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TraditionDATA, the data and information services division of Compagnie Financière Tradition, has launched a range of new foreign exchange (FX) data packages providing clients with access to a wider range of data and analytics.Â
Greater institutional buy-in and anticipated regulatory oversight will support the continued growth of cryptocurrency investing. As the asset class becomes a more mainstream alternative, investor demands for fund performance and secure, professional, timely services will rise.
Aquis Exchange, an operator of pan-European equity trading exchanges, is using the QuestDB open source time series database to monitor its institutional exchange in real time.
This partnership enables Aquis Exchange to improve its monitoring and real-time decision-making capabilities with open source software at the core of their infrastructure while reducing costs.
Aquis Exchange, authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers, has chosen to rely on open source technology to track infrastructure, business, and market data. QuestDB allows Aquis to store, aggregate, and chart all those metrics in real-time with high throughput
Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched a new end-to-end managed service solution to allow European asset managers to meeting their compliance obligations for the upcoming Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
From 1 January, 2023, SFDR requires asset managers to consider and disclose in a consistent manner how ESG factors are adopted in their decision-making processes. For Articles 8 and 9 funds, this includes a Pre-contractual Disclosure (PCD), Periodic Disclosure (PD) and Website Disclosure (WD).
Additionally, starting 30 June, 2023, asset managers will also be required to produce a Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) statement to determine the impact of their investment
Options Technology, a capital markets services provider, has achieved VMware Cloud Verified status in TR2 Toronto. The accomplishment follows the VMware Cloud Provider Principal Partner Status awarded to the firm last year. Options also holds Cloud Verified status at NJ2, PRDC, LHC, LD4 and NY5 sites.
Cloud Verification assures that a partner is validated to expertly deliver cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service across VMware’s best-in-class network, storage, and compute solutions to meet specific individual client needs.
It also enables customers to achieve unmatched consistency, performance, and interoperability levels for traditional and containerised enterprise applications based on the most advanced VMware cloud technologies.
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Unicorn Strategic Partners (UnicornSP), a distribution partner to asset managers, and iCapital, a global fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, have formed a partnership to distribute private market and hedge fund investments to financial advisors in Latin America and intermediaries in the US servicing non-resident LATAM clients.
UnicornSP will serve as a local distribution partner and product specialist introducing funds available on the iCapital flagship platform to wealth managers in the region. To ensure comprehensive market coverage, UnicornSP will add new senior hires fully dedicated to private markets to its teams in Argentina, Brazil,
Qontigo, a provider of risk, analytics, and index solutions, has partnered with Ortec Finance, a global provider of technology and solutions for risk and return management, to provide climate stress testing capabilities within Qontigo’s Axioma Risk.
With increasing regulatory pressures worldwide, asset managers and asset owners require more robust insights into their exposures to climate risk. Through combining Ortec Finance’s state of the art climate risk-aware economic and financial scenarios with Qontigo’s unique portfolio management and risk analysis solutions, clients can seamlessly translate climate transition scenarios to their portfolios to assess exposure and climate resilience.
Ortec Finance’s Climate MAPS
Carrara Capital has appointed SS&C GlobeOp as its fund administrator for its new multi-strategy fund, the Carrara Global Opportunities Fund, which launched earlier this year.
Carrara Capital will use SS&C GlobeOp’s extensive suite of hedge fund services, including fund administration, investor services (including AML), Australia tax management and FATCA/CRS Reporting.
SS&C’s local team will oversee services for the fund, which aims to generate consistent risk-adjusted returns investing across currencies, fixed income, global equities, credit and private opportunities.
Alveo, a provider of cloud-based market data management services, has extended it data operations solution Ops360 including standard integration with QuantLib for advanced analytics.
With the new functionality, any appropriately permissioned business user can simply drag and drop input data sets into functions and set parameters to derive data and kick off the calculation of curves and risk factors. No coding is needed and the process is interactive. Users can add sources, tweak parameters before promoting a given calculation to production and anchoring it in an operational workflow in, for instance, financial modelling, valuation, product control, margin calculation or market
Apex Group, a global financial services provider, has selected the Enfusion platform to enhance the delivery of middle-office services to its global fund administration client base. Enfusion is a provider of cloud-native software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for hedge funds and asset managers.
Apex Group will utilise Enfusion’s software for cash and position reconciliation, corporate actions processing and verification, trade affirmation and break resolution, shadow NAV calculations and reporting, and more as part of its middle-office offering.
As a leading multi-asset class front-to-back-office SaaS platform, Enfusion is a natural fit for the middle-office services Apex Group provides for buy-side institutions such as
