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Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has launched the T-Monolix Arena Private Cloud Service, aimed at asset managers in Japan.
Arena Private is the only service in Japan designed to host all IT applications and tailored to the specific investment vehicles of asset managers.
Arena Private is a part of the NRI T-STAR product suite, the proprietary technology solutions which offer more than 100 asset management firms and pension funds complete front-to-back office support. The private cloud technology provides a seamless connection between investment managers’ infrastructures and NRI’s industry standard infrastructure service, T-STAR, as well as third-party data vendors and BPO
Bull Moose Derivatives, a trading firm offering direct market access to London’s derivatives traders and managed futures accounts, has partnered with Paris-based trading arcade Krechendo Trading.
While both firms will continue to operate as independent companies, they will combine services across market access and trader training.
Krechendo’s traders will have access to Bull Moose’s umbrella account system, which provides traders with access to over 20 futures and options exchanges, wherever they are in the world.
The combined firm is also set to launch its first futures asset management account, run by a small team of the firm’s top
UBS has used The Solactive Guru Index (GURU) as the underlying index for an open end index certificate listed on the Frankfurt and Stuttgart stock exchanges.
The Solactive Guru Index tracks the price movements of the top US listed equity holdings of a group of hedge funds.
The selection is based on 13F Filings, which are publicly available documents that all hedge funds with more than USD100 million in US equity investments are required to report to the SEC on a quarterly basis.
The objective of the index is to track holdings for which the 13F information is
Liquid Holdings Group has launched Liquid FIRM, a real-time solution that allows firms to actively monitor pre- and post-trade risks at all times across multiple accounts and strategies.
Designed for multi-manager allocation platforms, separately managed accounts (SMAs), clearing firms, prime brokers, family offices and proprietary trading shops, LiquidFIRM provides a macro look at total market exposure across all accounts in real-time, with the ability to drill into the results at the client, asset class, or issue level.
In addition to the solution’s detailed post-trade risk analyses and reporting, LiquidFIRM allows these same firms to observe the fund managers they
Trading in equity options on Euronext NV shares will start trading on the Amsterdam derivatives market on 28 August.
The new options will be listed in the Spotlight Options section, Euronext’s special segment dedicated to the development of new option classes requested by market participants. Spotlight Options give visibility to underlying assets such as newly listed stocks, SMEs and/or assets with notable market events or activity.
Through a combination of liquidity provider support and dedicated promotion by sponsoring brokers, underlying assets are put in the spotlight with short-term maturities options of one, two and three months.
These options
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a no-action letter providing swap execution facilities (SEFs) time-limited, conditional relief from certain data reporting and record-keeping requirements in relation to confirmations required for uncleared swap transactions.
The no-action relief provided will expire at midnight (EDT) on 30 September 2015.
Commission regulation 37.6(b) requires a SEF to provide each counterparty to a transaction entered into on or pursuant to the rules of the SEF with a written record of all terms of the transaction, which supersedes any previous agreement and serves as the confirmation of the transaction.
The DMO
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a time-limited no-action letter it will not take enforcement action against Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL) for failing to register as a derivatives clearing organisation (DCO).
The no-action relief is limited to CCIL’s clearing of Indian Rupee-denominated interest rate swaps and Indian Rupee-denominated forward rate agreements for the proprietary trades of US clearing members.
The no-action relief is effective until the earlier of 31 December 2014, or the date upon which the Commission either registers CCIL as a DCO under Section 5b(a) of the CEA or exempts CCIL from
SQL Power is to integrate its pre-engineered, eSignature ready regulatory platform at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA).
The solution will handle collection, analysis, and reporting of prudential returns and entitlements data submitted to CIMA by up to 40,000 of its regulated financial entities, across banking, trusts, insurance and hedge fund categories, and will unify and streamline CIMA’s regulatory operations across all sectors.
“The best regulatory software in the world meets one of the most complex and sophisticated regulatory business models in the world…and we welcome the challenge,” says Sam Selim, president and SQL Power co-founder. “We’ll be displacing
Private financial cloud provider Options has completed the expansion of its hosting platform into the NYSE, NYSE MKT, Arca, Arca Options and Amex Options exchange colocation facility in Mahwah.
This latest expansion will allow Options customers to leverage exchange colocation services, using a single provider, for every lit and dark equity and options market in the US.
Options’ Mahwah hosting is underpinned by the firm’s Velocity platform, the IaaS provider’s ultra-low latency market data, connectivity and application hosting service, which will see the firm allow quantitative trading and market making operations to deploy the most latency sensitive trading strategies
Accelerate Product Partners has launched a video due diligence platform – accelerateproduct.com – for accredited investors and alternative funds.
Accelerate gives investors the ability to anonymously access, view, search and share detailed video interviews of top-tier fund managers (issuers).
Once an investor member is ready to reveal their identity and establish direct contact with an issuer they can do so via the simple click of a button.
Alexis Graham, co-founder of Accelerate and 20-year hedge fund industry veteran, says: “accelerateproduct.com emerged after many years of conversation with institutional investors who conduct due diligence for a living and are always in search of new opportunities yet are tired
