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Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has formed a strategic partnership to host LiquidityBook’s complete buy-side solution, LBX, in the AbacusFLEX private cloud.
The partnership will offer AbacusFLEX clients access to LBX, which brings together order management, portfolio management, trading, network connectivity, compliance, and post-trade processing in one simple and reliable product.
LBX handles orders across asset classes and currencies as well as multiple prime brokers and is accessible 24/7.
LiquidityBook developed LBX to help clients adapt to a constantly evolving market environment by providing a platform that consistently utilises
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 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 Gross, head of content, front office data + services, Deutsche Börse. 


Data is available for 150 instruments across the equity index, interest rate, agriculture, property and volatility derivatives segments. Examples include futures on
Derivatives collateral management cloud technology provider CloudMargin has connected with TriOptima’s triResolve reconciliation service to facilitate OTC portfolio reconciliations.
CloudMargin collates, normalises, enhances and enriches data from a variety of sources and a variety of formats to submit data to triResolve in a timely fashion at minimal cost for clients.
“Clients are increasingly looking for state of the art collateral management systems that can simultaneously help them to comply with their obligations under Dodd-Frank or EMIR, whether that’s reconciling their portfolios, transmitting trade data to repositories, or connecting to clearing brokers,” says Stuart McHardy, managing director of product development and COO
Wilshire Funds Management has chosen InfraHedge to provide an operational and risk solution for the Wilshire managed account platform.
Wilshire has been advising clients on absolute return strategies since the early 1990s and was an early adopter of separately managed accounts for hedge fund investments.
As the managed account market has evolved, Wilshire has refined its platform and selected InfraHedge to provide the next generation of operational and risk infrastructure including daily position-level risk reporting.
“Our managed account platform is an important differentiator as we continue to expand our presence as a premier provider of hedge fund advisory
Cracking the block market is a tall order and has been for the past decade, TABB Group says in new research.
Although buy-side firms trading equities have continued to value block trading, there’s been a significant gap between what could trade as a block, the amount the buy side wants to trade in blocks and the actual block numbers – a gap that has persisted despite a number of efforts to “crack the code”, each with inherent limits.
To facilitate block trading successfully, says Sayena Mostowfi, senior analyst at TABB who wrote the new report, “Equity Market Structure: Stumbling
Alternative investment marketplace FNEX has teamed up with PENSCO Trust Company to enable PENSCO clients and their advisors to access FNEX.com through their PENSCO accounts.
Through this partnership, investors and financial advisors who custody with PENSCO will be able to source, review and invest in a variety of alternative investments.
Launched in September 2013, FNEX.com is a web-based platform that provides accredited investors, investment advisors, family offices and institutions access to private investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the US. The distribution platform lists offerings and provides investors with the necessary tools to educate themselves on
Private financial cloud provider Options has completed the upgrade of the route between its venues in Savvis Weehawken, New Jersey (NJ2) and Equinix Secaucus, New Jersey (NY4).
The newly upgraded link uses the fastest fibre path available, reduces round-trip latency on the route by 36 per cent and will further complement the firm’s wireless connectivity, in addition to providing tailored balances of speed, availability and cost.
This latest announcement follows a busy 12 months on the connectivity front for Options that saw the firm add Quincy Data’s Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service, enabling the managed service provider to offer
Nomura Asset Management has migrated its Japanese equity business onto the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS), and is expanding its use across the firm's domestic and international fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives operations.
A client since 2008, Nomura users worldwide benefit from Charles River's single, integrated solution for equity portfolio management, trading and real-time compliance monitoring.
"Charles River IMS is a scalable, multi-asset, multi-currency solution that consolidates numerous systems at Nomura into a global platform," says Masanao Tsuda, senior managing director, IT strategy and management, Nomura Asset Management. "It is a strategic choice to use
ALT Xchange Ltd (ALTX Uganda) is to operate a securities and derivatives market, initially in Uganda, to service the East African region.
ALTX Uganda will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mauritius-based ALTX Africa Group, which will be fully incorporated this month.
ALTX also intends to develop a pan African footprint, providing a set of additional operating exchanges to facilitate both trading and clearing across the continent.
The board of the Capital Markets Authority of Uganda granted approval for ALTX Uganda’s application to operate an exchange in Uganda in March 2014.
ALTX is also planning the
Interactive Brokers will offer trading on TOM, a trading venue in The Netherlands, to its brokerage clients as of 24 March 2014.
Clients will be able to trade directly on TOM in derivatives.
With the connection of Interactive Brokers, more than 50 per cent of the Dutch retail flow is executed via TOM.
Willem Meijer, CEO of TOM (The Order Machine), says: "The decision of Interactive Brokers to offer our market to their clients is an important confirmation of our success. After our launch 1.5 years ago TOM has created a highly liquid derivatives market with significant volumes
