Davidson Kempner Capital Management (Davidson Kempner), a global investment management firm with more than $38 billion in assets under management, is partnering with CAIS, an alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, to provide access to certain alternative investment strategies via the CAIS Platform, including multi-strategy and opportunistic. The announcement coincides with public market assets generating some of the lowest annual performances for the 60/40 portfolio in the last 20 years.  With investors increasingly turning to alternatives to provide a strong hedge against inflation, which rose even further in August, a CAIS-led survey of financial professionals in 2022 found that

Linedata, a global provider of asset management and credit technology, data, and services, has partnered with Liquid Mercury to providing global buy side asset managers with institutional grade access to crypto and digital asset order execution.  Linedata is leveraging Liquid Mercury’s order execution management system.   A recent report commissioned by Linedata highlighted a clear shift in traditional asset managers seeking more exposure to digital assets, following the lead of private equity, VC and alternative managers. Eighty three per cent agreed or strongly agreed that offering crypto assets is a competitive advantage and 68% agreed or strongly agreed on the

Broadridge Financial Solutions has formed a new partnership with Coinbase to offer interoperability between Coinbase Prime and Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions’ NYFIX order-routing network. Coinbase Prime is a comprehensive solution that provides an advanced trading platform, secure custody and prime services to manage crypto assets in one place. Coinbase Prime not only offers aggregated access to the majority of the market’s crypto liquidity via a market-leading smart order router, but also provides full prime brokerage capabilities to the buy-side. This integrated solution allows all NYFIX clients to route order flow to Coinbase Prime via FIX, an industry standard protocol.

ACA Group, a global provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions to clients in the financial services industry, has launched a dedicated outsourced chief compliance officer (OCCO) practice for the financial services industry. 

Apex Group, a global financial services provider, is expanding its business in the Nordics region, with the launch new services delivered from its office in Sweden.

Liquidnet, a technology-driven agency execution specialist, has become a member of Sustainable Trading, a non-profit membership network dedicated to transforming environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices within the financial markets trading industry. This announcement solidifies the wider TP ICAP Group ambition to be the broker for the energy transition. In April 2022, the Group set new ESG targets including a commitment to being Net Zero by 2026 across Scope 1 (direct emissions from its own operations) and Scope 2 (indirect emissions including purchased/acquired electricity). Sustainable Trading brings firms together to devise practical and sustainable solutions to industry-specific ESG issues as

Alternative Data, Research, and Technology provider, CloudQuant, has partnered with SIX, a global provider of business-critical financial information, to deliver its high-quality financial datasets via the Liberator Data Warehouse and Data Fabric solutions. CloudQuant will integrate several unique datasets including SIX ESG Performance Data, Market and Reference Data, and complex US Tax data for IRS Section 871(m) and Section 1446(f) ahead of the 2023/2024 tax changes that pose a new challenge for non-US participants trading in the market. SIX data will be available in the CloudQuant Data Marketplace, which showcases over 15,000 unique datasets. The partnership with CloudQuant and SIX

Alveo, a provider of financial data management solutions, has announced the general availability of Prime Cloud, a major new release of its core data management platform Prime. Prime is a scalable, end-to-end solution for the sourcing, mastering, quality management, access, distribution, analytics and ROI improvement of financial data. Prime Cloud offers a cloud-native, containerised version of Prime based on a microservices architecture using open-source components including Apache Cassandra as its time series database. Prime’s rich ecosystem of data management services helps companies onboard and incorporate new data sources, monitor and improve data quality, manage data workflows, track data usage, provision