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IT service company Virtusa Corporation’s CSalt solution now integrates with Investor Analytics’ risk platform to streamline and simplify Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) Annex IV reporting.
Both companies are committed to easing the burdens of alternative investment advisors and those that support them, and this integration will give alternative investment fund managers a single place to easily import, map and transform data in order to fulfil the requirements of AIFMD and Annex IV.
“Since we first unveiled CSalt in early 2013, we’ve worked closely with advisors and compliance consultants to ensure that the solution meets their exact requirements,”
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has introduced real-time analytics for the most liquid futures contracts traded on Eurex.
Eurex Real-time Analytics provides market participants with in-depth trade and order information based on the full Eurex order book for the first time.
“Market participants require more sophisticated information in order to make better trading and risk management decisions. Eurex Real-time Analytics provides investors and analysts with greater insight to help them evaluate market activity and trends,” says Georg Gross, head of information, Market Data + Services, Deutsche Börse. 


The information currently comprises more than 25 order- and trade-related
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has cleared more than USD3 billion notional worth of Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) and Thai Baht (THB) non-deliverable interest rate swaps (NDIRS) since its launch on 7 April 2014.
This new asset class, with net interest payment settled in US dollars, has been actively traded in the over-the-counter (OTC) markets in Singapore and in the region.
The clearing of both MYR and THB NDIRS, with trade maturities of up to 10 years, further strengthens SGX’s suite of OTC financial derivatives which includes interest rate swaps (IRS) in Singapore Dollar (SGD) and US Dollar as well as non-deliverable
Less than a third (28 per cent) of European financial industry participants believe that European equity markets are currently fair for all, and almost twice as many (28 per cent) believe that high frequency trading (HFT) is harmful as believe it is helpful (14 per cent).
That’s according to ConvergEx Group’s European Equity Market Structure Survey, which explores the concerns and actions of financial industry participants regarding HFT, regulatory oversight and market stability.
Despite these concerns, more than two-thirds (67 per cent) report that they have not made any changes to the way they interact with markets.
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BNP Paribas is the latest member on the TOM (The Order Machine) MTF derivatives market.
TOM MTF currently has a stable market share in the Netherlands of around 30 per cent, a figure the firm expects to grow to 40 to 50 per cent later this year.
Currently more than 50 per cent of the Dutch retail flow is executed on TOM MTF.
Willem Meijer, chief executive of TOM, says: “We are delighted that an institutional firm with the international reputation of BNP Paribas will join TOM. The membership of BNP Paribas is a good signal towards both
BlackRock and Tradeweb Markets have formed a strategic alliance to create electronic trading solutions in the rates and derivatives markets.
The Aladdin community, made up of BlackRock and BlackRock Solutions’ clients using Aladdin, the firm’s investment and risk system, will benefit from a fully integrated trading experience.
The alliance will fuse the Tradeweb marketplace with Aladdin to create a combination of order management, pricing, and execution tools providing clients with increased ability to recognise trading opportunities. The alliance will also benefit the broader investment community by bringing enhanced market data and trading tools to Tradeweb clients.
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Hedge funds could reduce computing costs related to portfolio analysis by 50 per cent by switching to an enterprise cloud offering, according to a report from Greenwich Associates (GA).
Cloud Computing for the Buy Side: Moving Beyond the Myths finds that cloud computing and its predecessor technologies have been discussed on Wall Street since the early 1990s with many financial firms adopting variants such as vendor hosted solutions and software as a service offerings to replace local installations.
While these steps towards the cloud brought with them reduced cost and increased efficiency, investors have yet to embrace a broader move
Regulations, operating costs and back office requirements are draining resources that financial institutions need to focus on core strategic initiatives that will help drive growth and profitability.
To address this, firms are increasingly integrating technology service offerings into their software tools, such as hosting, cloud and managed services, to help them better control risks, manage costs and use resources more strategically.
SunGard has identified global trends driving the growing adoption of managed services to help firms build smarter operations over the next 12 to 18 months:
1. Multi-system environments and siloed infrastructures can slow innovation and hinder go-to
Indus Valley Partners (IVP) has launched IVP Managed Services, an enterprise data management service specifically for alternative asset managers.
IVP Managed Services will oversee and manage a fund’s entire data lifecycle which includes all security/reference data, reconciliations and external reporting.
IVP Managed Services will enable funds to gather, scrub, organise and distribute their data on a daily basis to all relevant parties both internal and external to the fund, while monitoring alerts/exceptions and performing business validation of that data.
“Cost concerns from increased regulation and pressure on fees, and the need to focus more on generating insight from
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has launched Eurex Order by Order, a new information product that makes available the entire Eurex order book for benchmark futures for the first time.
Eurex Exchange, owned by Deutsche Börse, is an international derivatives marketplace that offers more than 1,900 products across a growing range of asset classes. Overall trading volume in 2013 totalled 1.6 billion contracts.
“Eurex Order by Order provides customers the most granular trade and order data possible for Eurex’s benchmark contracts. This complete transparency benefits institutional investors who rely on enhanced market information to execute trades,” says Georg
