 0.25 per cent, a
Global capital markets trading is being re-architected, led by a cost-conscious mix of hardware, software, data and fewer people, according to research by TABB Group.
Driving this change are regulation-induced automation, particularly in fixed income and interest rate derivatives trading, new governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements and disruptive technical innovation.
“Nowhere in the global capital markets ecosystem can this transformation be seen as vividly than in data-centres,” says Paul Rowady, a TABB principal, director of data and analytics (DnA) research and author of “Capital Markets Datacenter Topology: Velvet Rope and the Boneyard,” which details which data centres are
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) is to widen the scope of its implementation of direct connectivity to the Target-2 Securities (T2S) platform.
T2S will provide participating central securities depositories with a single platform to which they may opt to outsource their securities settlement and position-keeping.
It will operate under a single set of harmonised operating rules and business processes aimed at bringing down barriers to cross-border post-trade activities in Europe.
When the first wave of T2S is launched in Italy and Switzerland in June 2015, SGSS, which has a long-standing presence in the major markets of the future
Makor Group, a brokerage serving hedge funds and institutional clients from offices in five financial centres, has placed a five-year corporate bond listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The financing will underpin further expansion for Makor, following its recent acquisition of New York brokerage Oscar Gruss and Son and senior hires including Nicolas Marmurek, Ian Brenner and Mark Edwards to London cash equity sales.
The bond has a maturity of five years with a yield of 7.5 per cent, due semi-annually. The placing was oversubscribed, with investors drawn from a range of institutional and private clients.
Makor Group’s
Abacus Group has launched the Abacus Client Portal to give its hedge fund and private equity fund clients greater control and transparency into AbacusFLEX services.
The new service allows clients to quickly access informative data for resources being used for each subscribed service, customise monitoring and alerts, and easily communicate with Abacus Group.
Developed based on customer feedback, the Abacus Client Portal is specifically designed to help investment firms gain full visibility into Abacus private cloud environments. The authorised users from each client can drill down into multiple aspects of their Abacus private cloud to view individual user accounts,
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A survey published by Deutsche Bank in September 2014, entitled From Alternatives to Mainstream Part Two, found that the US alternative mutual fund industry has experienced 38 per cent annualized growth since 2008. The survey predicts that it has the potential to become 6 per cent of the USD15tn US mutual fund industry by 2019; total assets exceeded USD300bn in May 2014.
There are many factors driving convergence between traditional and alternative fund managers; key among them is investor demand for regulated, transparent
GBST has worked with Omgeo to develop and certify its Syn~ application with Omgeo’s Central Trade Manager (CTM).
The next generation GBST Syn~ application, an adaptable, workflow driven and easily integrated, rules-based solution, now provides clients with Omgeo CTM connectivity, providing an automated solution for the central matching of cross-border and domestic transactions.
Market participants are increasingly under pressure to lower costs and increase operational efficiency in today’s challenging economic environment. By pairing Omgeo CTM with GBST Syn~’s powerful workflow capabilities, clients can increase same-day affirmation rates, reduce costly manual intervention, and minimise exceptions and user intervention, even for
